On size error truncation or no effect Please take a look at the following question and clarify if the truncation would occur or there will be no change in value of second Variable VAR2 Two variables declared as below in COBOL program 01Â VAR1Â PICÂ 9(2) VALUE IS 20 01Â VAR2Â PICÂ 9(3) VALUE IS 990 ADDÂ VAR1Â TOÂ VAR2Â ON SIZE ERROR DISPLAY ‘ON […]
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SQL CODE -029 SQL select statement in a programming language is missing INTO clause. Add INTO clause to hold the results of the sql select statement in the host language (COBOL). Click the +1 button  below to share it with your friends and colleagues Share this if you liked it! Disclaimer
Mon, 12/10/2012 – 16:30 #1 Writing 2 output from one Sort I would like to write an output file containing a certain sort criteria and would like the remaining records that do not fit the criteria to be written to another dataset. How should that be written? Click the +1 button  below to share it
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FTP file to from mainframe in Batch I know the process of FTP of a file to/from mainframe using DOS command line FTP command, is it possible to FTP the files in batch using a JCL on mainframe. Thanks!! “; ; ; ;
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Finding the Length of a string I have to find the length of a string. Lets say the variable is defined as 01 WS-EMP-NAME PIC X(20). Now this employee name may have a name as small as “DEEPAK” so if I find the length of this variable using COMPUTE LENGTH OF WS-EMP-NAME then I would get
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Edited Numeric item not getting initialized I have defined a group variable in a COBOL program as Now I moves the following values to VAR1, VAR2 and VAR3 respectively. “; ; ; ; After this move I am initializing the group variable GROUP-VAR by the following statement INITIALIZE GROUP-VAR REPLACING NUMERIC BY ZEROSÂ But when
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How to send sms from mainframe As with the case with most of the US clients the production cycle starts very early in the morning for India folks and a monitoring group is needed to monitor the cycle constantly. There are instances when due to some issues there is abend in the cycle and the monitoring person is
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What is file status 9 and status key 13 in VSAM? I am getting an error while accessing a VSAM file in COBOLÂ program, When I debug I found that the file status and status key as 9 and 13 respectively. I am new to mainframes and I am unable to figure out what could
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How to convert a VSAM file to flat file? I have a VSAM file and I have to transfer (FTP) the file to a PC, now I do not know if I can transfer the VSAM file directly, one friend told me that I have to convert it to flat file. How do we convert it to
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Restart a step in Nested Proc Procs can be nested to a maximum level of 15, Also we can restart from a step in a proc from a JCL. I was wondering whether its possible to restart a step in the nested proc “; ; ; ;
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