Re: JCL(?) question

[Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephanie,

I believe that the line lost something in EBC>ASC translation however the ?F
might have been &F, as such would be a replaceable parm, thats where the zeros
are comming from most likely. What puzzles me though are the //<commands> in a
400 setting although I have never worked on a B10.

Stephanie Coulshaw wrote:

> Hi...
>
> Firstly, bear with my terminology as my experience is mostly with
> mainframes, and I've received no training on the AS/400.
>
> We've got the old B10 here, and we had problems with a batch job that was
> part of our month end.  I've found the proc/JCL that ran this job and there
> is a parameter that I can't resolve, nor can I find reference to this in any
> of the manuals here.  The line is:
>
> // FILE NAME-OUTPUT,LABEL-XYADROUT,RETAIN-J,RECORDS-?F'A,XYINTRAP'?
>
> The records parameter was interpreted as 00000000 when this job ran.  Is
> this some kind of function call to see the size of the input file(which was
> XYINTRAP)?
>
> What manual would this be in?  I've got a Control Language Programmer's
> Guide here but can't find this type of statement.  I didn't find any of the
> actually, nor can I find an explanation for // LOAD, or // RUN, which seem
> obvious, but I'd really like to find the right manual.
>
> All help greatly appreciated....
>
> Stephanie
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