Question { Verizon, 5846 }

What is COUNTERS in PL/1? How to assign the COUNTER
variables? WHich Data Type it can be used for this?

Answer

COUNT is a Builtin in PL/1.

SYNTAX:

I = COUNT (file-name);

EXAMPLE:

I = COUNT (PAYROLL);

It returns the number of data items transfered during the
last GET or PUT of the file PAYROLL.

Question { Bank Of America, 11930 }

I have 2 steps in my exec statement , in first step I am
creating a gdg, and the output of this step is going into
second step as a input, and this second step is abended ,
now how could i approach in this case.

Answer

In my opinion it depends of the abend.
Why was the cause of STEP2 abend? If it was because a bad
file created on STEP1 we should correct the program that
generates the file (on STEP1), uncatlg the bad GDG created,
and then resubmit the job from STEP1.
If the STEP2 cancelled and the input file is good, we should
fix the STEP2 and restart the job from STEP2 using GDG(0).

Question { ADP, 7354 }

If your job fails at particular step then what would be the
return code for next steps

Answer

It depends the COND we have for the subsequent STEPS.