Answer Posted / padminibhaskar

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Explain dfsort utility?

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How can a fb file convert to vb file using sort program?

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What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

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what is the use of JCL?

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What do you understand by the terms: joblib and steplib?

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What are the parameters that are used in creating a gdg?

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I want to JCL sort for Non-COMP and COMP-3 fields SORT FIELDS=(1,5,A,6,11,A,12,11,A,19,1,A,20,1,A),FORMAT=BI,EQUALS Length of comp bytes is 11 bytes which start at 6byte and 12 byte considering 11 bytes in comp-3 is 6 bytes. Can anyone tell if the above sort work SORT FIELDS=(1,5,A,6,6,A,12,6,A,19,1,A,20,1,A),FORMAT=BI,EQUALS does not works OK

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//S10 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //CON DD DSN=VAR.INPUT1,DISP=SHR // DD DSN=VAR.INPUT2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=VAR.OUTPUT,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),UNIT=SYSDA //TOOLIN DD * * Splice the needed data from the two VB files together SPLICE FROM(CON) TO(OUT) ON(5,5,CH) WITHALL - WITH(12,5) WITH(22,20) VLENMAX /*

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Explain how can the disposition of sysout datasets be set for an entire jobstream?

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What is the maximum length of a single line of jcl?

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Must tape dataset definitions include vol=ser specifications?

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We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

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what is DD statement is used in JCL?

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A dd statement consists of 4 fields. Name them?

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Name the parameters which can be used to limit the number of records written to a sysout dataset?

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