Re: JCL(?) question

[Dennis Lovelady <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI, Stephanie:

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, 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.

It's OK; we allow up to two free questions from mainfraimers before they
either are converted or hunted down and killed.  :^)

> // 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)?

Ah.  You're dealing with S/36 Environment.  The techinque of ?F'xxxx'? is
a parameter substitution technique.  I don't remember what the A attribute
is for sure, but I think it's "active number of records in file."  The
",XYINTRAP" indicates which file the A attribute relates to.

HTH
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