Re: JCL(?) question

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)?

The CL manual will be of no value for this situation, as the above is a
S/36 OCL command that says.... Insert the number of records count from
the file XYINTRAP as the file size for this new file named XYADROUT 
which would be appear to be a addrout file from a prior sort or maybe
this is a statement in a sort.... I am guessing this a sort, so in 
order to make this work, put a value in the RECORDS-50000 or whatever
is big enough to hold the file... What is happening is the file,XYINTRAP
appears to be empty, so the passed count is 0000000, which is causing
the failure. I may have explained this very badly, but if you are still
lost, send me a personal note, and I'll try to help you through it....

The suspect file XYINTRAP is proably on the statement above the one you
copied on your message... somthing along the lines of:

// FILE NAME-INPUT,LABEL-XYINTRAP,DISP-SHR

but it could appear ANYWHERE above the OUTPUT statement....
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