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> 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. blah! i always hated it when someone did that at our shop, it invited trouble! (used the records-?F'A stuff). If you change the A to an S, it is the allocated size, rather than the actual size. nj +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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