JCL(?) question

Stephanie,

What you are seeing is some S/36 OCL running, I assume, in the S/36
environment of the AS/400.  The OCL explanation can be found in the
System/36 Environment Reference, Chp 3 - Procedure Control Expressions.

This expression substitutes the actual number of data records in a
database file; and has several cases where 00000000 may be substituted.
They are:

  The file does not exist.
  The file does not have any members.
  The file is allocated exclusively to another job.
  The file is a job (RETAIN-J) file.

LOAD and RUN can also be found in this manual (Chp 5 - OCL statements).

Bruce Vining

>
>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)?
>
>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.
>
>All help greatly appreciated....
>
>Stephanie
>

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