RE: JCL(?) question

You need the System 36 Environment reference manual.  You are running S36
programs on the 400 not native 400 programs.  What the "RECORDS" parameter
does it create the temporary work file with the number of records from the
file named in the parameter ?F'A,XYINTRAP'? which must have been empty.  The
book I have here is V2 System Reference for the System/36 Environment
SC41-9662.  This book has help me to learn the OLD stuff.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephanie Coulshaw [mailto:scoulshaw@aimtronics.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:56 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: JCL(?) question


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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