Re: JCL(?) question

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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....


actually, you can give it anything reasonable.  the as/400 will make the
extensions.  

like you could say records-10000  and if there were 12,000 records, it
would work.  but you wouldn't want to give it records-100 for a 50,000
record file. 

nj
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