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I remember one solution long ago I had put. Dont have COBOL to test it now. Define two variables. one is exactly of double the length of the size of the receiving variable (in your case receiving field is PIC X(40). so this variable will be of PIC X(80).) Define a variable of equal length of...

Hi Why not try using all validation in single loop u will have to put a few If conditions to trap all invalid cases I just build one but u may want to simplify the IF structure if sounds complicated.(I dont feel so as I had worked with far more complex structures in 74 ). offcourse I didnt...

I need this for a job interview. Thanks Devesh

Hi Can anyone give me link to any websites from which I can download the interview Q&A of VB6. i dont want a link to forum/newgroup where I have to go thru multiple pages for a single question. Instead I need a single page with all Q&A. I tried to search on google for 2 hours. but in vain...

Hi Dimandja I tried to search on net. But not able to find a syntax. If you remember even a bit of the syntax post it. I will try to find the rest. Webrabbit so far I am not in position to break the file before FTP. R u saying I can define a file with a record length of 12832K. If yes then...

Hi I tried the solution but it looks like the max reord length which I can define on OS/390 is 32K. So it fails since my record size is > 32K. Is it possible to break the single record in multiple records while pulling the file? devesh

Hi I have a requirement. I need to pull a dataset from UNIX box to OS/390. This dataset has only one records but the size of this record is about 4 megabytes. Is it possible to pull it using FTP or I have to go for some differnt approach. As far my understanding I need to preallocate the...

Thanks all I will be implementing these solution. devesh

Dima Can u tell me What 'Begin return' syntax do? So far I never used it. It will addition to my knowledge. Devesh

Thanks WMK It worked effectively. My OS is OS/390. Thanks once again and here is the star Devesh

Hi all Is it possible to catch the JCL job no. directly in a cobol program or thru any utility in any dataset which can be opened and processed in a subsequent step by a cobol program. devesh

Hi Is that error table necessary? Why not u r storing the messages in a string at the first place. U can write a small procedure which u can call at every place where u r moving the error_message in the error_table. 01 temp string pic x(3000) value spaces. 01 space-delimeter...

Hi The file can have any no. of records. The filename has following pattern DDPCN.LTCARE.DAILY.INPUT.V0001 DDPCN.LTCARE.DAILY.INPUT.V0002 DDPCN.LTCARE.DAILY.INPUT.V0003 . . . . . . . . . DDPCN.LTCARE.DAILY.INPUT.V0400 DDPCN.LTCARE.DAILY.INPUT.V0401 . . . . . . so on... But it is...

Slade, Excellent, This is working man!!! I can now write a COBOL program which will generate the required JCL from it. Catch a star !!!! [thumbsup2] Though I have not tried IEHLIST yet. Its documentation says it works for volumes or PDS but has not mentioned anything for dataset begining with...

Hi all I receive about 400 files via FTP or XCOM or similar services which have first 4 node common. I dont want to hardcode all datasetname in JCL because its not necessary that everytime I will have the same no. of datasets. Again using a GDG is difficult as no. of files well exceeds 400 at...