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The manual says:

If the CMD keyword is omitted from a )BODY statement, ISPF uses the first input field as a default command field. You can specify that you do not want a command field by using CMD( ...

This type of error sort of reminds me of the COBOL divide by zero error. If you hadn't edited properly and perform a statement that causes division by zero, your program abends and you have no way of ...

unless of course, the invoking program issues a CANCEL before subsequent CALLs in which case A would be the result.
Only if the called program was dynamically linked. CANCEL has no effect on a static ...

Try this:

1) DEFINE a tally-field with a PIC of S9(2) COMP.
2) REDEFINE source-field as source-field-X with a PIC of X(17).
3) MOVE SPACES TO target-field.
4) MOVE ZERO TO tally-field.
5) INSPE ...

I believe that you should have gotten FIVE returns for the <EmployerName> Element:
XML-EVENT XML-TEXT

START-OF-ELEMENT EmployerName
CONTENT-CHARACTERS XYZ
CONTENT-CHARACTER < ...

That 'splains it. Thanks, Frank, and Kolusu.

EQUALS is the DEFAULT option with SELECT operator of DFSORT. So you really don't have to code it.

Does that mean that the SELECT operator somehow knows what ALL of the SORT fields are ( not just th ...

kolusu,
Yes, the second statement should have been SORT, not SELECT. Thanks for the correction.
Just out of curiosity, why did you add the EQUALS parameter to the last sort statement, and remove it ...

Unless you will NEED the output of JOB#1, JOB#2, and JOB#3 at some later date/time, I beleive that you can combine all 4 jobs into 1 job by using ICETOOL (note: the following is NOT tested, and only r ...

That was my thinking as well, papadi. That's why I asked to see the sort control statements from each of the four runs - in order to see if "consolidation" might alleviate the need for at le ...

It would help if you provided:
1) The input RECFM and LRECL of the SORTIN file to the DFSORT1 job
2) The SYSIN Sort Statements to the DFSORT1 job
3) The SYSIN Sort Statements to the DFSORT2 job
4) ...

When batch pipes are used, a receiving job must wait until data starts being WRITTEN to the batch pipe before it can start READING data from the batch pipe. Hence, Job#2 cannot start READING until Job ...

Do an internet search for the algorithms related to doing sequential searches ( n = 50 million in your case ) and the algorithms related to doing B+tree searches ( n = 500 million in your case ) and l ...

Well, first you need to understand that the routine, as coded, will ROUND the answer to the nearest SECOND - so if you want milliseconds you will have to NOT do the rounding, else you will end up with ...

@all
The code I posted was cut/aligned/pasted from another board and was NOT posted there enclosed with nice code tags - so multiple spaces appeared in the post as only one space - hence the unfortun ...