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Thanks Gene and William.

William - I understand your point for validation.

don't fall into the trap of validating the files only when you receive them. Everything which reads those files must ...

Hi,
Could anybody please help or provide some ideas on how to validate header and trailer records in a mainframe file using generic cobol program?
By Generic program I meant it should process diffe ...

Hi All,

Could you please help me out with the below production issue?

I am currently working on the production issue in which the program is abending with invalid record. The master QSAM file (d ...

Thanks all for the inputs. I have changed the job in one step.

I completely agree with you but thats an existing design. So i can't comment on that.

Hi,
I have a strange SORT problem with the production jcl. A single dataset is being used by 3 different sort steps.
The sort criteria is similar in all the 3 steps. From the last the 3 or 4 days, ...

Hi All,
@Frank: Thanks a million. It works fine.
@Sqlcode : Did not get a chance to to test this one. Thanks a lot for your efforts.

Your quick replies are really appreciated!!!

Hi All,
Thanks for the quick reponses.
@Frank:
Can file1 have 'PART xx' whereas file2 always has 'PART 12', and 'PART 12' in file2 should be changed to 'PART xx' ?

Yes Frank, I want this thi ...

Hi,

Hope I explain well this time. Apologies if I was not in the earlier case.

Input:
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File 1 has below contents: size=80 bytes/FB

<some data> PART 12
<some data> ...

Hi,
The requirement is to update a file using the contents of other.
For example
File 1 has the below contents:

............PART 12....
............................

File 2 has the below ...

Hi bluewawa,

No, I havn't got the solution on this one.

Thanks!!!

Hi All,
@warp5:
Have job a submit job b after it is completed with an iebcopy to internal rdr. I know that a tso job will wait for datasets, maybe you could experiment with that. This would not be p ...

Hi Kolusu,
Appreciate your quick reply.
The job A (Appl A) and job B (Appl B) are ETT triggerred application, So I cannot add the dependency to it.

I am facing KSDS contention problem for a production dataset.The KSDS dataset is being updated by many jobs on a daily basis.

For eg: Job A and Job B are two jobs which updates the KSDS dataset. In ...

Hi,

@Kolusu: I am not specifying any password with the mail id. And I tried both ways i.e. by specifying my own email id and with different email id. For both it still contains the "on behalf ...