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vanight · Beginner Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 4 Topics: 3

Hello. I am new to this forum and new to JCL. If anyone can help me with these self study questions I found, that would be great! Also, any links to free tutors or CBTs for COBOl/JCL/VSAM ect.. would be helpful. I dont have money to spend on a bunch of books so trying to find free resources.

Thanks for any help!! Here are the questions:

1. You have a flat (sequential) file that needs to be used to load a VSAM file that has an Alternate index. With JCL how would you do this?

2. In a job you have 10 steps. You want to process steps 1-6 and steps 9 and 10, based on the return code from step 6 How would you achieve this?

warp5 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 1:11 am Post subject:

To 1:
You could use IDCAMS Repro to load the dataset, then define and build the alternate index. You should always load the dataset first and then build the alternate index - the fastest way.

Dibakar · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:21 am Post subject:

To 2: