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Hi, Today, I was going through a JCL and found a GDG having its generation referred to as (-0)! This is being use as an Input to the step. Can anybody tell me what this means? Does JCL interpret this just as a normal "current" generation of GDG? FYI: This JCL is an Old Active JCL. Thanks, TB.

Hi Veesam99, I have recently joined this forum. I have worked in Mainframe environments, CICS, and CICS Web services too which is the same as CICS TS Ver. 2.2 For CICS you cannot get anything for free. You need a licensed product only as far as I know. I think that is the reason this one...

Hi Tony, Could you give the structure for the field "FORMAT1-I-INDIC" in your working storage section?? I think its the line - MOVE ZEROS TO FORMAT1-I-INDIC that may be causing the problem since FORMAT1-I-INDIC is a flag and your loop is dependent on this flag. Now, in the loop itself, you...

Hi Dimandja, Its not the special formatting text that Cobol can read for Word Docs but its the data that has been stored in a file having extension .doc I didnt say Cobol can read these files. Its just that how the data in such files can be converted to a EBCDIC format into flat files which...

Hi C*lady, There are lots of other commands too. I have not used many of these commands which deal with ASCII format files.. but you can give the command - GO CMDCPY in your AS400 session and check them out. After getting the "Copy Commands" menu, give the number/option and press F1 to get...

Hi Crox & Razalas! That was a very valuable post. Just wanted to thank you ppl for that. Thanks, TB.

Hi C*lady, What you are trying to do here is access Word files from you AS400 session. In such as case, the command that you have given here as CPYFRMSTMF basically is used to copy these files (in ASCII format) to the AS400 basic file format (database format). If in case you want to use a...

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