Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Magesh for your help.

I have seen the output of precompiler. But waht I wanted to say is, we use DCLGEN for COBOL equivialent variables of a Table. But precompiler will not check the COBOL declaration, so does precompile check for table-definition in DCLGEN?

Thanks nicc.

10716 All the copy books mentioned with INCLUDE taken into consideration during per-compilation and all the copy books mentioned with COPY are taken into consideration during compilation But DCLGEN has Cobol variables, if INCLUDE is used on precompile time...what is the use of DCLGEN in precompile ?

JOIN worked for me. As of now I have equal number of records.

enrico-sorichetti wrote: it is a good example on how to write unmaintainable code

Thanks. For REXX, are there some guidelines fr maintainable code? I mean what are good programming practices to keep in mind as I start learning it.

Sorry no it won't work. How would I know where to start second sequence...hmm

Thanks Enrico. That's an advance use of REXX... I'm trying to understand it...

10701 you may remove the "Begin" record in DD Statement, if you have any unique way of identifying 1st and 2nd file. Then you need to adjust IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,BEGIN/KEYBEGIN ? Thanks Magesh. If I know from which file I want the first record in output and keep that file as first in the SO...

enrico-sorichetti wrote: it compiles the pattern, and then executes the result

I am sorry but I did not understand this, What is the meaning of "compiles"?

Thanks for the link. i have started learning REXX and find that link as a good place.

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Hi, I need to create a temporary file for a testing purpose. But creating it is somewhat tricky. I am assuming some SORT expert can help me on this. I basically want to merge values from two input files but the values from input should come in alternate way in the final output file. File 1: AAA BBB ...