Hello and welcome to a new episode of fixing things!
Today we’re going to fix some bad JCL our intern Kevin has made last week. Oh Kevin, such a nice guy but sometimes works way too fast. It’s now up to us, senior developers, to fix his mistakes.
JCL: Identify and Correct a Syntax Error
IBM Master the Mainframe Part Two – Challenge #06
First we navigate to our Z#####.JCL, we can do so by using the primary command dslist jcl, then line command e for edit. Inhere we issue the primary command s p2ch6 to create a new member called p2ch6.
On the screenshot above we copy copy ‘zos.public.jcl(p2ch6)’ to our newly created member.
Our newly created member now has the faulty JCL.
Submit JCL and review JCL job output to identify JCL syntax error
Let’s submit ; =sd ; st so we can see the execution error.
INVALID LABEL. Labels typically begin with //. Do you remember my intro from the previous post? JCL HAS TO BE IN ALL CAPS.
THERE, I FIXED IT! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW MR. COMPILER?
The RC code is 0000. So I think Mr. Compiler is happy.
Review successful completion
Let’s check P2.OUTPUT(#06) and see if has the necessary time strings.
It has! We have completed challenge 6!
Any questions, por favor?
When will you release the rest Kevin? Can you help me with challenge 14 of part 2? Well not now, these blogs take time to write so I’m a lot slower than the competitors. I’m doing my utter best to release these as fast as I can. 7 challenges and blogs in 2 days is what I call good service 😉
Sir could tell me how to fix the error? I am not being able to understand that step.
Thanks in advance.
Just do Capital all the lines in the P2CH6
hey, i fixed all the syntax errors and resubmitted my JCL file, but when i check my P2.output, S (select) my #6 , shows “191213 225943 S0W1” , And in my “Zname”. Status shows incomplete, any thoughts?
Hi Kevin
After I put in the “copy ‘zos.public.jcl(p2ch6)’” command I am unsure on what to do from there. Could you put in clear step by step instructions after that?
Hi Anonymous
After you copy the data into the data member you need to execute it. This can be done using the primary command “submit ; =sd ; st”. Then you need to fix a syntax error.
Kind regards,
-Kevin
Hi Kevin,
I messed with part 02 challenge 06; please tell me how to reinitiate all what I did and restart this challenge from bigenning.
Thank you.
Hi Kevin,
I stuck, I didn’t see how you submitted the JCL and reviewed the error, can’t follow your hints, Would you please show us step by step because I am totally beginner.
Thank you.
Hi,
when i did the command submit ; =sd ; st, it show me no error at all. How do i fix it?
please help me
Hi Anonymous
Did you fix the issue before running?
Kind regards,
– Kevin
I upper cased SYSPRINT and still don’t get the proper result string.
When I paste copy ‘zos.public.jcl(p2ch6)’ in command line. its shows copy pending.
Can you please help
Hi Arman
Is there already text in the file? The file needs to be empty before you can copy data. If there’s data, enter line command dd at line 000001 and line command dd at the very last line of the file and copy again.
Kind regards,
– Kevin
How did you change it to uppercase?
Also need help with this part
Hi
I simply overtyped it in UPPERCASE 🙂
Kind regards,
– Kevin
Hello Kevin,
as I think “then line command b for browse.” needs to be replaced to “then line command e for edit.”, in this case next command will be successful too.
Hi Akos!
Thanks for letting me know, I have changed it 🙂
Kind regards,
– Kevin
THank YOU
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