Job statement is the main section or Procedure division of the easytrieve.
Let us see the different types of JOB statements.
JOB INPUT NULL
If you want to process the files yourself and you dont want the Easytrieve to read/match files for you, please use JOB INPUT NULL.
e.g,
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7-- LIST ON FILE INFILE FB(80 200) IN-REC 1 80 A FILE OUTFILE FB(80 200) OUT-REC 1 80 A * WS-COUNT W 4 N VALUE 0 * JOB INPUT NULL GET INFILE DO WHILE NOT EOF INFILE PUT OUTFILE FROM INFILE WS-COUNT = WS-COUNT + 1 GET INFILE END-DO DISPLAY WS-COUNT ' RECORDS WRITTEN' STOP
JOB INPUT
In the above case, if you want the input file to be automatically read, record by record, use the below format
JOB INPUT
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7-- LIST ON FILE INFILE FB(80 200) IN-REC 1 80 A FILE OUTFILE FB(80 200) OUT-REC 1 80 A * WS-COUNT W 4 N VALUE 0 * JOB INPUT INFILE PUT OUTFILE FROM INFILE GO TO JOB DISPLAY WS-COUNT ' RECORDS WRITTEN' STOP
In the above program, the JOB statement automatically reads a record from INFILE, each time it executes. But what the GO TO JOB is doing?
It is looping the program to read all the records from the INFILE until End of the file. Otherwise, the STOP statement will terminate the program after the first record itself. There is another smarter way to achieve this.
JOB INPUT … END
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7-- LIST ON FILE INFILE FB(80 200) IN-REC 1 80 A FILE OUTFILE FB(80 200) OUT-REC 1 80 A * WS-COUNT W 4 N VALUE 0 * JOB INPUT INFILE PUT OUTFILE FROM INFILE END DISPLAY WS-COUNT ' RECORDS WRITTEN' STOP
The END statement makes the code to look better. It still reads all the records from INFILE and writes to OUTFILE.
File matching : Synchronized files
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7--
LIST ON
FILE FILE1
F1-REC 1 50 A
F1-KEY 1 2 A
FILE FILE2
F2-REC 1 50 A
F2-KEY 7 2 A
FILE OUTFILE
OUT-REC 1 50 A
JOB INPUT (FILE1 KEY(F1-KEY) FILE2 KEY(F2-KEY))
IF MATCHED
PUT OUTFILE FROM FILE2
END-IF
GO TO JOB
Use this code 
list on ?? could you please tell why list on is used??
Hi Kiran,
LIST ON specifies that all subsequent program statements are to be printed in SYSPRINT (this is the default option).
LIST OFF suppresses the printing of statements.
thanks for your response.
the above code is not working i.e
LIST ON FILE INFILE FB(80 200)
IN-REC 1 80 A
FILE OUTFILE FB(80 200)
OUT-REC 1 80 A
* WS-COUNT W 4 N VALUE 0
* JOB INPUT INFILE
PUT OUTFILE FROM INFILE
GO TO JOB
DISPLAY WS-COUNT ‘ RECORDS WRITTEN’
STOP
After sub the job the return code is zero, but ‘records written’ is not displayed. I guess display to be return before go to job statement.
Hi Kiranmayi,
The DISPLAY statement in your program will never execute. Once the End of INFILE is reached, the program terminates. If you give the DISPLAY statement before the GOTO JOB statement, it will be displayed for every record written to output file.
You can try any of the below ways to get the record count after writing the records to output file.
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LIST ON
FILE INFILE FB(80 200)
IN-REC 1 80 A
FILE OUTFILE FB(80 200)
OUT-REC 1 80 A
*
WS-COUNT W 4 N VALUE 0
*
JOB INPUT NULL
GET INFILE
DO WHILE EOF INFILE
PUT OUTFILE FROM INFILE
WS-COUNT = WS-COUNT + 1
GET INFILE
END-DO
DISPLAY ‘ RECORDS WRITTEN : ‘ WS-COUNT
STOP
——————————————————————–
or
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LIST ON
FILE INFILE FB(80 200)
IN-REC 1 80 A
FILE OUTFILE FB(80 200)
OUT-REC 1 80 A
*
WS-COUNT W 4 N VALUE 0
*
JOB INPUT INFILE START BEGIN-PROC FINISH FINAL-PROC
PUT OUTFILE FROM INFILE
WS-COUNT = WS-COUNT + 1
GOTO JOB
*
BEGIN-PROC. PROC
DISPLAY ‘ STARTING ..’
END-PROC
*
FINAL-PROC. PROC
DISPLAY ‘ RECORDS WRITTEN : ‘ WS-COUNT
END-PROC
*
——————————————————————–
Hope that helps!
thanks karthik.. its working.. 🙂
Kiranmayi, great! thanks for reading my blog!
Im very much thankful to you karthik..
Im a beginner in easytrieve and i started my journey with our blog.. it is helping me a lot 🙂
I have a JOB INPUT statement and then the file processing statements.
If I do NOT specify GO TO JOB at the end, will not the next record in the file be read by default?
example:
JOB INPUT AAAAAI
BBBBBO-RECORD = AAAAAI-RECORD
PUT BBBBBO
Is it required to specify GO TO JOB here to put all the records in AAAAAI to BBBBBO file?
Hi Tripti,
yes, you need to specify GO TO JOB at the end, so that all the records in the Input file are processed.
I thought job statement will read next record from the driver file even if GO TO JOB is not specified! Are you sure this is wrong?
Tripti, you are right. GO TO JOB is not mandatory for reading next record.
All the below formats of JOB statements process all the records from Input file INFILE.
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*
FILE INFILE
INREC 1 4 A
JOB INPUT INFILE
DISPLAY INREC
*
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*
FILE INFILE
INREC 1 4 A
JOB INPUT INFILE
DISPLAY INREC
END
*
——————————
*
FILE INFILE
INREC 1 4 A
JOB INPUT INFILE
DISPLAY INREC
GO TO JOB
*
Thanks!
Please let me know how to execute a easytrive program thru jcl
Lalitha,
JCL step should look like,
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=EZTPA00
//FILEA DD DSN=FILEA,DISP=SHR
//FILEB DD DSN=FILEB,DISP=SHR
//FILEC DD DSN=FILEC.DIF,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// SPACE=(CYL,(100,50),RLSE),
// DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=5200,BLKSIZE=0)
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
EASYTRIEVE CODE HERE
/*
Hi,
I am a beginner to EASYTRIEVE.
I tried a matching logic but its not working.Can you help:
JOB INPUT (FILEB KEY(IN-POLNUM2) FILEA KEY(IN-POLNUM))
IF MATCHED FILEB FILEA
OUT-MPRFLD1A = IN-MPRFLD1A
OUT-MPRFIXED = 0021
OUT-MPRFLD1-LONG = IN-MPRFLD1-LONG
PUT FILEC
ELSE
OUT-POLNUM = IN-POLNUM2
PUT FILED
END-IF.
GOTO JOB.
I am getting return code 16.
Hi Priyanka,
In the ELSE part (writing FILED), you want the records from FILEB, which do not have matching records in FILEA. Is that correct?
if so, please change the ELSE part as,
ELSE
IF FILEB <—- add this
OUT-POLNUM = IN-POLNUM2
PUT FILED
END-IF <—- and this
END-IF
You need to ensure that the non matching record was coming from FILEB.
Hi Karthik…
I’m new to easytrieve. Actaully i’m trying to compare a field from two input files. I mean 1st input file(File-A) is from the control card and another one is a PS file(File-B). From the control card i have to take 9 digit as a key and compare with File-B’s first field.
When I tried I’m getting the below error.
IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT 699
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=013 REASON CODE=00000034
Could you pls help me on this??
File-A length is:80(Key start pos:10 to 9)
File-B length is:614(Key start pos: 1 to 9)
If matched
Put output from File-B
esle
go to job
end-if.
My Code is:
LIST ON
FILE INPUT1
LISTE 10 9 N
FILE INPUT2
LILI 1 9 N
REM-INPUT 10 605 A
FILE OUTPUT
OUT-REC 1 614 A
*
CNT-INPUT S 6 N MASK ‘ZZZ,ZZ9’
CNT-OUT1 S 6 N MASK ‘ZZZ,ZZ9’
*=============================================================
* START OF MAINLINE PROGRAM:
*=============================================================
JOB INPUT(INPUT1 KEY(LISTE) INPUT2 KEY(LILI)) FINISH ENDPROC
CNT-INPUT = CNT-INPUT + 1
IF MATCHED
CNT-OUT1 = CNT-OUT1 + 1
DISPLAY ‘ OUTPUT : ‘ LILI
PUT OUTPUT FROM INPUT2
ELSE
GO TO JOB
END-IF
*=============================================================
* END OF MAINLINE PROGRAM: (A ‘GO TO JOB’ IS IMPLIED)
*=============================================================
*
ENDPROC. PROC
DISPLAY SKIP 2 ‘Total Input : ‘ CNT-INPUT
DISPLAY SKIP 2 ‘Total Output : ‘ CNT-OUT1
END-PROC
Hi Kartik,
I’m new to easytrieve, i need to pull matched data from mainframe gdg versions, my input will file1- 1 to 17 bytes,file2 1-4410 bytes.
If file1 1-17 matches with any of the version in gdg base of file2 need to pull it to file3.
Is this will be possible and in my file2 i have around some millions of records is this possible and did it take more time to execute as we have more records.
Please let me know your inputs on this and also.i need to reduce execution time too.
Please help.me out on this.(laddu534@gmail.com)
Thanks,
KPS,