Easytrieve Variables Variable declaration Declaring working storage variables COMP and COMP-3 equivalent variables Variable initialization (VALUE clause) Equivalent functionality for REDEFINES OCCURS Clause (arrays) EDIT MASKS – Masking variables Arithmetic and Logical operators Moving Numeric values between variables PROC and JOB PROC (perform paragraph) JOB Input statement JOB statement with START and FINISH procs Playing with Files File Handling and File Declaration GET and PUT statements READ and WRITE FILE-STATUS and EOF (End of File) Reading VSAM file Update / RE WRITE VSAM file MACROs (Copybook) Using Files as Lookup tables File matching : Synchronized Files Other Important syntax DISPLAY statement IF ELSE ENDIF statement CASE WHEN statement DO WHILE clause GOTO statement SYSDATE and SYSTIME and, a lot more Embedded DB2 SQL and Cursor SORT in Easytrieve Report creation sample Error messages Comment lines Continuation character PDF: http://www.mvsforums.com/manuals/EZT_PL_APP_63_MASTER.pdf Advertisement