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Hi

How will you pass a data from a cobol program to JCl. Please not it is revesre (not from JCL to cobol).

Thanks
Vel

Write it into a file and use it in another step. If this is not what you wanted then post your requirements clear.

How will you pass a data from a cobol program to JCl.

#1 What do you mean by data?
#2 Why your JCL needs it?
#3 How your COBOL program gets that data?
#4 How do you want to use it in the JCL?

Arun.

Hello,

Data is not passed from cobol code to jcl.

If you describe what you need to accomplish, someone may have a suggestion.

extending the above thoughts only one thing which cand be passed from cobol to jcl is the return code u can set the value fo return code register by moving some value to the it