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Thank you Natarajan

Anuj, thank you very much for answering my tomorrow's question

Well...This is not related to any particular (project) requirement. One of my friends asked whether this is possible. i was not sure and hence posted in this forum to know about it.

Is it possible to skip the first step in the Job? I think this can not be achieved by COND. Is there any other way to achieve this? If possible, can a simple example be provided?

Thank you very much Anuj and Frank

Thank you very much Anuj

For Sorting, I have always used JCL Sort so far. When do we use a Program(COBOL/PL1) Sort? Can some one let me know the pros and cons of JCL Sort and Program Sort(COBOL/PL1)?

How to copy a Fixed Length file into a variable length file and vice versa (using JCL)?

Thank you very much Natarajan and Frank Yaeger

Thank you natarajan. Just to understand better, If the requirement is File 1 should contain Student ID 1 - 100 File 2 should contain Student ID 101 - 200 File 3 should contain Student ID greater than 200 i guess (thanks to your reply) the first split is include=(1,6,PD,LE,100) and the third split is...

I need to split records based on a Student ID in such a way that File 1 contains Student IDs from 1 to 100, File 2 contains Student IDs greater than 100. Input file is sorted on Student ID. a) Can any one let me know how this can be accomplished using JCL split, if Student ID is of character datatyp...