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Job SearchAlthough you cannot specify RECORDING MODE V in the SD entry (which does not allow the RECORDING MODE clause), the compiler determines that the records in the new file are of variable length if:
- The input file to the new file has variable-length records.
- The SD includes more than one record description and the records are of different lengths.
- The SD includes a RECORD IS VARYING IN SIZE clause.
If the input file for the new file contains variable-length records, specify the record length that occurs most frequently in the input file (the modal length) on the SMS= control card or in the SORT-MODE-SIZE special register. Use of the SMS control card or SORT-MODE-SIZE special register is optional, but it can improve sort performance.
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Ibm Mainframe Tutorial
- Software Development Life Cycle Phases
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- Introduction To System Security
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- Cics Intersystem Communication
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- Intesystem Communication
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- Cebr Command
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- Bms Map Definition Macros
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- What Is Information ?
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- Database Management System (dbms)
- Why A Database
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- Structured Query Language
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- Part I - Using Db2 In An Application Program
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- Part Iii - Program Preparation
- Part Iv - Db2 And Tso
- Part V - Db2 And Cics
- Relational Databases
- Db2 Objects
- Part Ii - The Optimizer
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- Query Management Facility
- Qmf Overview
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- Database Hierarchies
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- Dl-i Calls
- Segment Search Arguments (ssas)
- Command Codes
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- What Ims Returns To Your Program
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- Cobol Overview
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- Application Developments
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- Defining A Table
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- Searching A Table
- Efficient Coding For Tables
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- Input-output Error Handling Techniques
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- Sort Or Merge Operations
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- Coding The Input Procedure
- Coding The Output Procedure
- Improving Sort Performance With Fastsrt
- SORTING VARIABLE-LENGTH RECORDS
- Passing Control Statements To Dfsort
- Sort Special Registers
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- Reentrant Programs
- Calls Between Vs Cobol Ii And Other Languages
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- Cics
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- Db2 Or Sql-ds
- Interactive System Productivity Facility (ispf)
- Methods Of Compilation
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- Controlling Your Compilation
- Compiler Option Descriptions
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- Overview Of Link-editing
- Creating A Load Module
- Link-edit Options
- Detecting Link-edit Errors
- Re-link-editing Load Modules With Nores Programs
- Basic Execution
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- Mixing Res And Nores Programs With Mixres
- Run-time Errors
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- Mvs-xa And Mvs-esa System Services
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- Optimization
- Options And Tuning Considerations
- Programmer Productivity
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Introduction To Software Development
Introduction To Ibm Mainframes
Mvs Concepts
Tso And Ispf
Jes2, ]es3 And Sms
Introduction To Job Control Language (jcl)
The Job Statement
The Exec Statement
The Job And Exec Statements
The Dd Statement
Procedures And Symbolic Parameters
Generation Data Groups (gdg), Compile/link-edit And Run Jcls
Ibm Utilities
Sam Basics
Access Method Services (ams)
Alternate Index
Additional Vsam Commands
Vsam Tuning
Introduction To Rexx
Overview Of Rexx
Introduction To Cics
Exception Handling In Cics
Program Control
File Control
Terminal Control
Developing A Cics Application
Cics Programming Techniques
Basic Mapping Support (bms)
Transient Data Control
Temporary Storage Control
Interval And Task Control
Cics Application Design
Recovery And Restart
System Security And Intersystem Communication
Cics Debugging Facilities And Techniques
Bms Map Definition Macros And Copylib Members
Cics Response And Abend Codes
Data, Information And Information Processing
Introduction To Database Management Systems
Introduction To Relational Database Management Systems
Database Architecture And Data Modeling
Data Normalization
Overview Of Db2
Structured Query Language (sql)
Data Security And Access
Db2 Application Development
Db2 Internals
Qmf And Db2i
Db2 Performance Monitoring, Utilities And Recovery/restart
Overview Of Information Management System (ims)
Introduction To Vs Cobol Ii
Overview Of Application Development In Vs Cobol Ii
Overview Of The Cobol Program
Data Manipulation
Table Handling
Reference Modification
Input/output Coding
Sorting And Merging Files
Subprogram Linkage
Coding Cobol Programs That Run Under Cics. Ims, Db2 And Ispf
Compiling The Program
Link-editing The Program
Executing The Program
Improving Program Performance
