How to invoke cobol jobs on mainframes

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

Does any one of you know how to invoke the cobol jobs on mainframes?

Thanks,
Waseem

2

Check out this link for information on how you can do it:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B910/4.12?DT=20010621083253

Mind you I have never done this, but did look into it.  Good luck.
3

Do it this way via ftp:
You need JCL on the mainframe to do the job:
ie.: setup, grab the file, then run whatever on MVS

UNIX side:

[code]
echo "
verbose
open mvsnodename
user username passwd
-- getting mainframe jcl
get 'ISBA.THING.LIB(@THINGIE)' localfile
quote site submit
put localfile
quit
" > /usr/bin/ftp

This requires JES and permissions on the mvs side.

4

To Submit a job on Mainframe, the script file (on Unix) should be like:

user MyUserID MyPassword
quote site filetype=jes
get 'ABC.DEF.GHI.JKL\(MNO\)'
bye

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And run it on Unix like:
ftp -n -i FTPServerName < FTPScriptFile

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Run FTP scripts in batch
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The FTP Server was on a Mainframe - not sure whether that makes difference.
Had to write two kind of jobs - one to get/put files on Windows, and second on Unix - here's what I had to write:

Unix, AIX+ksh:

To run it in the batch:
ftp -n -i FTPServerName < FTPScriptFile

The file is like: FTPScriptFile

user MyUserID MyPassWord
quote site...anything you want - lrecl if you want to exchanage a seq file, jes if you want to submit a job
put LocalFileName RemoteFilename
bye

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Windows: (Win2k)

To run it in the batch:
ftp -n -s:FTPScriptFile MyHostName

The file is like: FTPScriptFile

USER MyUserID 
MyPassWord
prompt n
quote site lrecl=999999999
put LocalFileName RemoteFilename
bye

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