PROCEDURES in PL/1 There are three types of PL/I procedures. MAIN procedure, Subroutine Procedure and Function Procedure. The main procedures are having separate compilations and may or may not have subroutine and functions. Subroutine and functions may also be compiled separately and called as Subprogram. Four main advantages of using Subprograms The length of the … Read more
FILE HANDLING in PL/1 File handling process in PL/1 is similar to the FILE handling process in FORTRAN. There are four major steps involved in it. * Define the file – DECLARE * Open the file – OPEN FILE * Process information in the file – READ or WRITE or REWRITE … Read more
String Handling Functions In this article, let’s see about the character string handling functions and how to use string functions in PL/I Programming. SUBSTR: Used to extract the required portion of the Character String, Bit or Pic Attributes, by specifying the starting position and the length of the required string. Syntax: Name of the data … Read more
Continuing PL/I Programming Basics Part 3 which includes String Attributes and other functions related to PL/I variables. STRING DATA ATTRIBUTES in PL/I: Logical data items in PL/I is referred as string data item. A string is a sequence of characters or bits that is treated as a single data item. In referring the string data … Read more
PL/I Programming Basics Part 2 Below is the continuation of PL/I programming basics from my previous article, if you would like check the previous one, Part-1 link is here. In this article, let’s discuss a little more advanced topics like various statements, arithmetic operations and other functions in PL/I. ASSIGNMENT STATEMENT Used to assign some … Read more
PL/I Programming Language One (Basics) PL/I is a powerful language used in Mainframe that can be used for both business and scientific applications. PL/I is Programming Language One. One is a roman letter, not alphabet I . PL/I is used to write structured programs. It can be pronounced as pee ell one and not pee … Read more
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What is a GDG and How its used in JCL In Mainframe Programming, Generation Data Group is known as GDG which is multiple generations of the same file base. So if there is a GDG base(consider like a parent file) with a name ABC then its generations(children of the parent file ABC) will be ABC.G01, … Read more