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I know how to use HILITE, but how do I put in in a post they way it was done?

I have edited your posts to remove unnecessary sections, e.g. the COBOL compile step as that executed successfully, and to use the code tags. Now we can see the wood from the trees as everything lines up. Please use the code tags - as I mentioned before you can easily work out how to use them if you use the "Full Editor" for creating your post and not the "Quick Reply" editor. Also, don't XDC the whole job - just the parts that are required - and even then edit out bits that are irrelevant.

To fix your problem you need to supply a dataset with your input. As you can see from the error message, the program was trying to access SYSIN and if you look at your JCL you did not supply a SYSIN DD statement to that step (GO).

Was this not correct?
//SYSIN DD DSN=KC03MA9.LANG.SOURCE(CALC1000),DISP=SHR

That was the COBOL source code input to the compiler. Your program needs input via SYSIN in it execution step (GO) so something like

or

And using ACCEPT is generally a poor way to provide input into a COBOL program. For proper processing, you'll need to provide left-zero-filled 7-digit numbers WITHOUT a decimal point (so 35.73 would be 0003573 and 1091 would be 0109100). If you don't provide numbers in the correct format, you may not get the results you expect.

IGYWCLG is a system procedure that contains three separate steps. Each step may (or may not) have a SYSIN DD statement. You are confusing the COBOL source (COBOL.SYSIN) with the REQUIRED runtime SYSIN (GO.SYSIN). Furthermore, looking at your original JCL as posted 20 posts ago, you have a which indicates, at a minimum, that you do not have your JCL coded correctly and this may be causing your problem. Your JCL should look something like If you had a subprogram being called by your COBOL program, you would need and these statements would belong between your //COBOL.SYSLIB and your //GO.SYSIN statements above. The SYSIN DD names have the procedure step name before the SYSIN to indicate which of the three steps that particular SYSIN is associated with. If you just placed the data in the JCL without any //SYSIN statement, you would get the GENERATED STATEMENT message shown above -- and this is definitely wrong.