What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card.

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What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card...

Answer / y@$w@nth

TIME ---> with the TIME parameter we are telling to the
operating system that the maximum amount of time that our
job can take, if that time exeeds and still ur job is
running then operating system will abend our job with abend
code 322.

PRTY---> PRTY stands for priority of our job that means..
for exmple if there are four jobs those needs to executed by
operating system using PRTY parameter we telling that which
job needs to execute first and which needs to execute second
and so on.....

CLASS --> CLASS parameter tells the class of your job that
means some jobs may take heavy time and some jobs take less
time depending on the complexity of the program and
resources that those are using. By using class parameter we
are telling to the Operating system that my job is of this
class....

Let me know if i am worng...
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Y@$w@nth

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What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card...

Answer / mohan.chepuri

class is used to which job wil execute first
time is use to limited time to giv the run the job
prty is use to if class is equal to all jobs then prty is
use to check the prty cond and execute first

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What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card...

Answer / krishnachaitanya

first answer is correct except about CLASS given by friend
Khajafairoz . class tells that our job submited to os through
which input queue there are 36 input queues each input queue
has its own time and region it depends on installation it
vary to company to company if we didnot give class name it
wil take default queue name it vay to company to company.

queues are A,B,C,D------Z,0,1,2,-----9 SO TOTAL=26+10=36.

CLASS=A,OR CLASS=Z ,OR CLASS=1,OR CLASS=9-----------

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What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card...

Answer / khajafairoz

TIME:-HOW MUCH TIME IS ALLOCATED FOR EXCUTING MY JOB.THE CPU
TAKE MORE TIME IT WILL ABEND S322 ERROR CODE.

PRTY:-IT WILL GIVE HIGEST PRTY FOR EXECUTING MY JOB.

CLASS:-THE CLASS PARAMETER TELL WHAT IS UR PROGRAM,WHO HAS
WRRITEN WHEN IT COMPILE.

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