What is dummy parameter in JCL??
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Answer / lakshmi
The DUMMY statement will allow a Jcl program to run if a
data set does not exist.
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Answer / priyadarsini.maitree23@gm
when we have a utility which needs a DD DSN statement, but, we dont need to give any input file, we give dummy in place of the workfile so that the jcl will execute without any issue..
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I want to JCL sort for Non-COMP and COMP-3 fields SORT FIELDS=(1,5,A,6,11,A,12,11,A,19,1,A,20,1,A),FORMAT=BI,EQUALS Length of comp bytes is 11 bytes which start at 6byte and 12 byte considering 11 bytes in comp-3 is 6 bytes. Can anyone tell if the above sort work SORT FIELDS=(1,5,A,6,6,A,12,6,A,19,1,A,20,1,A),FORMAT=BI,EQUALS does not works OK
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