Answer / guest

A symbolic is a PROC placeholder; the value for the symbolic
is supplied when the PROC is invoked, eg. &symbol=value. An
override replaces the PROC's statement with another one; it
substitutes for the entire statement.

Answer / s.sivarajan

overriding parameter:
In the overriding parameter we can override the existing
statements by dd statements after giving the data set name.

symbolic parameter:
In the symbolic parameter we can override the parameter by
giving the assign statement.

example:
ASSIGN PROC SIVA=SHR.
after statements
in the DISP parameter we can giving like this
DISP=&SIVA.
Then it take disposition is shareable(SHR).

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What is multithreading in jcl?

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