What are three major types of JCL statements? What are their
functions?



What are three major types of JCL statements? What are their functions?..

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JOB - indicates start of jobstream to the operating system
and through parms coded on it, certain details about the

job (time, region, message level, job accounting data).

EXEC ? indicates the start of execution of a particular job
step, be that step a program or a proc.

DD - is a data definition, which is used to describe the
attributes of a data set (name, unit, type, space,

disposition).

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