What is the meaning of the following declaration : DCB=BLKSIZE=, What is the difference between above declaration & not specifying DCB at all for a output file?

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How are GDGs concatenated?

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What is the purpose of dd?

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I have 20 steps in a job... step01, 02....step17...step20. For some reason I want to execute step17 only if the return code for all the previous steps are less than or equal to 4. otherwise if return code for any of the previous 16 steps is greater than 4, then step17 should be bypassed. How do I do that ?? how and in which step should i formulate COND parameter

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What is default if we don't specify RD parameter at all ?

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can i sort packed decimal if i can tell the syntax

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How would you understand error(execution phase)?

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i have a jcl in which 4 & 5 step creates a new generation. 4th step output is as input for the 6th step & 5th step output is used as input in the 7th step. How they are refered as in the 6th & 7th steps? If the job abends in 6th step then how the 5th step output is refered in 7th step?

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wht r different types of sort fields in jcl ?

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I have a sequential file in which there are 50 records. Now I want to copy all the 50 records in the reverse order into a new file? The last record in the original file should be the first record in the new file. How can I do it?

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We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

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How to override loadlib?

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