What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

Answer Posted / kranthi kumar m

parm is a activity level parameter,it i used to pass maximum
100 characters of data from jcl to cobol program,and it is
mainly used when we want to pass date n time..... if we want
to pass large volumes of data we dn't use pam parameter
instead of it we use 'sysin dd*'

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