Why do you use a control card?

Answer Posted / krishna

Control card used for passing /* ,// as input via inputstream.
if we code //sysin dd * ,we could n't pass /* and // as
input.but if we code //sysin dd data, dlm='xx' ,we can able
to pass..

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