what is the meaning of keyword in jcl?what is is opposite?

Answer Posted / praveen kumar bejjanki

In jcl, there are two types of parameters, positional and
keyword, Positional the name itself indicates that it
should follow some position. keywords should follow after
the positional parameters. Keyword parms can be in any
order, but they should be seperated by commas.

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