WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT?
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Answer Posted / venkat

it is cheek the execution of the program with out involving
the files
// job1 job
//joblib dd dsn=loadlib,disp=shr
//step1 exec pgm=pgm1
//disk1 dd dummy
//disk2 dd nullfile

when dummy is specified for an input file it treats
that it is an empty file
if dummy is specified for output it nullify all the
parameters

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