Dummy specifies that no devices are to allocated to the file reference by

What is the use of DUMMY statement in the JCL?
What is the use of DUMMY Utility in the JCL?

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Answer Posted / r.pugazhendhi

Dummy specifies that no devices are to allocated to the file
reference by the DD name and that all i/o requests be bypassed

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