Answer Posted / muttaiah
There are several Job control stmts some of those are ..
1. JOB - Explains the job details.
2. Exec - Tells regarding the program
3. DD - Tells regd the datasets used in the program
4. Prod - start of the procedure
5. pend - end of the procedure
6. /* - Delimiter(end of instream data)
7. //* - Comment stmt
8 // - Null Stmt
9. Output - Routes the JESmsgs/JClstmts as specified
10. Include - Copies the JCL in PDS member during run time
11. Joblib & steplib - Specifies the Load module libraries
12. JCLLIB - Specifies the Procedure libraries
That's all i remember. If any thing missing add/modify
accordingly..
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