WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT?
CAN ANYBODY SEND PROGRAM ON THIS?

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WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT? CAN ANYBODY SEND PROGRAM ON THIS?..

Answer / iqru

DUMMY is used to signify end-of-file or dummy input.

when some dummy file meaning empty file needs to be passed
to the program use //ddname DD DUMMY

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WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT? CAN ANYBODY SEND PROGRAM ON THIS?..

Answer / 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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WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT? CAN ANYBODY SEND PROGRAM ON THIS?..

Answer / surendran s

if the value has been get in instream then we have write an
dummy statment..
//SYSIN DD DUMMTY

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