What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?
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Answer / venkatachalam
Passing the input to the COBOL Program. The length of the
parm parameter size only 100 characters.
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Answer / guest
The value after the PARM= specifies control information to
be passed to the executing program of the job step.
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Answer / kranthi kumar m
parm is a activity level parameter,it i used to pass maximum
100 characters of data from jcl to cobol program,and it is
mainly used when we want to pass date n time..... if we want
to pass large volumes of data we dn't use pam parameter
instead of it we use 'sysin dd*'
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