How do you pass parameters to the program as the job is
being executed ?
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Answer / guest
By using 'parm' parameter in exec statement. the value
mentioned here should be declared in linkage section in the
program and process thru procedure division. this technique
is very useful when you do not know the parameters at the
time of coding the programs.
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Answer / lakshmisudha
using PARM parameter we can pass the data from one step to
another step
using REFER BACK PARAMETER we can pass dd statments dsn, dcb
from one step to another step or with in step also
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