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What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

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what happens if job falls in loop ? how to resolve it ?

3 Answers   Patni,

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i have a jcl in which 4 & 5 step creates a new generation. 4th step output is as input for the 6th step & 5th step output is used as input in the 7th step. How they are refered as in the 6th & 7th steps? If the job abends in 6th step then how the 5th step output is refered in 7th step?

1 Answers   IBM,

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hi,i have joined in mainframe course recently. ihave a doubt ragarding restart parameter.what is d use of it. and what is d syntax for it. any one give me d answer pls.

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What is catelog procedure and how many catelog procedure to use in one job?

2 Answers   Infosys,

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What does IEBGENER do?

10 Answers   BirlaSoft,

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Is there a way to check for an empty file in JCL other than using IEBCOMPR and the command PRINT COUNT(1)?

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Hi, all suppose i have 5 steps (S1,S2,S3,S4,S5) what will happen if cond is true or false (which of the other steps get executed)? 1) //s3 exec pgm=abc,cond=(0,le) 2) //s3 exec pgm=abc,cond=(0,le,step2) 3) In the jobcord RESTART=step3,cond=(0,le) 4) can i code COND=TRUE in jobcard, if yes what will happen?

3 Answers   TCS, Tech Mahindra,

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in order to execute step2 a job after a return code of 8 in step1, what condition you will code in step2?

0 Answers   IBM,

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What do you understand by the term notcat 2 – gs?

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wht happens if blksize = 0 and lrec = 0 ?

1 Answers   TCS,

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If the COND parameter is specified in both the JOB and EXEC statements, which one will take precedence? If JOB takes priority and if all the conditions evaluate to false, then will the conditions on the EXEC step be evaluated next?

4 Answers   Wipro,

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