In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?



In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?..

Answer / Dev Raj Bairwa

The Conversion stage in JCL (Job Control Language) processing converts data between different formats as required by the job. This can include translating EBCDIC to ASCII or vice versa, reformatting records, or converting between binary and text data.

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