What are the rules employed while naming the steps in a job?



What are the rules employed while naming the steps in a job?..

Answer / Gaurav Singh Tomar

In JCL, steps should be named in such a way that they are unique within the job. They can consist of up to 8 alphabetic characters followed by up to 4 digits or special characters (such as underscore '_', hyphen '-', and period '.'). They must start with an alphabetic character.

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