Answer / Kailash Bhardwaj

The 'JOB' statement is the primary control statement in a JCL deck. It specifies the name and type of the job (such as batch or interactive), as well as other parameters such as the job's user ID, priority level, and output devices.

I have 2 steps in my exec statement , in first step I am creating a gdg, and the output of this step is going into second step as a input, and this second step is abended , now how could i approach in this case.

5 Answers   Bank Of America,

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I have an job having three job steps.Suppose i want to call a pgm in step2 and aproc in step3.How to write the code?

2 Answers   IBM,

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We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

1 Answers   IBM,

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I had 100 steps in jcl i want to execute first 10 steps only?

6 Answers   IBM,

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Is there any command to check wether the ps file is in sorted order?

1 Answers   IBM,

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wht is sysudump n sysout,sysprint ?

1 Answers   L&T,

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Write a jcl to execute a job by 7 a.m on Jan 20,1986 ?

5 Answers   Maples, Patni, TCS,

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What is JOBLIB ?

5 Answers   Xansa,

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I found in one of the jcl, gdg version being mentioned as : abc.def.ghi(-0) Can anyone tell me how referring the version as (-0) is different from referring it as (0)

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In a JCL if previous steps return code is greater than 0 or 4 then the next step will not execute. But the job will be successfull with the maximum return code. How can we reset this maximum return code to '0' regardless of return codes of any steps?

4 Answers  

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what are the various stages of job processing?

1 Answers   IBM,

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how to convert a file form fixed Length to variable length?

2 Answers   Syntel,

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