What is the use of DUMMY statement in the JCL?
What is the use of DUMMY Utility in the JCL?
Answer Posted / sivakumar sekharannair
The use a a DD statement with a DUMMY parameter will allow
a program to run if a data set does not exist. In the cobol
program the OPEN will be successful, the first READ will
return an End-of-File return code and the close will be
successful.
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