How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?

Answer Posted / srinivas pogula

Dummy statements are do nothing statments once control
encounters this, operating system treats it as end of
file .... and it does for testing purpose, once the testing
is done and if it executes successfully ,then dummy is
repalced by dataset name what we require for that program
that

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