what are the symbolic parameters? why do we use symbolic
parameters ?
Answer Posted / fayazsha.,
//MYJOB JOB(P,U202,SH1),'FRANK SMITH',CLASS=A
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM1,SYSTEM=PROD,DEPT=INV,TYPE=DATA
//FILEIN DD DSNAME=&SYSTEM..&DEPT..&TYPE,DISP=SHR
//FILEOUT DD DSNAME=&SYSTEM..&DEPT..DATA,DISP=
(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// AVGREC=U,SPACE=(80,(100,20),RLSE),
// DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB)
A.Referring to the above coding, what is the effective
dataset name for the data definition FILEOUT?
PROD.INV.DATA
Here we are referring the symbolic variable with single &
Ampersand.
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