what is the general use of PARM? Give an explanation about
the system defined parameters that could be passed through
this PARM like XREF,LIST,LET,APOST,RENT etc..

Answer Posted / tnr

PARM parameter is used to pass the data to the COBOL
program from JCL.Using this parameter you can pass only 100
characters excluding quotes.

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