Overriding Concatenated Datasets in JCL Lets assume that you have a PROC with the following step which has 5 concatenated steps. //STEP010 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM1 //INPUTF DD …
GDG - A Basic Introduction Introduction GDG stands for Generation Data Group. Here a group of files are related functionally or chronologically and can be accessed …
TIME=NOLIMIT and TIME=MAXIMUM We can specify the max limit of TIME parameter as TIME=NOLIMIT TIME=MAXIMUM Now which specification gives maximum time for a JOB? …
Run a step only from a set of steps in a job I have a JCL with 20 steps. Due to some reasons I want to execute the step 15 only. One way to do it is to use RESTART from STEP15, but it …
Run a Program using Referback It is possible to execute a program from any library using the referback feature. STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //PROGRAM DD …
Dummy VSM Dataset in JCL In general we use DUMMY datasets in JCL instead of a actual file for some requirements. But how can we specify dummy VSAM dataset in a JCL? …
