What are three major types of JCL statements? What are their functions?
9 August 2009
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JOB – indicates start of jobstream to the operating system and through parms coded on it, certain details about the job (time, region, message level, job accounting data).
EXEC – indicates the start of execution of a particular job step, be that step a program or a proc.
DD – is a data definition, which is used to describe the attributes of a data set (name, unit, type, space, disposition).
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