Positional & keyword parameters are very important at JOB,activity & DD level.
We have these parameters for each level i.e JOB, ACTIVITY & DD .
Positional Parameter:
Keyword parameters can be coded in any order and these are not mandatory .
Various parameters at JOB LEVEL are
We have these parameters for each level i.e JOB, ACTIVITY & DD .
Positional Parameter:
- These positional parameters are mandatory which must be coded after operands with minimum one task.
- Mainly we use two parameters at the JOB level i.e
- Accounting Information : - This parameter must be coded immediate after the operand and it should contain1 to 20 alphanumeric characters.
- This will be used to record JOB CPUTIME of IBM Server and used for billing purpose.
Keyword parameters can be coded in any order and these are not mandatory .
Various parameters at JOB LEVEL are
- CLASS: It is used to categorize job based on CPU time, these parameters are defined by operators depends on installation.
- MSGCLASS: It is another keyword parmeter which is used to route diagnostic messages i.e (pass or fail ) to specify destination.
- Destinations can be auxiliary, printer and spool
- MSGLEVEL : It is another keyword parameter, which is used to control volume of the messages.Message level consists of two sub parameters(STMTS, MSGS)
- Stmts is used to specify type of message, where as MSG is used to specify status of job i.e normal or abnormal
- PRIORITY : It is used to set the priority to jobs by giving specific values ranging from 0 to 14
- NOTIFY : This parameter is used to send notification about job status.
- TYPRUN : This parameter is used to check syntax errors of jcl programs and execute the jcl programs
What is JOBCARD ?
It is combination of JOBNAME, JOB OPERAND, Positional & keyword parameters.
It is combination of JOBNAME, JOB OPERAND, Positional & keyword parameters.
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