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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:41 am
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Hi,
Cnu give explanation for this Why do we use PARM in RUN JCL?


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:53 am
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Why do we use PARM in RUN JCL?


From the manual...

Use the PARM parameter to pass variable information to the processing program executed by this job step. To use the information, the processing program must contain instructions to retrieve the information.

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