Can a Step be kept in loop in JCL

krishna_Murty · New User Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 24

Can a step be looped in JCL?

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Krishna

shreevamsi · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:19 am

No,

You can't have a loop in your JCL

~Vamsi

ofer71 · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:52 am

You can try the following trick:

Make a job constructed of only this step. Then add a step to submit the same job again.

You will have to take care in the termination of the loop programatically, like returning a specific return code and asking about it before each iteration.

O.

krishna_Murty · New User Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 24

Thanks very much , i will try from the programatical point of view ie with the help of Cobol some thing like that, which i have not thought of, thank u very much for your suggestion.