What's the use of IEFBR14

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

Dear Friend,

IEFBR14 is a two-line program that clears register 15, thus passing a return code of 0, and then branches to the address in register 14, which returns control to the system.

If a step requests IEFBR14 instead of the program that the JCL actually supports, the system does the following:

Checks all the job control statements in the step for syntax.
Allocates direct access space for data sets.
Performs data set dispositions.

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ragin · New User Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 16

Hey dude,
IEFBR14 is a utility program in JCL.It is used to create a PS and it is also used to create a PDS.Enough or u need the coding also,if yes then here it is:
//Jobname JOB Notify=&Sysuid
//Exec1 EXEC PGM=IEBR14
//DDname DD DSN=ID.Hell.PS,Disp=(New,Catlg),
Unit=SYSDA,DCB=(DSORG=PO,LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,
Blksize=800),Space=(Trk,(1,2),RLSE)
//
So on execution u will be creating a PS File on DsList.Same coding for PDS Too only diff is in DSORG Specify PO instead.This is all abt IEBR14,if any mistake do correct me.

ovreddy · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:28 pm

What McMillan is saying is right. But the guy who asked the question is testing the EXPERTS. I think he already knows the functionality and he wants to explain. Dont do like that just Post what you know directly in to appropriate forum.

I also suggest Site administrator to create a seperate section where just we can post some thing new what we know without asking questions.

Bye,
Reddy.

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

Dear Ovreddy,