What is SNAPSHOT in JCL

Kingsingh · New User Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Hi...

In my working place some job has first step and last step as follows..

First step................

XXSNAPSHOT EXEC PGM=MLDSNAP,PARM=MLDSNAP,PARM='START(*),RUN(20050310)'
PGM=XXSTEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=?????.??????.LOADLIB
XXSNAPOUT DD SYSOUT=*

Last step............

XXSNAPSHOT EXEC PGM=MLDSNAP,PARM=MLDSNAP,PARM='END(*),RUN(20050310)'
XXSTEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=?????.?????.LOADLIB
XXSNAPOUT DD SYSOUT=*

Can anyone tell about this.......

Thanks in advance

mdtendulkar · Active User Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 237 Location: USA

Kingsingh,

This must be some inhouse utility used by your site. Check with your supervisor / site admin for more details

Regards
Mayuresh