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mkgupta123

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:52 pm
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Hi experts,

Need your expert advise that can we use symbolic parameters in a control card?
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:55 pm
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Symbolic parameters in the JCL that only the JCL can translate? No.

Symbolic parameters supplied to the job from a scheduling system? Yes, usually.

Symbolic parameters in a format that the program will know how to interpret? Yes.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:57 pm
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Thanks for quick reply...it helps!
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