Difference between JCLLIB & PROCLIB in terms of their us

t1nt1n · New User Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 31

Hello Friends

I searched for this in the forum, but couldn't find exact difference between JCLLIB and PROCLIB. Can anyone provide me the precise difference between these 2 and when each of this is used in JCLs.

Thanks in advance.

lokeshpurushothaman · New User Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 Location: chennai

Hi

i m not aware of something called PROCLIB in JCL.
JCLLIB is to specify where your proc should be searched for.

I guess you might have got confused seeing PROCLIB in the first 8 positions next to //. It is just a dummy name.

learnmf · Active User Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 123

Hi Friend.

jcllib and proclib are used to specify where jcl is to be loaded from rather than programs. jcllib is used with the INCLUDE MEMBER statement to specify the library where pieces of jcl are held that can be included into a number of jobs. I have not seen this actually used, more often rather than separating out parts of job steps and including them it is more usual to extract out complete job steps into separate procedures stored in a proc library. proclib is the dd statement to override where to get procedures from.

Thanks
Chandra