INCLUDE/COPY in JCL ( Like COBOL COPY statement)

parikshit123 · Active User Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 269 Location: India

Hi,

A bit silly question.

Do we have anything like INCLUDE/COPY in JCL?

For example, in COBOL we can use COPY statement to include any text into the source program. For example, we can have procedure division or data division entries kept in other source datasets and we can issue

COPY XYZ command to copy it into our program.

My question is, do we have anything like that in JCL?

I know that we can use proc. but the proc must have a least one EXEC statement (correct me if I am wrong).

One of my jobstep contains a lot of DD statements and I want to keep all those statements in a seperate dataset but without EXEC statement.

Can I do this?

MGIndaco · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:47 pm

In a PROC you can have more than one EXEC statement.
This is the link for the PROC:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/handheld/Connected/BOOKS/IEA2B650/24.0?DT=20040712170508
And this is for the INCLUDE statement:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/handheld/Connected/BOOKS/IEA2B650/18.0?DT=20040712170508

Try to search in JCL manual and you will find all you need.

solid_18 · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:51 pm

Yes! its possible to INCLUDE in JCL

dneufarth · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:04 am

simple seach of JCL manual would provide the answer

Dave

parikshit123 · Active User Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 269 Location: India

Hi,

Thanks all.

dnefarth, you are right, a simple search in JCL manual would have given me the answer.

But I didn't know that "INCLUDE" is there in JCL.

I was searching for "COPY".

Anyway, thanks