In a catalog procedure PROC statement is mandatory or not

chandrasekhar · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 35 Location: bangalore

Q1. In a catalog procedure PROC statement is mandatory or not??
If not then how we call it.
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anuradha · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:05 pm

Hi chandrasekhar,

If proc statement is not given in catalog procedures then how come it will recognize the Proc name?

So it is required.

Thanks,
Anu

superk · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:17 am

Please check with the JCL Reference Manual before posting:

superk · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:21 am

By the way, this is the manual I'm referring to:

publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2B650/CCONTENTS?DT=20040712170508

anuradha · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:34 pm

Thanks a lot Kevin for correcting me.

So, chandrasekhar Proc statement is optional. Job will recognize the proc by the proc name.

Hope your doubt is clarified.

chandrasekhar · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 35 Location: bangalore

Hi friends

Thanks for help to clear my doubt.But still something is left.
you mean if PROC isnot mention then the syntex may be like this. Is it correct???Still a little confussion is here.Need some more guidence.

//myproc
//step1 exec ....
//dd1 dd .....
//

THANKS

superk · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:17 am

If you choose not to use the PROC statement at the beginning of a cataloged procedure, then the procedure would look like this:

//PROCSTEP EXEC PGM=
//DD1 DD DSN=...
//DD2 DD DSN=...

chandrasekhar · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 35 Location: bangalore

hi superk
Thanks for the answer but one more thing is that how u call a PROCEDURE.Generally we call by it name which is a part of PROC statement.isn't it??But our program does n't contain any such thing.

THANKS

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Chandra,

To invoke an in-stream procedure you use up to 8 positions beginning at pos 3 in the PROC stmt when you code the invoking EXEC stmt.

For a PROC residing in a PDS use the membername of the procedure as created in the PDS. Using the procname in the PROC stmt in this case is just a useful convention, but is not mandatory.

chandrasekhar · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 35 Location: bangalore

Thanks to all the member of this forum who help me a lot to understand the concept of PROCEDURE.
THANKS AND REGARDS

chandrasekhar