What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND? What is its syntax?

COND specifies the conditions for executing the subsequent job step. The value after the COND= is compared to the return codes of the preceding steps and if the comparison is true, the step is bypassed. (If this answer confuses you, welcome to the club - memorize it and don't ask questions!)

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May 25th, 2007

Use COND if you have to. Personally, I prefer IF THEN. This provides the beginning of object oriented programming practices to JCL.

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sudhakar

Sep 28th, 2007

In exec statement the condition is used for by-passing the perticular step through the condition,
if COND=0 Its a successfull execution
if COND=4 Its a warning
if COND=8 Its a serious error
if COND=16 Its a fatal error.
So that we can use this condition key word.