What is the meaning of keyword in JCL? What is its opposite?

A keyword in a JCL statement may appear in different places and is recognized by its name, eg. MSGCLASS in the JOB statement. The opposite is positional words, where their meaning is based on their position in the statement, eg. in the DISP keyword the =(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) meanings are based on first, second and third position.
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Renuka Mudaliyar

  • Apr 4th, 2006
 

Some part of the jcl is a must in all JCL's we code

For eg ://SYSIN  statement ,//SYSOUT  statement etc.,

Here SYSIN and SYSOUT are the keywords in jcl

These keywords will not change for any JCL they are generic

All others are the DD names so are likely to change

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