Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords?

The JOB statement is the first in a JCL stream. Its format is // jobname, keyword JOB, accounting information in brackets and keywords, MSGCLASS, MSGLEVEL, NOTIFY, CLASS, etc.
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Don Carey

  • Jul 14th, 2005
 

Notify is misspelled in the answer.

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kpguptha

  • Aug 22nd, 2010
 

Need for job statement:


To identify the job with job name and the person who submitted the
job,specify which class the job is belonging to using class parameter ,specify
how the output shoud be handled using msgclass, etc and it is the first
statement in program


Syntax:


//12345678 job "accinf","accname",class=a,msgclass=a,msglevel=(1,1),notify=&sysuid


Here 12345678 is job name it should be 8 characters is not mandatory
Job it is telling to compiler like it is my job statement
After accinformation and accname are positional parameters which should maintain
an order, etc


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