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At the time of writing this tutorial, on June 25, 2009, I would like to offer my sympathy, my tribute to the one of the
greatest Music Artists Michael Jackson. As I child, I listened to his songs and albums Dangerous, Black and White
We all commit good deeds and bad deeds, but one who learns from his past is the one who emerges the winner. And, we
must admit his never-say-die spirit. After being dragged to courts for sodomy and sexual abuse, he decided to once
again go back and hit the Music Scene in London. More than 75,000 tickets have been sold out in just 4 days. Just, when
he has passed away tragically.
Around 10 years back, Michael Jackson had come to India. He had been invited to city of Mumbai by the then ruling
party Shiv-Sena at Bala Saheb Thackeray's residence. We all remember that he performed a concert here in which he
lands down in a space-ship(a similar scene had been enacted by Shah-Rukh Khan in Badshaah). His moon-walk dance had
been emulated by Hritik Roshan in the film Lakshya. Prabhu Deva, Farah Khan, Sallu Bhai, Javed Jaafri have all been
inspired by him. Michael Jackson will stay in our hearts for years to come (the young Michael in the Jackson 5 is a sight
you can never forget)...
Quasar Chunawala
Mumbai,
India

Q. What is the EXEC Statement?

A Batch JOB is written to execute a PROC. In one PROC, there

can be several programs. Each program is a step in the Batch
JOB. Hence, every program is called a job-step.
Thus, a batch JOB can have many job-steps, where each jobstep executes a program. Every job-step will have an Input
Dataset, Output Dataset, and the program to be executed(which
performs operations on the Data Records in Dataset).
The syntax of the EXEC statement is as follows
//step-name EXEC PGM=prog-name
To execute a load PROGRAM1, we will write,
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM1
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Q. What is the ACCT Parameter?

Every job-step can be billed to a different account. The ACCT

parameter is used to specify accounting information for a jobstep.
//TRGD56 JOB ,QUASAR,CLASS=X,PRTY=14,
// MSGCLASS=A,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
// NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM1,ACCT=A123
//STEP02 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM2,ACCT=B123
Here, the CPU-time utilized by job-step STEP01 will be billed
to Account No. A123, and the CPU Time utilized by job-step
STEP02 will be billed to Account No. B123.
Q. What is the PARM Parameter?

The PARM Parameter of the job-step is used to give/pass Data

Input values to the program being executed in the job-step.
If there are more than 1 parameters, we give a comma
separated list.
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM1,ACCT=A123,
// PARM=(Sam,Ram,Pam)
Q. What are JOBLIB and STEPLIB Parameters ?

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The program Load to be executed in the job-step

must be a member of a PDS(Load Library).
Thus, the location of the Load, i.e. the LOADLIB must be
specified by using the JOBLIB or STEPLIB parameters. If the
LOADLIB is the same for all the job-steps, we use JOBLIB
parameter.
//TRGD56 JOB A123,QUASAR,
// NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//JOBLIB DD DSN=TRGD56.DEMO.LOADLIB,
// DISP=SHR
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM1
//STEPLIB DD DSN=TRGD56.COB.LOADLIB,
// DISP=SHR
//STEP02 EXEC PGM=PROGRAM2
The STEPLIB statement for the job-step STEP01 specifies, that
the location of th Load PROGRAM1 is the PDS(Load Library
TRGD56.COB.LOADLIB.
Since, the job-step STEP02 does not have a STEPLIB parameter,
the Load PROGRAM2 will be searched in the default PDS(Load
Library TRGD56.DEMO.LOADLIB mentioned in JOBLIB parameter.

Posted by Quasar at Friday, June 26, 2009

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bench3.comsaid...
Really informative!
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Though i dont know much about what you discussed here, still i read what you wrote about michael! well, he wont be missed.. his music will
make him live for ever! cheers!
Also very sorry, as i cant post a comment related to your post. As what i said... i am not in this field!
over all, good to see nice orginal content in your blog! keep going!
June 27, 2009 11:37 PM

Anonymous said...
well done,keep going...
August 1, 2009 6:45 AM

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