How we can Pass the parameters from JCL to assembler Pgm?

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How we can Pass the parameters from JCL to assembler Pgm? ..

Answer / divya

R1 contains a fullword that contains a address pointing to
tyhe parm data. In pgm before accessing the parm data use L
Rn,0(,R1) where n=3,..11 , Rn contains the address that
points to parm data. Create DSECT that contains a halfword
and the length of the data.

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How we can Pass the parameters from JCL to assembler Pgm? ..

Answer / anon

Using the PARM= keyword on the EXEC PGM statement in the
JCL. The parameters can be accessed in the program as
explained in Answer #1.

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How we can Pass the parameters from JCL to assembler Pgm? ..

Answer / phils

If you include a parameter string/Dataset in the JCL SYSIN
DD statement then this can be retrieved by an assembler
program via code such as...

OPEN SYSIN

GET SYSIN,WS_PARAM

CLOSE SYSIN

Obviously if there are multiple parameters defined then the
get statement would be in a loop and the contents would have
to be stored in separate working storage fields

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How we can Pass the parameters from JCL to assembler Pgm? ..

Answer / guest

Through Input parameter

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