Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

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Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?..

Answer / mrunmaya

Guest I think in the syntax there should be stepname instead
of jobname.

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Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?..

Answer / guest

The EXEC statement identifies the program to be executed via
a PGM= program name keyword. Its format is //jobname EXEC
PGM= program name. The PARM= keyword can be used to pass
external values to the executing program.

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