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How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?
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Answer / guest
For an output file DUMMY specifies that the output is to be
discarded. For input it specifies that the file is empty.
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Answer / srinivas pogula
Dummy statements are do nothing statments once control
encounters this, operating system treats it as end of
file .... and it does for testing purpose, once the testing
is done and if it executes successfully ,then dummy is
repalced by dataset name what we require for that program
that
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Answer / mani
For an output file DUMMY specifies that the output is to be
discarded. For input it specifies that the file is empty.
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//sysin dd dummy
dummy- statements are not actually executed, used for
testing environment
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