What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .

What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the
middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?

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What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?..

Answer / guest

Job will fall through to the ENDIF (not executing any
steps), then resume execution with the first step AFTER the
// ENDIF.

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What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?..

Answer / mahesh babu

step which is coded after the If and End-If will be executes

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What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?..

Answer / brahmareddy.t

If you code restart in between if & end-if
the job will execute from first step.
i.e. if you want to restart step5 in between if $ end-if then it will start from step1.

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What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?..

Answer / satheesh

It will fail with JCL error.

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