How to execute 300 steps in a Job?

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How to execute 300 steps in a Job?..

Answer / jugal kishor

Answer number 10 is not correct, the total number of steps
in all the procs <= 255

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How to execute 300 steps in a Job?..

Answer / lalith

one job can execute max. of 255 steps only...
so we cant execute 300 steps in one job...

we can solve this using procs...
1). we can write some steps in one proc and remaining in
another procs call these two procs in one job then we can
execute 300 steps.
2). we can write 255 steps in one proc and remaining steps
in job....

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How to execute 300 steps in a Job?..

Answer / shiba

call one job using another job
put all the 300 job in 2 diff job 0r jcl

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 3 No

How to execute 300 steps in a Job?..

Answer / sunil

i think it might be possible by using procdure.

we have write more than 255 step by using proc.And proc
step also included on that.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 6 No

How to execute 300 steps in a Job?..

Answer / manikandan.d

by using procedure we can execute 300 step since each proc
contain max of 255 steps...

one way :

so here we may use 2 proc to execute 300 steps...

another way:

we may use one proc(255 steps) and remaining steps(45 steps)
just include in a same job after that proc

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