What are the basic JCL Statements for a Job?

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JOB : Identifies a job and supplies accounting info

EXEC : Identifies a job step by indicating the name of the
program to be executed.

DD : Identifies a data set to be allocated for the job step

Delimiter(/*) : Marks the end of an in-stream dataset

Null(//) : Marks the end of a job

Comments(//*) : Provides Comments

PROC : Marks the beginning of a procedure

PEND : Marks the end of a procedure

OUTPUT : Supplies options for SYSOUT processing.

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