How to overide the symbol parameter in the jcl ?

Answer Posted / karthik ramamoorthy

The Jcl using symbolic paramter looks like this
//job1 job 'abcd'
//step1 exec pgm=testpgm
//file1 dd dsn=&file,
disp=&disp

The symbolic paramters are &file and &DISP they way to
override them are as follows
//job1 job 'abcd'
//assign proc file1=test.file1,
// DISP=(NEW,DELETE,DELETE)

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