How many types of parameters are used in JCL and what are
mandatory parameters of JOB statement.

Answer Posted / sunil

At job level we have 2 parameters those are

1) Positional Parameters (ACcounting information and
Programmer name)
2) Keyword parameters (CLASS,MSG CLASS, MSG
LEVEL,PRTY,COND,TYPERUN .. etc)

From the above positional parameters are mandatory , But
key word parameters are optional.

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