What is the difference between the JOBLIB and the STEPLIB
statements?

Answer Posted / vaibhav kulkarni

1)JOBLIB : It is placed after the job statement.
steplib is placed after the EXEC statement.


2)joblib statement can't be cataloged
while steplib statement can be cataloged.
3) syntax for the joblib //joblib DD DSN=datasetname

and
syntax for the steplib

//steplib DD DSN=datasetname

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