Yes, nothing after the // will be processed when submitting to a JES internal reader.

Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I keep a lot of JCL in Unix files and submit the jobs with FTP.

I often place inactive job steps, comments, notes, whatever at
the end of the file, after a "//" line.  Sometimes I even keep
a description at the front:

    Here's what the following job does ...
    //
    //NAME  JOB  ...

Causes no problems other than an occasional SYSLOG message:

    $HASP125 user     INTRDR     SKIPPING FOR JOB CARD

... which I don't happen to consider a problem.  But today I
happened to glance at one of my jobs with SDSF SJ.  The "//"
and all the following stuff are visible.  So, from the SJ
display I issued SUBMIT.  The "//" and following are not shown
by SJ for that submitted job.  So, I try writing the content of
the edit buffer to DD SYSOUT(,INTRDR) (I have a macro for that).
Again, the "//" and following stuff are visible in that
submitted job.

So, I conclude that breaking of jobstreams at "//" is perormed
not by JCL processing, but by TSO SUBMIT.

It's probably more complicated than that.

-- gil

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