Wayne Bikerdike is quite correct. In its discussion of the EXEC statement the JCL manual says: | A job can have a maximum of 255 job step. This includes the steps in any procedures the | EXEC statements call. Moreover, since the count is held (as an unsigned binary integer) in a single byte, the usual control-block overflow problem precludes increasing it simplistically. That said, 255 steps or linked jobs is enough, perhaps indeed too many, for such shenanigans.
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