Never mind - figured it out by experimentation.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 11:04

I should know this - I've been using JCL for decades - but I find I'm uncertain 
about something I haven't done in a while.  I have a production job here that 
will eventually be rewritten, but for now I'm just going to tell it to execute 
only the first couple steps.  I had in mind inserting "//" before the part of 
the JCL that I want to skip.  Very simple.

But wait - does the JCL interpreter discard the rest of the job when it sees 
that empty '//', or does it interpret the rest as the start of a new job?  
(Since there's no subsequent JOB statement I'm not terribly worried about it, 
but it's sloppy; maybe I should just use a COND parm on the JOB card.)  This 
info is probably in the JCL ref, but I don't immediately see it.

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