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> On Dec 22, 2023, at 16:28, Rahim Azizarab 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> you can also experiment with this method.  It works on Zos; but I have not 
> tried it on MVS3.8.
> //FULTONMA JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
> //MYPROG PROC P=IEFBR14
> //PSTEP1 EXEC PGM=&P
> // IF (RC LT 4) THEN
> //PSTEP2 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='Y'
> // ELSE
> //PSTEP2 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='N'
> // ENDIF
> // PEND
> //STEP1 EXEC PROC=MYPROG,P=IEFBR14
> //STEP2 EXEC PROC=MYPROG
> 
> 
> regards;
> 
> Rahim
> 
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
> 
>    On Friday, December 22, 2023 at 10:04:29 AM CST, Bob Bridges 
> <[email protected]> wrote:  
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---
> Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313
> 
> /* "Poor Diogenes; if you knew how to get on with people you wouldn't have to 
> live like that." / "Poor Aristippos; if you knew how to live like this you 
> wouldn't have to get on with people."  -a condensation of their respective 
> schools of thought a few centuries BC */
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