https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.idau100/u1241.htm

That page documents the standard format of the Utility control statements.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:26:14 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
> >
> >Seriously? That COLS line was for demonstration purposes to show that both
> >the Control cards and Comments are within the first 72 bytes. It is NOT
> >part of the control cards nor is it a comment.
> >
> I was hoping for a way to code a comment.
>
> >> And I was looking for a form where SYSIN contains no commands, only
> >comments.
> >
> >What is the purpose of this? When you are invoking a program/utility, you
> >can pass parameters to the program/utility via a PARM statement or SYSIN.
> >In your case you chose NOT to pass any parameters via SYSIN.  That brings
> >us to the question "what is the purpose of having comments?"
> >
> Adding identifying information to SYSPRINT, where I'd expect comments to
> be listed along with control statements.  I needed none of the latter.
>
> >What is stopping you from coding a COMMENTS dd and you can have all your
> >comments in there?
> >
> ... and in the next job step modding IEBGENER's sysprint to that.
> I'm doing that now.  But since IEBGENER already has a SYSIN,
> I was hoping I could put the comments there and avoid the extra
> job step.
>
> -- gil
>
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