On Tue, 9 May 2017 08:16:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>The JCL Ref. indicates that they are available to the
>//*FORMAT PR statement.
>
>("//*FORMAT PR" looks uncomfortably like a comment.  Is
>this a reserved comment?  Ugh!)

It's a JES3 JECL statement.
There is a good reason it looks like a comment.
It allows JCL to be coded that contains Job Entry Control Language statements 
for both JES2 and JES3, so that it can be run in either environment.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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