What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

The value after the PARM= specifies control information to be passed to the executing program of the job step.
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VINAY

  • Dec 27th, 2005
 

parm is used in exec statement to pass the value to the application program. it is a length of 100 char and it can be it can be acccepted in linkage section.//stepname dd pgm=prog1, parm= hello

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srini

  • May 4th, 2007
 

Is there any chance to move more than 100 characters through PARM? If yes, how?

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srinivas

  • Aug 9th, 2007
 

Using parm parameter we can pass the data from JCL to application program (COBOL). If the data have more than 100characters using SYS IN DD* we can pass the data to application program.

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sudhakarchandu

  • Sep 28th, 2007
 

It is only used for to pass the values by JCL to the perticular application program like COBOL program.

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