How many jobs(maximum) can we give in one member to submit?How many steps(maximum) can we give in one job?How many steps (maximum) can we give in one member to execute after submitting?

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Eugene

  • Mar 6th, 2006
 

Never heard anything regarding any limit on number of jobs submitted.

Number of steps in 1 job - no more than 255.

Member - i guess you mean PDS member - actually it doesn't matter from where job is submitted. How many will run - depends on the number of available initiators for Job clasess and job names  for the same classes - some  jobs may have to wait.

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INDIAN

  • Apr 8th, 2006
 

 IN ONE MEMBER WE CAN SUBMIT ONE JOB , IN EACH JOB WE CAN HAVE 255 STEPS

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Kiran

  • Apr 17th, 2006
 

hi,

There is no limit on the number of jobs in a member(i mean PDS member).

Regarding steps, i a single job we can have at most 255 steps, including the steps in the Proc's(inline and cataloged).

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pr

  • May 16th, 2006
 

255 number can excute

255 excute stmt we can write

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Nitin

  • Jun 8th, 2006
 

each & every statement have upper limit in JCl. Like we can code uptp 255 Exec stmt. within a job. we can code uptp 3273 DD stmt within a Exec stmt. But its correct that we can code more then one Job stmt within a member. I have tried with 1800 job stmt. there was no error. JCl was error free. I think there is an upper limit but i wanna tell to s/w people that never try to implement this thing inside company without prior approval of your manager. because if you will submit a jcl with around 2000 job then mainframe will hang. hang in the sense, every job have to wait untill your job completed.

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prakashc

  • Nov 30th, 2009
 

We can have a one JOB statement in a PDS member or PS.

Under that JOB statement we can have 255 number of steps and
3273 DD statements Possible.

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MOHAMED AARIF

  • Aug 9th, 2016
 

Maximum jobs in JCL = infinity, but the jobs will after the initiator limit reached. The waiting jobs will be submitted once the initiator queue is freed. Initiator queue will be released by completing the job.
Maximum steps in Job(not in a JCL) = 255,
(Exceeding above condition will throw EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF EXECUTE STATEMENTS error)
Maximum DD in a Steps = 1635 (Error thrown = EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF DD STATEMENTS)
Maximum DD in a Job = 3273 (Error thrown = EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF DD STATEMENTS)

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