In reading the various posts in this thread it has occurred to me that the
distinction between a job and a job step, always arbitrary, is particularly
infelicitous here.
Make each all of these jobs a step in a framing job; and JCL will then provide
1) unambigouus linear ordering of these steps and 2) all of the other control
mechanisms you need (conditional truncation of the jobstep stream, alternative,
condition-code driven execution of step k instead of step j following step i,
conditional suppression of a subsequent job step, and the like).
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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