Wayne Bikerdike is quite correct. In its discussion of the EXEC statement the
JCL manual says:
| A job can have a maximum of 255 job step. This includes the steps
in any procedures the
| EXEC statements call.
Moreover, since the count is held (as an unsigned binary integer) in a single
byte, the usual control-block overflow problem precludes increasing it
simplistically.
That said, 255 steps or linked jobs is enough, perhaps indeed too many, for
such shenanigans.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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