"Prudently, you should inspect your JCL to ensure there are no
happenstance occurrences of your chosen delimiter."


Oh has that come back to byte people!!  (data stream(s) having any hex character in any position).

Just say'n

Steve Thompson



On 12/22/2023 2:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:30:10 +0000, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
    ...
Your option works, however, there is another option to make jcl skip steps with 
enclosing the steps as data.

For example, if you had 10 steps and you want only first 6 steps to run then 
simply add //SAVE    DD DATA,DLM=## after step 5 and everything else below it 
will be ignored .  It also will give the flexibility of skipping some steps in 
between and run later steps too.

I've used that technique also to introduce free form comments, avoiding
the tedious "//*".

Prudently, you should inspect your JCL to ensure there are no
happenstance occurrences of your chosen delimiter.


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