JCL: How to Skip Steps From Proc

Recently my friend has got a problem to skip steps in a proc. There are some 250 steps in the proc. His problem was to skip PS210 step from the proc.

JCL steps
JCL steps – how to skip the step you want from a proc.

I have given solution as follows. As in the highlighted code, we need to give COND in the JCL. So no need to make any change in the Proc.

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When we give COND.PS210(0,le), it validates with PS209 step’s return code. If the RC from PS209 is ‘0’. Then, the comparison is “0 LE 0 “, then the condition becomes true, then, the step will be by passed.

Job Card:

//Jobname  job (acct info), msglevel=(1,1),Notify=ABCDEF
//*
//JOBLIB  DD   DSN=MY.LIBRARY,DISP=SHR
//PROCLIB     JCLLIB ORDER=(Proc lib name)
//*
//Step1   Exec  TESTPROC,
//     COND.PS210(0,le)
//STEPLIB  DD   DSN=MY.LIBRARY,DISP=SHR
//

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