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by **arunkumar** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:35 pm

If condition is given in job card, what about first step, whether the condition is checked for it or not? If checked then with which return code is it compared?

by **expat** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:37 pm

Return codes are checked against previously executed steps.
STEP1 has no previously executed steps, therefor has nothing to check against.

by **Robert Sample** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:41 pm

From the JCL Language Reference manual:

16.5.4 Location in the JCL

You can specify the COND parameter on any EXEC statement in the job. However, the system evaluates a COND parameter on the first EXEC statement in a job as false.

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