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what happened when we are not mentioned the positional parameters in JCL job card?? can't we use the jcl pgm without positional parameters??

any one Check and tell me.. I dnt have mainframes access.

There are just two positional parameters in the JCL JOB statement: the "accounting" parameter and the programmer name parameter. The "accounting" parameter used to contain a number of positional parameters in JES2. I've long since forgotten all of them, and most of them can be specified as keywords in the /*JOBPARM JECL statement. The first few are account number, room ID, max lines in thousands of lines, max cards, ... All of them are limited to 4 characters. I presume that's what you are refering to.

What "JCL program"?

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pinky wrote:... can't we use the jcl pgm without positional parameters??

any one Check and tell me.. I dnt have mainframes access.

No one here can answer this question. You may not have mainframe access, but you do have access to mainframe documentation. If you consult this documentation you will find the answer is "It depends." Some shops require the use of the "accounting" parameter (the first positional parameter on the JOB JCL statement).