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How many jobs i can submit through JCL

 
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itssrikanth4u

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:15 pm    Post subject: How many jobs i can submit through JCL
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Hi,
can one tell me how many jobs i can submit through jcl(maximum)
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anuradha

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:22 pm    Post subject:
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Hi Sri,

AFAIK there is no limit for number of jobs.But a single job can have only 255 steps on max.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:04 pm    Post subject:
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thanx a lot anu
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:44 am    Post subject:
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theoritically u can execute 255 steps
but u can try for more step it will execute more than 255 steps u cam try it
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:14 pm    Post subject: Oops.......
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H vishal,

For any job you can have max. 255 steps. When you try to execute any job with more than 255 steps it will give you JCL Error vishal.
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