IBM OS/390 User Manual

Table 7 (Page 2 of 2). VSE Job Control Statements S u m m a r y

ON

Causes specified action to be done if
the specified condition is true after
any step in the following job stream.

// EXEC COND= or
//IF/ENDIF

OPTION

Sets one or more of the job control
options.

// EXEC PARM=

PAUSE

Causes a pause immediately after
processing this statement, or at the
end of the current job step.

No equivalent in OS/390.

PROC

Defines and initializes symbolic
parameters in a procedure.

/ / PROC

PWR

Passes a PRELEASE or PHOLD
command to POWER.

/*$command

QUERY

Displays information on data spaces
and standard options.

No equivalent in OS/390.

RESET

Resets I/O assignments to the
standard assignments.

No equivalent in OS/390.

RSTRT

Restarts a checkpointed program.

// JOB RESTART=

SETPARM

Assigns a character string or return
code to the specified parameter.

/ / SET

SETPFIX

Defines limits for PFIXing pages.

No equivalent in OS/390.

SETPRT

Loads the IBM 3800 buffers.

// DD or
// OUTPUT

STDOPT

Resets system defaults.

No equivalent in OS/390.

SYSDEF

Defines limits and defaults for data
spaces.

No equivalent in OS/390.

TLBL

Contains file label information for
tape label checking and writing.

/ /   D D   d s n a m e =   ,   L A B E L =

UPSI

(User Program Switch Indicators)
Allows the user to set program
switches that can be tested.

No equivalent in OS/390.
(Use // EXEC PARM=)

VDISK

Defines the layout of a virtual disk.

No equivalent in OS/390.

ZONE

Initializes the zone field in the
communications region.

No equivalent in OS/390.

/.

Label statement.

No equivalent in OS/390.

/*

Indicates the end of a data file.

/*

/ &

Indicates the end of a job.

/ /

*

Job control comments.

See JES2 control statements
below

/ +

Indicates the end of a procedure or
librarian End-of-Data.

/ / PEND

Chapter 4. Job Control Language (JCL) Differences and Considerations