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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Modifying Statements in a Cataloged Procedure
References and external links :
- Drona Series, JCL Study Material : Mainframe Gurukul.com
- IBM MVS JCL Reference Guide
Q. Is it possible to override/modify the contents in a Cataloged Procedure?
Somtimes, we would like to change/modify some statements inside a cataloged/stored
procedure. We can change
- EXEC Statement of the PROC
- DD Statement of the PROC
Modifying a parameter of the EXEC Statement
Suppose we have written the following cataloged procedure.
//MYPROC PROC
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,TIME=10
//INFILE DD DSN=HERC04.DEMO.INPUT,DISP=SHR
//OUTFILE DD DSN=HERC04.DEMO.OUTPUT,DISP=SHR
Now, suppose, we have written a main JCL/Batch Job as follows :
//MYJOB JOB A123,QUASAR
//LIB1 JCLLIB ORDER=(HERC04.DEMO.PROCLIB)
//PROCSTEP EXEC PROC=MYPROC
//
Now, if we want to change the TIME parameter of MYPROC to 20, in the main JCL/
Batch Job, we should write :
//MYJOB JOB A123,QUASAR
//LIB1 JCLLIB ORDER=(HERC04.DEMO.PROCLIB)
//PROCSTEP EXEC PROC=MYPROC,TIME.STEP01=20
//
We simply need to add .proc-stepname to the keyword parameter. Since, we want to
modify TIME parameter of MYPROCs STEP01, we can refer to it as TIME.STEP01.
Note : We cannot modify PGM parameter of the EXEC statement.
Adding a parameter to the EXEC Statement
On the same lines, we can also add parameters to the EXEC statement. Let me show
you another example :
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//MYPROC PROC
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,TIME=10
//INFILE DD DSN=HERC04.DEMO.INPUT,DISP=SHR
//OUTFILE DD DSN=HERC04.DEMO.OUTPUT,DISP=SHR
Suppose, in the main JCL that calls this procedure, we would like to add a REGION
parameter on the EXEC statement.
//MYJOB JOB A123,QUASAR
//LIB1 JCLLIB ORDER=(HERC04.DEMO.PROCLIB)
//PROCSTEP EXEC PROC=MYPROC,REGION.STEP01=256K
//
Nullifying a parameter on the EXEC Statement
Suppose we want to nullify the TIME parameter of the Cataloged Procedure MYPROC.
In that case, we would have to add the following to our main JCL/Batch JOB.
//MYJOB JOB A123,QUASAR
//LIB1 JCLLIB ORDER=(HERC04.DEMO.PROCLIB)
//PROCSTEP EXEC PROC=MYPROC,TIME.STEP01=
//
Leave the keyword.procstepname field as blank. Dont assign any value. So, if we
keep TIME.STEP01 as blank, it nullifies the the value of the TIME parameter
assigned to job-step STEP01 of the procedure MYPROC.
Adding or modifying DD Statements
We can
- Add/Modify/Nullify(delete) parameters on DD statements in the PROC.
- Add new DD Statements to the PROC.
Let us see how it is done with an example.
//MYPROC PROC
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,TIME=10
//INFILE DD DSN=HERC04.DEMO.INPUT,DISP=SHR
//OUTFILE DD DSN=HERC04.DEMO.OUTPUT,DISP=SHR
Suppose we would like to modify the INFILE and OUTFILE DD statements of the PROC.
This can be done in the main JCL/Batch Job as follows.
//MYJOB JOB A123,QUASAR
//LIB1 JCLLIB ORDER=(HERC04.DEMO.PROCLIB)
//PROCSTEP EXEC PROC=MYPROC
//STEP01.INFILE DD DSN=HERC04.INPUT.COB,DISP=SHR
//STEP01.INFILE DD DSN=HERC04.OUTPUT.COB,DISP=SHR
Thus, we must mention the ddname as procstepname.ddname. If such a ddname does not
exist in the PROC, it is simply added to the PROC.
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Example of modifying the DD Statement in PROC
Suppose we have a Cataloged Procedure called MYPROC, stored in the default
System Library SYS1.PROCLIB. The JCL Listing for MYPROC is given below -


In the above case, MYPROC reads the contents of the Dataset HERC03.DEMO.MYLIB(INPUT), and prints it(to the default printer).
Suppose, we would like to call MYPROC from another JCL. However, while calling MYPROC, we would like to override
the DSN parameter of SYSUT1 DD Statement. We want that MYPROC should print the contents of another dataset HERC03.DEMO.MYLIB
(INPUT2) instead of
HERC03.DEMO.MYLIB(INPUT). To do this, we need to override DSN parameter of job-step PSTEP01 of the PROC MYPROC. The main JCL/
Calling program would look like this :

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