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[manoj nayak]

I want to know what is the significance fo the use of 'TERM' keyword in the DD atatement of an JCL.

[kolusu]

manoj nayak,

1. Click on "Quick Manuals" link on top of this page
2. Scroll to JCL section and click on the manual "Z/OS V1R4.0 MVS JCL Reference"
3. Click on
4. Type "term" without quotes in the search box and click on search
5. Read the 2nd search result

Kolusu
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[Nic Clouston]

What part of the description in the manual did you not understand?
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Utility and Program control cards are NOT, repeat NOT, JCL.

[manoj nayak]

AT FIRST THANKS TO YOUR RESPONSE.


Example 1

//DD1 DD TERM=TS


In a foreground job submitted from a TSO/E userid, this DD statement defines a data set coming from or going to the TSO/E userid.
Example 2

//DD1 DD TERM=TS,SYSOUT=*


In a background or batch job, the system ignores TERM=TS and recognizes a sysout data set. (An allocation error occurs if SYSOUT=* is not coded with TERM=TS.)
Example 3

//DD3 DD UNIT=3400-5,DISP=(MOD,PASS),TERM=TS,LABEL=(,NL),
// DCB=(LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=80)


In a foreground job, the system ignores all of the parameters in this example except TERM and DCB. In a batch job, the system ignores only the TERM parameter

'In the above manual specified i got to know that term is some what related to user and job, but still i didn't get a clear picture to make others understand about it'
That means not got the concept clearly.'

[Nic Clouston]

[arnold57]

Manoj,

TERM is ignored in any batch JCL you submit.

What you probably don't understand is that all TSO sessions have JCL associated with them. The JCL is in a procedure commonly called the "logon proc". While it is no longer common to do so, if TERM=TS is used on a DD statement in your logon proc, programs you run under TSO which read or write to that file will read from or write to the terminal.