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Hi,

I have a JCL with 6 steps.
If I want to execute only 4th step, What parameter needs to be specified?

Is this a PROC or instream

There are no parameters that allow you to do this. You must edit the JCL, extract the fourth step, and run it. If the job is executing a procedure from a PROCLIB, you can copy the PROCLIB member to your job, make it an instream procedure, and then delete everything but the fourth step.

Although for a PROC you could use the following on the jobcard
RESTART=Procname.Procstepname,COND=(0,LE)

I am not restarting the job

It does not matter if you are restarting the job or not - RESTART tells the system at which step you want to start or restart. However there is no parameter that says STOP AFTER so you have to force an abend in the following step the esaiest way to do this is either to provide a STEPLIB to a library that does not have the program to be executed in it or to over-ride, or supply, a DD with a dataset that does not exist (will not work under JES3 because it checks for datasets before the job starts).

IEBEDIT, Yes by using IEBEDIT utility not only one step you can run all the steps whatever you want. Like 2,4,5,8............ like that.

You can either use Cond parameter or can use IEBEDIT utility.


xxxxx.yyyyy.zzzzz This input dataset is your jcl which contains the steps.

Thanks Smita for the wonderful answer