IBM Mainframe Forum

[arunkumar]

If condition is given in job card, what about first step, whether the condition is checked for it or not? If checked then with which return code is it compared?

[expat]

Return codes are checked against previously executed steps.
STEP1 has no previously executed steps, therefor has nothing to check against.

[Robert Sample]

From the JCL Language Reference manual:

16.5.4 Location in the JCL

You can specify the COND parameter on any EXEC statement in the job. However, the system evaluates a COND parameter on the first EXEC statement in a job as false.