JCL and job setup operations
When manual tailoring of job statements is necessary, specify a setup operation to precede a job or started task operation. By using a setup operation you can ensure that jobs and started tasks are not submitted until the job statements have been suitably tailored.
A setup operation is an operation that is specified on a general
workstation that has the JCL setup attribute. The setup operation
is associated with the subsequent submission operation by two factors:
- The job name of the setup operation is the same as the job name of the submission operation.
- The setup operation is an immediate predecessor of the submission operation. This does not mean that the setup operation must immediately precede the submission operation in operation number order.
The setup operation should not itself have predecessors, because it is started manually and is therefore under control of the operator.