Limitation on the number of job steps

The default maximum number of steps that can be included in each job is 255. If this number is exceeded, the following message is issued: 
IEFC602I EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF EXECUTE STATEMENTS
The allowed maximum decreases by one, each time one of the following steps is added:
  • An EQQDELDS step via EQQUX001.
  • An EQQCLEAN step as part of restart and cleanup processing.
  • A dummy last step if the RCLOPTS DUMMYLASTSTEP keyword is used.
If you add two of the steps above, the limitation for the maximum number of steps in each HCL Workload Automation submitted job goes down to 253. If you add all three steps, it becomes 252.