How to identify a step

A step has the following identifiers:
STEPNAME
It is the procedure invocation step name. It is blank if the step is not in a procedure.
PROCSTEP
It is the step name in the JCL procedure or the job step name if the step is not in a procedure.
The following rules apply to these step identifiers:
  • If you specify blank for both STEPNAME and PROCSTEP, the return code dependency applies to the entire job.
  • The combination of STEPNAME blank and PROCSTEP not blank is not supported.
When you define or change a step-level dependency in the database or in the current plan:
  • Do not specify a step that is duplicated in the corresponding JCL.
  • Consider that blank PROCSTEP and STEPNAME delays the check at job completion time.
Note: The scheduler cannot check the actual step names in the JCL, which might be located in any user library of the tracker system and updated independently of the database definitions.