The JOB card is obtained from the library and member specified on the JOBCARD operand of the GENERATE command. If the member name is not specified, “JOBCARD” is taken as the default member name. If the job card member is not found, message GIM64001E is issued.

The job card member can contain any number of records. However, the first record in the member must be the job card, and there must be room for an 8-character job name. This is because SMP/E does not check the format of the job card when generating jobs. The generated job name is stored in columns 3 through 10 of the first card read from the job card member.

//xxxxxxxx JOB 'accounting info',
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