PL/I External Control JCL Statement

Identically to the IBM® COBOL support, z/OS® Batch Runtime control statements are read from the //BCDIN file defined in the batch JCL.

The bcd.applicationLanguage statement is changed to accept the new LE value to indicate the program being launched is written in either COBOL or PL/I. Although the COBOL language value will still be accepted, the new LE value is the preferred syntax. The batch runtime processes both COBOL and PL/I applications in the same way.

The revised syntax is as follows:

Figure 1. bcd.applicationLanguage Syntax

bcd.applicationLanguage=JAVA | COBOL | LE

The bcd.applicationArgs statement is used to pass an application argument to the launched program. For PL/I, a single string up to 100 characters in length can be used.