The JOB statement is the first JCL statement in a batch job. It marks the beginning of a job and, when jobs are stacked in the input stream, marks the end of the control statements for the preceding job. This statement consists of four fields. The format is:

//jobname JOB operands comments

where:

jobname

is required and is used to identify the job to the system.

JOB

is the JCL term that identifies the type of statement.

operands

specifies the specific processing options the system uses when processing this job.

comments

specifies optional user-supplied information pertaining to the function of this statement.