Processing for jobs in a job group

Jobs that are part of a job group go through INPUT and CONVERSION processing like any other batch jobs (they have a new SCHEDULE JCL statement to identify the job group they are part of). After input, they are placed into the SETUP phase until they are eligible to run meaning all dependencies have been satisfied. At that point, they are either placed on the execution queue to run or canceled and queued to the OUTPUT phase. Jobs associated with a job group run normally, like any other batch job.

There is no propagation of attributes from a job group to the jobs within a job group. The affinity attributes of a job group (SYSAFF, SYSTEM, SCHENV) on the JOBGROUP statement do apply to all the jobs in the job group (they are ANDed into any affinity on the job). However, the accounting information and user identity associated with the job group do not apply to the jobs in the job group.