Statement Range Considerations

Care should be taken when using the asterisk on initialization statements and commands. Processing times can increase. For example, the statement NODE(*) increases processing time drastically, although no additional nodes are actually created, and no changes are made to nodes outside the defined range. Likewise, the command, $T NODE(*), increases processing time.

However, initialization statement processing is different. As an example, for the PRT(nnnn) initialization statement:

PRT(*) resets values previously established.
PRT(1-*) defines values not yet established.

The following table lists JES2 initialization statements that have this "dual" form of processing.

Table 1. JES2 initialization statements with "dual" processing.
JES2 initialization statements with "dual" processing
EXIT(nnnn)	L(nnn).JT(n)	OFF(n).JT	PRT(nnnn)	R(nnn).RD(n)
JOBCLASS(nnnn)	L(nnn).ST(n)	OFF(n).ST	PUN(nnnn)	REDIRect(nnn)
JOBPRTY(nnnn)	LOGON(nnn)	OFF(n).SR	RDR(nnn)	SSI(nnn)
UTCLASS(nnnn)	MEMBER(nnnn)	OFF(n).JR	R(nnn).PR(n)	RMT(nnn)
OUTPRTY(nnnn)	NODE(nnn)	OFFLOAD(nnn)	R(nnn).PU(n)	TRACE(nnn)
PROCLIB(nnn)