JCL Parameter Passing & WRITE WORKFILE

[Douglas_Kelly]

From IBM’s documentation: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.ieab600/xj3paus.htm

//**PAUSE Statement

z/OS V1R11.0 MVS JCL Reference z/OS V1R10.0-V1R11.0
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Purpose

Use the //**PAUSE statement to halt an input reader temporarily. When you enter a //**PAUSE statement through an input reader, JES3 issues a message and waits for the operator to reply. To start the input reader, the system operator must issue a *START command or a remote work station with console level 15 must send a start message.

The //**PAUSE statement is intended primarily for system checkout and test. It should be issued only by remote work stations.

What are you actually trying to do in your JCL? Do you need to write a message to the operator?

//CMSYNIN DD statement is an input dataset. If you find examples in your reference of //SYSIN DD statements, they are the same as //CMSYNIN. The “SYSIN” and “CMSYNIN” are names used by the application programs to refer to the input dataset.