Overview

Header Fields

A job begins with a job header followed by data and ends with a job trailer. For more information about headers and trailers, see the IBM publication Network Job Entry Formats and Protocols (SC23-0070).

You can use -1 to set any bit field.


Field names

The first four characters of each header or trailer field name indicate the header type and section.

N NJE

DH Data set header

G – General section

C – RCCS section

A – 3800 section

S – Output processing section

T – Security section

V – RSCS section

P – POWER section

B – Internal custom section

D – LPD/user custom section

JH Job header

G – General section

E – Schedule section

T – Security section

A – Accounting section

2 – JES2 section

P – POWER section

JT Job trailer

G – General section

S – Accounting section

Data set header section

A job can begin with a job header followed by data, and end with a job trailer. For NJE jobs, the data between the header and trailer can be either SYSIN or SYSOUT data.

An NJE SYSIN job contains JCL for a job and one or more SYSIN data sets. It might or might not contain data set headers. If a data set does not contain 80-byte fixed records, the data set is preceded by a data set header that contains only a record characteristics change section.

An NJE SYSOUT job contains one or more SYSOUT data sets. One or more data set headers precede each SYSOUT data set.

A data set header contains a prefix section, a general section, and any of the other listed sections.

Job header section

An NJE job, which can contain SYSIN or SYSOUT data, must include a job header to indicate the start of the job.

The job header can contain the following sections.

The job header can also include several subsections, depending on where the job originated. All NJE products must have a general section in the job header.

Job trailer section

Job trailer indicates the end of a job and is divided into sections, depending on the networking facility where the job originated. All networking facilities require a job trailer general section.

The job trailer has the following sections.