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Difference between Symbolic and an Overriding Parameter?
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:51 am
by Kailash
Hi,
What is the difference between symbolic and an overriding parameters? I found them to work same but I might be wrong..please guide.
Re: Difference between Symbolic and an Overriding Parameter?
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:20 pm
by zprogrammer
Symbolic parameters and Overriding parameters are not same.
Symbolic Paramaters are VARIABLES/SYMBOLS which are subtituted or overriden by values during execution time
Ex:&HLQ.
Also having symbolic parameters increases the re-usability
So this might be declared with some value value in job or in your scheduler which gets subtitued with values like DEV/TEST/UAT/PROD
Overriding parameters are used to override or nulllify DD/EXEC statements
Re: Difference between Symbolic and an Overriding Parameter?
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:19 am
by Robert Sample
An override parameter requires a procedure to be invoked for which the override is done. A symbolic parameter can be generated via the // SET statement in JCL and does not require any procedure be invoked to be generated or used in a job stream.
Re: Difference between Symbolic and an Overriding Parameter?
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 3:35 pm
by Kailash
Thanks PB and Robert.