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JCL Considerations

When submitting a MERGE JOURNAL statement through the batch command facility, in addition to the standard JCL required for the batch command facility, you must also include statements to define:

• SYS001 to point to the concatenated set of archived journal files or merged journal files
• JRNM01 to point to a single merged journal file. If no such file exists, JRNM01 must be specified as DUMMY
• SYS002 to point to the merged output file. The output file will have the block size that is specified for the archive journal file in the DMCL used for the merge
• Any sort work files needed by your local sort

To use a manual recovery input control file, include a CTRLIN file definition or DD statement in the IDMSBCF execution JCL. To use a manual recovery output control file, include a CTRLOUT file definition or DD statement in the IDMSBCF execution JCL. The format of these files is fixed block with a record length of 80.

Note: For more information about the generic JCL used to execute the batch command facility, see the chapter for your operating system in this guide.