Multiple choice technology programming languages

Which statement is used to mark the beginning of a job step, to assign a name to the step and to identify the program or procedure to be executed in the step?

  1. JOB

  2. EXEC

  3. STEP

  4. PROC

  5. None of the above
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Explanation

In JCL (Job Control Language for IBM mainframes), the EXEC statement marks the beginning of a job step, assigns a name to that step, and identifies the program or procedure to execute. The JOB statement starts the entire job, STEP is not a JCL statement, and PROC defines procedures (not executed directly with a PROC statement).

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