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What is the purpose of DD DUMMY statement?

  1. Marks a deleted DD statement

  2. Begins an interpreted command stream

  3. Specifies no space allocation & no disposition processing

  4. Suppress command processing

  5. None of the above
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Explanation

The DD DUMMY statement is used to bypass I/O operations for a specific dataset. When a program attempts to read a DUMMY file, it receives an end-of-file immediately; when it writes, the data is discarded. No space is allocated and no disposition is processed.

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