Multiple choice technology mainframe

A utility program that does nothing

  1. IEBNONE

  2. IEBGENER

  3. IEBDUMMY

  4. IEFBR14
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Explanation

IEFBR14 is a famous IBM mainframe utility program that literally does nothing - it's a no-operation program used in JCL for various purposes like allocating datasets or step sequencing. It contains a single BR (Branch Register) 14 instruction which simply returns control to the caller.

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