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You can't set the RC in JCL with a JCL statement, but you COULD exec a COBOL
pgm that set the value of RETURN-CODE for the step the pgm was executed in.
The value of the RC in your first step would remain that value for the
during of the job.  In other words, replace // SET RC=4 by // EXEC
PGM=SETRC4 then test the result of the step executing SETRC4.  Each step
returns it's own RC, so in ob containing 4 steps, there are 4 different RCs
you can test.

Denis <grossnou@antispam.skynet.be> wrote in message
news:8c1rst$dnl$1@hardcopy.ny.jpmorgan.com...
> (I know that this question is off-topic but I do not know in which
newsgroup
> to post-it)
> I have a JCL question: Is it possible to reset the RC system variable in a
> JCL ? for example, with a statement like:
> // SET RC=0
> Obviously this statement does not work as RC it is not a normal "variable"
>
> The goal is to have a JCL like the following:
>
> EXEC PGM=P1
> ...
> //  IF (RC GE 8) THEN   <--- start of the "does not work" construction
> //   SET RC=4                 <--- does not work the idea is to "reset"
the
> RC variable to 4
> // ENDIF                          <--- end of the "does not work"
> construction
>
> // IF (RC GE 4) THEN  <--- want to test with RC = 4 even if S1 ended with
> RC=8
> file://S2 EXEC PGM=P2
> ...
> // ENDIF
>SNIP<