Editing Job Control Language (section)

==={{anchor}}Procedures===
'''Procedures''' permit grouping one or more "''EXEC PGM=''" and ''DD'' statements and then invoking them with "''EXEC PROC=''procname" -or- simply "EXEC procname" <ref>the default for the EXEC statement is PROC=</ref>

A facility called a Procedure Library allowed pre-storing procedures.

====PROC & PEND====
Procedures can also be included in the job stream by terminating the procedure with a <code>// PEND</code> statement, then invoking it by name the same was as if it were in a procedure library.

For example:
<syntaxhighlight lang="jcl" highlight="1,6">
//SUMPRINT PROC 
//PRINT    EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSUT1   DD   DSN=CEO.FILES.DAYEND.RPT24A,DISP=SHR
//SYSUT2   DD   SYSOUT=A
//SYSIN    DD   DUMMY
//         PEND
// EXEC SUMPRINT
</syntaxhighlight>