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What is the primary purpose of the IDCAMS utility in JCL?

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  • Data set manipulation
  • File organization
  • Job execution control
  • System configuration
IDCAMS is primarily used for data set manipulation in JCL
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In JCL, you can specify input data for a program using the _______ statement.
In a JCL job, you need to create a new VSAM dataset and then load it with data from a flat file. Describe the sequence of IDCAMS commands you would use.

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