OUTPUT statement and dynamic allocation of output data sets
The OUTPUT statement is a utility-control-statement that you enter after the //SYSIN DD * JCL statement in the SYSIN statement.
The OUTPUT command must precede a statement that refers to it. All statements in the SYSIN data set are processed sequentially, so a new output descriptor named in an OUTPUT statement is available only for statements that follow it. You can use more than one OUTPUT statement in a SYSIN data set, but each output descriptor must have a different name. You must allocate the tape drive if required.
The order of the OUTPUT commands before the product statement is not important. For example, OUTPUT copy02 can precede OUTPUT copy01.
This following topics discuss the dynamic allocation options that you can include in an OUTPUT statement in your BMC AMI Utilities SYSIN data set: