Utility Control Statements

IEBDG is controlled by the utility control statements that are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. IEBDG utility control statements
Statement	Use
DSD	Specifies the ddnames of the input and output data sets. One DSD statement must be included for each set of utility control statements.
FD	Defines the contents and lengths of fields to be used in creating output records.
REPEAT	Specifies the number of times a CREATE statement or a group of CREATE statements are to be used in generating output records.
CREATE	Defines the contents of output records.
END	Marks the end of a set of IEBDG utility control statements.

Any number of sets of control statements can appear in a single job step. Each set defines one data set. A set of control statements contains one DSD statement, any number of FD, CREATE and REPEAT statements, and one END statement when INPUT is omitted from the FD statements.

General continuation requirements for utility control statements are described in Continuing utility control statements.