Understanding the OUTDES statement

An application or its users build OUTDES statements to dynamically define processing options for a system output (SYSOUT) data set. The OUTDES statement is an alternate form of an OUTPUT JCL statement that is used in a dynamic output environment. See Dynamic output for more information on the dynamic output environment. The OUTDES syntax consists of the OUTDES statement, operands, keyword operands, subparameters, and sublist elements that an application or its users can request SJFREQ VERIFY to validate and build text units to represent. Each OUTDES operand and keyword operand represents an individual output processing option.

This information describes considerations for using the OUTDES statement followed by a detailed description of the syntax.