IBM Mainframe Tutorial

This is the one of the way of passing data to program. There are two 
       syntax's to pass data.

                  Syntax1  ->  //MYJOB   JOB   (W234),'RAMESH'
                               //STEP1   EXEC  PGM=COBPROG
                               //SYSIN   DD    *
                                 
                               /*

                  Syntax2  ->  //MYJOB   JOB   (E345),'KRISHNA REDDY'
                               //STEP1   EXEC  PGM=COBPROG
                               //SYSIN   DD    DATA
                                 
                               /*