Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

A PDS member that you happen to submit can contain "stuff" in front of a JOB card, if you happen to have an EXIT for submit, or a replacement for it. Else submit would generate a JOB card for you (asking you part of the jobname). Your post is complicated for me to understand. What does if...

JES2 and JES3 both allow commands before the JOB statement and JES2 allows /*PRIORITY and JES3 allows //**PAUSE before the JOB statement as well. Note, as pointed out elsewhere, that you can, technically, put anything you want before a JOB statement in a PDS member or sequential data set. HOWEVER, ...

Hello,

Can we write a line before a Job card in any JCL?

I searched the answer for it but could not find an answer. I think we can have a line before the job card or can we?