CTL

Control Card (CTL) is the datasets (can also be an instream data) which has the information likes SYSIN, SYSTIN, etc. It also provides information specific to a particular program in a format that the program writer defines. For example, DFSORT has control statements such as SORT, MERGE, INCLUDE, OMIT, INREC, OUTREC, SUM, OUTFIL, OPTION, etc. These are all defined in "z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide"

Linkage Editor Control Statements

Include Statements

INCLUDE statement implies dependencies on “Program” file.

• INCLUDE PROGRAM
• INCLUDE LIBRARY(PROGRAM)

Where program is the name of the Program (COBOL, JCL, PROC, REXX, PL1, RPG, ASM, LNK, EZT or CTL) in the project. LIBRARY is the user specified sub-library. Example for the library are PRODLIB, MODLIB.