What is the purpose of coding CLASS parameter in job statement? – InterviewSolution

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1.	What is the purpose of coding CLASS parameter in job statement?
Answer» Based on the time duration and the number of resources required by the job, companies assign different job classes. These can be visualized as individual schedulers used by the OS to receive the jobs. Placing the jobs in the right scheduler will aid in easy execution of the jobs. Some companies have different classes for jobs in test and production environment. Valid values for CLASS parameter are A to Z characters and 0 to 9 numeric (of length 1). Following is the syntax − CLASS=0 to 9 \| A to Z

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