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Basic IBM JCL

3 Days

Description

This course consists of specialized labs and lecture designed to acclimate users to the IBM mainframe Job Control Language using the z/OS operating system. The student is introduced to the MVS JCL language used for production processing.

Topics

  • Identify Job Control Language: format and syntax
  • Define the JOB and JOB STEP concepts
  • EXEC statement
  • DD statements
  • Referbacks and concatenation
  • PROC and PEND statements
  • JCLLIB statement
  • INCLUDE and SET statements
  • IF, THEN, ELSE and ENDIF statements
  • Code JCL and control statements required for proper execution of utility programs

Audience

This course is designed for personnel who are new to the MVS operating system or are seeking a refresher course in basic terminology, and JCL program execution.

No Upcoming Public Classes

There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a Basic IBM JCL class.

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Course Overview

  • 1 JCL Statements and Syntax
  • 2 JOB Statement
    • A CLASS, MSGCLASS, NOTIFY, REGION, TYPRUN
    • B JOB operands
  • 3 EXEC Statement
    • A PGM, PROC, COND, PARM, REGION
    • B EXEC operands
  • 4 IF…THEN, ELSE Statements for Conditional Execution
  • 5 DD Statements (Data Definition)
    • A In-stream data inputs
    • B SYSOUT (System Printer Output) and refer back
    • C DSN and DISP (Dataset Definition) and refer back
    • D Generation data groups
    • E Temporary datasets
    • F PDS and member
    • G Creating disk datasets
    • H UNIT
    • I SPACE
    • J DCB and refer back
    • K DF/SMS operands
    • L Creating tape datasets
    • M UNIT
    • N VOL
    • O LABEL
    • P Dataset concatenation
    • Q Special DD names
    • R JOBLIB, STEPLIB
    • S SYSABEND, SYSUDUMP, SYSMDUMP
    • T Assigning input or output to a NULLFILE
  • 6 PROC and PEND Statements - In-Stream PROC
  • 7 JCLLIB Statement: Defining a User PROCLIB and Executing PROCs
  • 8 INCLUDE and SET Statements: Creating INCLUDE Members with SYMBOLICS
  • 9 IBM Utility SORT Creating JCL for Sorting Sequential Files

No Upcoming Public Classes

There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a Basic IBM JCL class.

Private Training Available
No date scheduled, don’t see a date that works for you or looking for a private training event, please call 651-905-3729 or submit a request for further information here.
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Prerequisites

The student must have basic knowledge of TSO/ISPF.

No Upcoming Public Classes

There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a Basic IBM JCL class.

Private Training Available
No date scheduled, don’t see a date that works for you or looking for a private training event, please call 651-905-3729 or submit a request for further information here.
request a private session or new date


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