MVS JCL Workshop

Summary

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.

Prerequisites

The student must have basic knowledge of TSO/ISPF.

Duration

3 Days/Lecture & Lab

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.

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

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