Basic IBM JCL

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

Prerequisites

The student must have basic knowledge of TSO/ISPF.