JCL/UTILITIES
Duration
Four Days
Prerequisite
A general knowledge of the IBM mainframe operating environment and some experience with TSO/ISPF.
Who Should Attend
Application programmer trainees, application programmers, technical support personnel, and others who use JCL and utilities on a regular basis.
Course Description
JCL/Utilities Workshop is designed to bring the novice in JCL to a minimum standard of performance and give the moderately experienced student additional insight into JCL and utilities. The student is introduced to JCL's benefits in an MVS, MVS/XA or MVS/ESA environment, its relationship to the operating system, PROCs, and the use of symbolic parameters. The major utilities, including SORT, are also overviewed.
Course Topics
- Introduction to Job Control Language
- JCL Statements and Syntax Requirements
- The JOB Statement
- The EXEC Statement
- In-Stream, Print, Display, and Dummy Data Sets
- Basic Disk and Tape Options
- Advanced Disk and Tape Features
- Storage Management Subsystems (SMS) Parameters
- Special DDNAMES
- Cataloged and In-Stream Procedures
- Using Generation Data Groups
- JES 2 Control Statements
- Common IBM Utilities
