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Mainframe: Applying JCL

Audience

Prospective IT managers, systems programmers, application developers, system integrators, network administrators

Prerequisites

No mainframe computing experience or knowledge is necessary, but an understanding of computer hardware and operating systems is assumed; the previous courses in the Mainframe curriculum

Course Aim

To introduce students to mainframe Job Control Language

Learning Objectives

Discuss temporary data sets, advanced space allocation, and explain how to use SMS. Describe how to control sysout data by using control statements. Explain how to invoke and use procedures and how to modify statements. Discuss symbolic parameters.

Topics Covered

Data set allocation - Temporary and dummy data sets - Space allocation - Using SMS - Concatenating data sets - Hands-on: Allocating a data set Sysout data - OUTPUT JCL and the DD OUTPUT parameter - JES /*OUTPUT and //*FORMAT statements - Other JES control statements Using procedures - Invoking procedures - Modifying statements - Symbolic parameters - Hands-on: Using a procedure