MVS JCL Workshop

Course Overview

I. JCL Statements and Syntax

II. JOB Statement A. CLASS, MSGCLASS, NOTIFY, REGION, TYPRUN B. JOB operands

III. EXEC Statement

• A. PGM, PROC, COND, PARM, REGION
• B. EXEC operands

IV. IF…THEN, ELSE Statements for Conditional Execution

V. 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

VI.PROC and PEND Statements - In-Stream PROC

VII. JCLLIB Statement: Defining a User PROCLIB and Executing PROCs

VIII. INCLUDE and SET Statements: Creating INCLUDE Members with SYMBOLICS

IX. IBM Utility SORT Creating JCL for Sorting Sequential Files

Prerequisites

The student must have basic knowledge of TSO/ISPF.