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    This document provides an overview of Job Control Language (JCL) used on mainframe systems. It defines JCL as the language used to control job execution and describes how it provides specifications to the operating system. The document outlines the topics to be covered, including defining online and batch workloads, what a job and step are, how JCL programming structure works, and syntax rules for coding JCL statements. It notes that JCL describes everything the operating system needs to know to process a job, including input/output requirements and hardware device requests.

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    This document provides an overview of Job Control Language (JCL) used on mainframe systems. It defines JCL as the language used to control job execution and describes how it provides specifications to the operating system. The document outlines the topics to be covered, including defining online and batch workloads, what a job and step are, how JCL programming structure works, and syntax rules for coding JCL statements. It notes that JCL describes everything the operating system needs to know to process a job, including input/output requirements and hardware device requests.

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    This document provides an overview of Job Control Language (JCL) used on mainframe systems. It defines JCL as the language used to control job execution and describes how it provides specifications to the operating system. The document outlines the topics to be covered, including defining online and batch workloads, what a job and step are, how JCL programming structure works, and syntax rules for coding JCL statements. It notes that JCL describes everything the operating system needs to know to process a job, including input/output requirements and hardware device requests.

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    Jcl-Ppt-1-Overview Session

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    This document provides an overview of Job Control Language (JCL) used on mainframe systems. It defines JCL as the language used to control job execution and describes how it provides specifications to the operating system. The document outlines the topics to be covered, including defining online and batch workloads, what a job and step are, how JCL programming structure works, and syntax rules for coding JCL statements. It notes that JCL describes everything the operating system needs to know to process a job, including input/output requirements and hardware device requests.

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    The key takeaways are that JCL is used to control job execution on mainframes, a job consists of one or more programs executed in sequence, and JCL describes the input/output requirements and resources needed to process a job.

    The purpose of JCL is to provide information to the operating system (MVS) about the work to be done, resources needed, and input/output requirements of a job.

    The main components of a job are the job itself, programs executed as steps within the job, and JCL which describes the job's requirements.

    MAINFRAMES

    JCL – Job Control Language


    NAGARAJU DOMALA
    JCL – JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE

    Session 1

    Nagaraju Domala
    Session Objectives
    At the end of this session participants will be able to

     Explain the role of JCL

     Explain JCL programming structure

    Nagaraju Domala
    JCL Overview - Topics

    1. Online and Batch workloads on mainframe


    2. What is Job?
    3. What is JCL?
    4. How a Job is processed by JES
    5. Syntax rules for coding JCL statements

    Nagaraju Domala
    Online and Batch workloads on mainframe

    Nagaraju Domala
    What is Job?
    A JOB is the execution of one or more related programs in sequence.
    Each Program to be executed by a Job is Called a Step.

    Ex: The first program sorts customer names in a sequence


    The second program generates a report .

    Nagaraju Domala
    What is JCL?
     The Language used to Control the execution of Job in the system
     To get your MVS system to do work for you, you must describe to the
    system the work you want done and the resources you will need.
     Job Control Language (JCL) provides this information to MVS as it is a
    means of communication between an application program and the
    computer's operating system.
     It is a set of control statements that provide the specifications necessary to
    process a JOB.
     It describes everything the operating system needs to know about a job’s
    input/output requirements, requests hardware devices and execute the job.

    Nagaraju Domala
    How a Job is processed by JES?
    User Actions System Actions
    Interprets
    Determine Create Submit the JCL and
    the Job the JCL Job Passes to
    MVS

    MVS does
    System Messages the Job

    JES Collects
    View and
    the output and
    Interpret
    Information
    the Output
    about the Job

    Nagaraju Domala
    Syntax rules for coding JCL statements
     JCL statements are coded in 80 byte records -
     Only 72 of the 80 chars available to code JCL -
     last eight columns of each record reserved for an optional
    sequence number

    Nagaraju Domala
    Syntax rules for coding JCL
    statements(contd..)
    identifier name operation parameters comments

    identifier Two slashes starting in column 1.


    exceptions : 1. For a delimiter statement /*
    2. For a comment statement //*

    name 1 to 8 alphanumeric or national characters


    Must start with a letter or national character
    Must begin in column 3

    operation Valid operation code.


    e.g. JOB,EXEC,DD,PROC,PEND
    Must be preceded and followed by a space.

    Nagaraju Domala
    Syntax rules for coding JCL
    statements(contd..)

    Parameters One or more parameters depending on the operation.


    Individual parameters are separated from one
    another by commas, no intervening spaces.

    Comments Comments may follow parameters ,Preceded by one


    space and not extending beyond 71 column.

    Nagaraju Domala

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