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Attend A JCL COurse - Learn To Create And Control IBM Mainframe Job Submission

"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction and also covered some intermediate level topics that we needed to know. Clive gave us some best practice ideas and tips to take away. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

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Highlights

Define the function and use of JCL statements
Code syntactically correct JCL statements and demonstrate this by practical exercises

Deal with JCL failures

Recognise, improve and correct invalid, inefficient and “bad practice” JCL

Understand, Code and run JCL to correctly control the execution of job steps by means of Condition execution

Retrieve existing Data Sets and create new ones

Understand, code and override both in‑stream and cataloged procedures

Understand the requirement for Generation Data Groups and the coding requirements for handling them correctly in Jobs

Course Details

JCL statements

            JOB Statement
                        Useful positional and Keyword Parameters
            EXEC Statement
                        Useful positional and Keyword Parameters

DD Statement

                        Overview
                        Description
                        In-stream positional parameters
                        SYSOUT operand - positional parameters
                        SYSOUT operand - keyword parameters

            DSN operand
            DISP operand
            Concatenation
            Special DD names
            UNIT operand
            VOLUME operand
            LABLE operand
            SPACE operand
            DCB operand

OUTPUT Statement

Data

            Data set structure
            Data set processing
            z/OS catalogs
            Storage Management Subsystem

Conditional Execution

            COND keyword parameter
            IF Statement
                        Relational expressions
                        Relational operators

JCL Procedures

            JCL procedure concepts
            The PROC Statement
            Executing procedures
            Coding rules
            Symbolic parameters
            Overriding and adding control statements
            DD Statement overrides
            EXEC Statement overrides
            JCLLIB and INCLUDE Statements
            SET Statement

Generation Data Groups

            Absolute Generation Numbers
            Relative Generation Numbers
            Defining GDGs
            Creating GDGs
            SMS and Generation Data Groups

Who should attend

Users who need to initiate batch jobs for processing in an z/OS environment. Programmers who will be using the IBM mainframe for program testing.

Feedback

4.8 out of 5 average

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022

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More about this course

This JCL course teaches the student to code and test efficient JCL. It is designed for programmers, developers, operators and production control staff who need to submit and run jobs on z/OS.Client feedback shows that delegates on our courses will best engage when they can relate course topics to their own day-to-day practices and requirements. Where possible, we run this course as a consultative, workshop-style event, in which discussion of relevant topics takes place in relation to the delegates' own applications and scenarios.