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This course is designed to teach you how to use z/OS Job Control Language (JCL) and selected z/OS utility programs in an online batch environment. Both Storage Management Subsystem (SMS) and non-SMS JCL are discussed. Machine lab exercises complement the lecture material.
Students should have:
- Basic knowledge of information systems (IS) technologies.
- Familiarity with z/OS concepts and how these systems support the Enterprise Servers. This knowledge can be obtained by attending course An Introduction to the z/OS Environment (ES05GB)
- Code basic JCL statements using proper syntax and coding rules, including JCL for:
- Creating new data sets
- Referencing existing data sets
- Condition code testing
- IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF constructs
- Generation data groups
- Output routing
- JCL enhancements introduced by various releases of Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS), OS/390, and z/OS
- Identify Storage Management Subsystem requirements
- Code instream and cataloged procedures
- Use symbolic parameters in procedures
- Code procedure overrides and additions super
- Use selected utility programs
- Describe tape processing facilities
- Code sort and merge control statements and associated JCL statements
- Recognize and resolve common Abnormal Terminations (ABENDs)
Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1: Introduction to JCL
- Unit 2: JOB, EXEC, and DD statements
- Unit 3: DD statement parameters: A second look
- Lab
Day 2
- Lab review: Day 1
- Unit 3: DD statement parameters, a second look (continued)
- Unit 4: Introduction to utilities and conditional execution
- Unit 5: Data management, organization, and format
- Lab
Day 3
- Lab review: Day 2 lab
- Unit 5: Data management, organization, and format (continued)
- Unit 6: Generation data groups
- Unit 7: Procedures
- Unit 8: More about utilities
- Lab
Day 4
- Lab review: Day 3 lab
- Unit 8: More about utilities (continued)
- Unit 9: More on procedures
- Unit 10: Selected JCL topics
- Unit 11: Sort/Merge
- Lab
Day 5
- Lab review: Day 4 lab
- Unit 12: Multivolume and tape allocation
- Unit 13: ABENDs
- Optional lab
