Utility Control Facility (DFSUCF00)

The Utility Control Facility is a program that controls the execution of reorganization and recovery utilities.

Control here means that it generates many of the JCL statements you must create and eliminates the need to sequence the various utilities for execution. The only reorganization utilities that cannot be run under the control of UCF are the Database Surveyor utility and the Partial Database Reorganization utility. In addition to controlling the execution of other utilities, UCF allows you to stop and then later restart a job.