Introduction - job control language (JCL)
This topic is divided into the following subtopics:
| Heading | Description |
|---|---|
| Understanding JCL | Explains the purpose of JCL and how it is used. |
| Exercise: creating and entering a job | Provides an example of JCL code that you can use as a basis for your own jobs. |
| More complex jobs | Explains how to create and use in-stream and cataloged procedures and how to group more than one job into input streams. |
| Additional information | Contains a worksheet for documenting installation conventions; explains how to use ISPF to allocate and edit a data set; explains how to use SDSF to view held output from a job; and lists utilities that you can use with JCL to accomplish various tasks. |