JCL - Advanced VSE Job Control

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

JCL - Advanced VSE Job Control

Audience

Operators, Programmers and other Personnel, who need to use JCL for their job requirement. Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of the VSE and the Operating System and completion of Datatrain’s JCL – Basic VSE Job Control course or similar.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Understand the function of JCL.
• Be familiar with the different parameters and the options that can be used with JCL.
• Use the correct format when coding parameters.
• Use JCL statements to select the job attributes required.
• Recognize Return Codes and their values.
• Understand the use of symbolic parameters.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Standard Labels

• Standard Labels
• External and Internal Labels
• VOL1 Label Information Area
• LSERV
• Standard Labels and Operands

Unit 2: The LIBDEF & LIBDROP Statements

• The functions of the LIBDEF Statement
• Search Chain
• LIBDEF Operands
• The functions of the LIBDROP Statement
• LIBDROP Operands
• The functions and Operands of the LIBLIST Statement

Unit 3: Coding a Job Stream

• How to code a Job Stream, step by step, with instructions

Unit 4: Coding a Job Stream to Execute a Program

• Coding a Job Stream to execute a program
• Components of a Job Stream
• JCL, Job Step, JCP, Exec Statement, /&, JECL
• Submitting Jobs
• Executing a Program
• Online / Batch Processing

Unit 5: Conditional JCL

• GOTO Statement
• LABEL Statement
• ON Statement
• IF Statement
• SETPARM Statement
• Symbolic Parameters
• Return Codes

Duration

(Currently no course duration information)

Minimum Requirements

Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT (Workstation and Server), Version 4+/Windows 2000, Windows XP.
Hardware – Recommended Configurations:

¨ Windows NT 4.0 Server with SP6 or Windows 2000 Server
¨ Pentium 200Mhz or higher (dual Pentium III processors recommended)
¨ 64 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
¨ 200 MB available hard disk space (1 GB recommended)
¨ Ethernet (10 Mbps) network adapter. Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) recommended.
¨ TCP/IP services
¨ JRun Pro 3.1

¨ IIS 4.0 or greater
¨ Personal Web Server for Windows 95
Client Minimum Configuration: 486processor, with 32MB RAM
Client Recommended Configuration: Pentium II, with 64 MB RAM
Modem: 24.4 kbps or greater
Connectivity Requirements for Datatrain v 4: Any standard TCP/IP connection to an HTTP server.
Macromedia Flash 5: Flash 5 is required. Datatrain detects and warns if Flash is not installed or needs to be upgraded.

Microsoft Internet Explorer – 4.72, 5.00, 5.50, and 6
Netscape – 4.71 and 4.75 (4.72, as well as 6 and greater are NOT supported)
Screen Resolution: Any
Audio: Datatrain v 4 courses do not have audio.

Media

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