z/OS - Job Control Language (JCL), Procedures and Utilities

Seminar Content: This seminar provides participants with insight into the importance of Job Control Language (JCL) for controlling jobs in a z/OS operating system environment. You will learn to code JCL statements and procedures and to create and execute complete jobs. You will also gain basic knowledge of essential standard and utility programs such as SORT or IEBCOPY.

Group work and detailed practical exercises with discussion of the solutions will deepen the learned contents.

• Overview batch processing
• Job Entry Subsystem (JES)
• JCL structures
• Job life cycle
• Formal structure of the JCL
• Syntax
• Elements of the JCL
• Job Description
• Step and DD description
• File concatenation
• SMS parameters
• Conditional step execution
• IF / THEN / ELSE vs. COND statement
• INCLUDE Groups
• JCLLIB
• INCLUDE
• SET statements
• Procedures
• Internal and external procedures
• Structure and use of standard procedures
• IBM Utilities

Prices:

• Number of participants 1: The course can be booked as an in-house course for 1 or more participants on site for €3,295 + a travel allowance of €1,200.
• Number of participants 2-5: For 2 participants a flat rate of 6,090.00, each additional participant an additional 1,250.00 up to and including 5 participants.
• Number of participants 6-10: From the 6th participant up to and including 10 participants a flat rate of 10.900,- , from the 11th participant each additional participant costs an additional 1.000,- . + Plus a travel allowance of €1,200.