JCL Series
Total Time: 24 - 46 hours

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JCL: Fundamentals Time: 6 - 11 hours JCL301 JCL: Fundamentals covers the basic principles and practices needed by a new user to understand and code commonly used MVS Job Control Language statements. JCL Overview Jobstreams Building Jobstreams Defining Data Sets in Your Jobstreams Procedures Looking at your Output

JCL: Job Processing Time: 5 - 10 hours JCL302 JCL: Job Processing continues the discussion of MVS Job Control Language statements begun in the first course in this series. This course covers parameters and options coded on JOB, EXEC, JES2 and JES3 statements that deal with how a job is processed through the operating system. Introduction Job Identification Job Resources and Performance Conditional Job Processing Job Processing and Communication

JCL: Data Sets Time: 6 - 11 hours JCL303 JCL: Data Sets covers principles and practices of coding data set information. Course Overview Using Permanent Data Sets Cataloging Data Sets Using Temporary Data Sets Passing Data Sets Concatenating Data Sets Generation Data Sets Space Allocation Considerations for Tapes

JCL: Procedures Time: 7 - 14 hours JCL304 JCL: Procedures defines and explains procedure libraries, instream procedures and cataloged procedures. It discusses positional, keyword and symbolic parameters as well as overriding parameters of an EXEC statement in a procedure. Overriding DD statements in a procedure are also explained. Introduction Definition Execution Symbolic Parameters Overriding Procedures Modifying Parameters on an EXEC Statement

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