MVS and OS/390 JCL and Utilities
- Recommended Duration:
- 3 Days
- Version
- OS/390 Course is also suitable for MVS/ESA shops.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to code JCL to run test and production batch jobs, use the most common batch utility programs, and use the Sort/Merge product.
- Audience
- Programmers and analysts who need to know how to code JCL to run jobs in an MVS environment. Anyone who needs to gain a basic understanding of the structure and workflow in MVS.
- Prerequisites
- The student entering this course should have 3 months recent experience using ISPF/PDF, especially the text editor or have completed the "Introduction to TSO/ISPF" course within the last 12 months.
- Major Topics
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- Data Sets and Libraries; DASD Organization
- VTOC's and Catalogs
- MVS Organization and Workflow
- MVS/ESA Structure
- JOB, EXEC, DO, OUTPUT statements
- Viewing output using ISPF 3.8, and one of SDSF, IOF, or Flasher
- Utilities: IEFBR14, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER
- Introduction to IDCAMS
- Cataloged and In-stream Procedures
- Sort / Merge
- GDGs
- SMS - Storage Management Subsystem
- The New JCL
- Exercises
- There are 12 machine exercises.
- Notes
- This course is combined with "Introduction to TSO/ISPF" in the five-day course "MVS Fundamentals: ISPF, JCL, & Utilities". Students with experience in MVS JCL can take a one day course, "Exploiting MVS/ESA Using SMS and the New JCL" to gain some hands-on experience using the JCL introduced most recently.