MVS & OS/390 JCL and Utilities

Course Number: 682-TF
Recommended Duration: 3 days

Intended Audience
Programmers, operators, analysts, support staff and users who need to know how to code JCL to run jobs in an MVS or OS/390 environment. Anyone who needs to gain a basic understanding of the structure and workflow in MVS or OS/390.

Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to run test and production batch jobs, use some common batch utility programs, and use a Sort/Merge program product.

Prerequisites
Students need a basic understanding of computer concepts. Although a programming background is not required, people with such a background will generally get the most out of this course.

Topics

MVS, OS/390 organization and workflow
JCL: rules of syntax
JOB, EXEC, DD, OUTPUT statements
SMS - Storage Management Subsystem
Data sets and libraries; DASD organization
VTOCs and catalogs
Viewing job output using ISPF 3.8 and one of: SDSF, IOF, Flasher, (E)JES
Data flow diagrams and JCL skeletons
Utilities: IEFBR14, IEBGENER
Introduction to IDCAMS
Conditional JCL: COND, IF/THEN, ELSE, ENDIF
Cataloged and in-stream procedures
Symbolic parameters in procedures and in open JCL
INCLUDE, SET, JCLLIB
Private Proclibs
Sort/merge
GDGs
PDSEs
Sources of information

MVS & OS/390 JCL and Utilities

MVS, OS/390 organization and workflow

JCL: rules of syntax

JOB, EXEC, DD, OUTPUT statements

SMS - Storage Management Subsystem

Data sets and libraries; DASD organization

VTOCs and catalogs

Viewing job output using ISPF 3.8 and one of: SDSF, IOF, Flasher, (E)JES

Data flow diagrams and JCL skeletons

Utilities: IEFBR14, IEBGENER

Introduction to IDCAMS

Conditional JCL: COND, IF/THEN, ELSE, ENDIF

Cataloged and in-stream procedures

Symbolic parameters in procedures and in open JCL

INCLUDE, SET, JCLLIB

Private Proclibs

Sort/merge

GDGs

PDSEs

Sources of information