Audience:

JCL Tutorial will be useful for anyone, be in a student, a software Engineer or anyone who is serious towards mastering the JCL in Mainframe.

Also, This JCL Tutorial will be helpful for mainframe programmer to increase their level of expertise in JCL.

Pre-requisites:

There are no prerequisites for this JCL tutorial. If you have prior knowledge on MVS operating system, COBOL programming or any other mainframe language, then it will help you to understand JCL better but this is not mandatory and you can still learn JCL easily without any prior understanding of any programming language.

Would you like to learn COBOL ? Go to COBOL Tutorial

Topics covered in JCL Tutorial:

1. JCL Introduction
2. JCL Statement Structure
3. JCL Positional Parameters
4. JCL Keyword Parameters
5. JCL Statements
6. JCL JOB Statement
7. JCL EXEC Statement
8. JCL DD Statement
9. JCL Libraries
10. JCL Coding Concepts
11. JCL Procedures
    • JCL Procedures Introduction
    • JCL In-Stream Procedure
    • JCL Cataloged Procedure
    • JCL Nested Procedure
    • JCL Procedure Modification
    • JCL Procedure Examples
12. JCL Conditional Processing
    • JCL COND Statements
    • JCL IF Statements
    • JCL Restart Parameter
13. JCL Defining Datasets Name
14. JCL Input/Ouput Methods
15. JCL Compile Process
16. JCL Run COBOL Program
17. JCL GDG
18. JCL Utilities
    • JCL Utility Programs
    • JCL IEFBR14 Utility
    • JCL IEBGENER Utility
    • JCL IEBCOPY Utility
    • JCL IDCAMS Utility
19. JCL DFSORT Utility
    • JCL DFSORT Introduction
    • JCL INCLUDE COND
    • JCL OMIT COND
    • JCL INREC FIELDS
    • JCL SORT FIELDS
    • JCL SUM FIELDS
    • JCL OUTREC FIELDS
    • JCL OUTFIL FILES
20. JCL Examples
21. JCL DFSORT JOINKEYS
    • JCL SORT JOIN Statement
    • JCL for Joinkeys Application
    • JCL SORT Joinkeys Statement