z/OS Advanced JCL
(AdvJCL)

 This course requires an enrolment key

Instructor: Terry Sambrooks


Duration: 14-16 Hours

Audience:

Delegates will have a basic understanding of Job Control Language, and will be looking to enhance their knowledge with more advanced featured.

Course Style

This workshop is a combination of theory sessions, interactive exercises, and hands-on sessions requiring access to a mainframe server. (Server access can be provided if not otherwise available to the delegate.)

Pre-requisites:

A basic of JCL, plus experience of using TSO/E ISPF to edit and submit work.

Course objectives

Indicative content

At the completion of this course, students will know and understand how to use IBM z/OS Job Control Language.

All students will be able to:

·         Use DD statements to create GDGs

·         Use Conditional Job Control to effect selective execution of  job streams

·         Create JCL procedures

·         Use symbolic parameters

·         Use the JCLLIB statement to assign procedure libraries

·         List benefits of OUTPUT statement

·         Know when to use some of the IBM Utilities such as: IEBGENER, IEBPTPCH, IEBCOPY, IEFBR14, and IDCAMS.

1 -  DD statements in-depth  More specific detail on the creation of GDGs, in both SMS and non-SMS environments.

2 - Conditional Job Control  IF / THEN / ELSE statements providing selective step execution.

3 - Procedures In-stream and catalogue procedures, the use of symbolic parameters, the JCLLIB statement, the INCLUDE statement, and the SET statement.

4 - Output management  The OUTPUT statement (an outline only.)

5 - IBM Supplied Utilities  A number of utilities discussed with examples.