JCL Tutorials

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Tutorial 01 – JOB Statement Fundamentals || JOB Statement – Purpose || Accounting-information parameter || Programmer-name parameter || Keyword Parameters || CLASS Parameter || PRTY Parameter || Message Class MSGCLASS || MSGLEVEL Parameter ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 02 – EXEC Statement Part I || EXEC Statement || Job-Step || Program || Input Dataset || Output Dataset || Program Load || ACCT Parameter || PARM Parameter || JOBLIB, STEPLIB Parameter || Default System defined Library – SYS1.PROCLIB || User defined private library ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 03 – EXEC Statement Part II || DPRTY Parameter || PERFORM Parameter || Restarting and Checkpointing – RD Parameter || ||Common Parameters of JOB and EXEC Statement || REGION Parameter || COND Parameter ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 04 – DD Statement Part I || DD Statement : Purpose || DSN Parameter || Qualifier levels in a DATASET Name || DISP Disposition Parameter || Status of Dataset || Normal Disposition || Abnormal Disposition || Meaning of NEW,OLD,SHR,MOD,KEEP,DELETE,CATLG,UNCATLG,PASS ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 05 – DD Statement Part II || UNIT Parameter – referring to device by its make/model || AFF Subparameter || VOL Parameter – referring to a particular volume of device || SER – Serial Number || REF – Referback to previous VOL Statement || PRIVATE subparameter || RETAIN subparameter || SEQ subparameter || LABEL parameter for Tape Datasets || SPACE Parameter – for storage space allocation || Max. space allocated to a PS || || RLSE,CONTIG,MXIG,ROUND Subparameters || Organisation of records in Dataset || DCB Parameter – Data Control Block || RECFM – Record Format || LRECL – Logical Record Length || BLKSIZE – Block Size || DSORG – Dataset Organisation || Sample JCL Showing how to use DCB Parameter ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 06 – DD Statement Part III(Instream and Cataloged Procedures) || What is a JCL PROC ? || Cataloged PROCEDURE || Default SYSTEM LIBRARY || || Private Library || Analogy with respect to conventional Programming Languages || Instream PROCEDURE || Calling a PROC – Example ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 07 - More on COND Statement(Lots of Examples) || COND Statement – Basic Example || EVEN Parameter || ONLY Parameter || COND Coded on many job-steps ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 08 - Cataloged and Instream PROCs(Overriding Parameters) || Modifying contents of a JCL PROC || Modifying a parameter on EXEC Statement || Adding a parameter to EXEC Statement || Deleting(Nullifying) parameter on EXEC Statement || Adding or modifying DD Statements || Example – MODIFYING DD Statament ||	PDF, Word
Tutorial 09 - JOB Log (How to understand it and Interprete it) || JOB Log means... || What is JES2 JOB Log || Start and End CPU Times || User assigned to the JOB || Number of Input Cards read || COND Code || Allocation and Termination Messages ||	PDF, Word