Job Control Language (JCL)

JCL

Is used to submit jobs to the system. Job is one unit of work. JCL consists of statements and their parameters. There are three types of statements: JOB (specifies the information of the job), EXEC (specifies the program to use), DD (specifies the filed to use in the job) and 2 types of parameters: positional (should be coded in specified order and position), keyword (can appear in any order)

JCL is useful to run the Batch processes.

JCL syntax

lrecl : 80, should be in upper case, first 2 characters on every line is an identifier //, name of the job: 8 characters it should be same as the name of the pds member,

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