Designed for: Applications programmers and operations analysts

Primary Objective: To write VSE JCL and fix JCL errors

VSE Overview
Structure and components of VSE, partition structure, supervisor, SVA, the Job Control Program, job flow, job control statements and job control commands.  Libraries.  Standard label areas.  VAE, address spaces.

JCL Statements
JOB and /&; EXEC and steps; in-stream data, /*; comment; files: DLBL, EXTENT, ASSGN, LISTIO; OPTION; PAUSE; tapes, TLBL, MTC; DATE.  Submitting batch jobs, viewing output.  Typical errors and how to fix them.  JECL statements.

Advanced JCL
Parameters, substitution; return codes, LOGSRC; procedures and PROC statement, passing parameters; conditional JCL, labels, GOTO, IF, ON, £ABEND, £CANCEL; POWER interface, PWR statement.