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Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on the IBM mainframe operating systems z/OS and z/VSE (and predecessors) to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. In z/VSE, it is sometimes referred to as JCS (Job Control Statements). In z/OS, Job Entry Control Language (JECL) controls how JES2 or JES3 handles the job execution and output.

In JCL, the unit of work is the job. A job consists of one or several steps, each of which is a request to run one specific program. For example, a job to produce a printed report for management might consist of the following steps:

  • A user-written program to select the appropriate records and copy them to a temporary file.

  • Sort the temporary file into the required order, usually using a general-purpose sort utility

  • A user-written program to present the information in a way that is easy for the end-users to read and includes other useful information such as sub-totals

  • A user-written program to format selected pages of the end-user information for display on a monitor or terminal.
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Is a JOB card necessary?

I guess Job Cards are such like global attributes of a Java Class. In my job, I never used these job cards attributes. So job card is necessary in a job ? Could you please look at the job card below and tell me if that's required and why I need it…
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what is ARCIMSG parameter in jcl2?

I have ARCIMSG parameter in my EXEC JCL job. I could not find anything about it in the documents. Could you please tell me where and why I used it ? You can find a sample code below. Regards Alper //VVD0212 EXEC ARCIMSG
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How can we convert YYYYWWD format date into normal date format YYYY-MM-DD?

How can we convert YYYYWWD format date into normal date format YYYY-MM-DD using Syncsort?
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COBOL input file to output file MAXCC(Error return code)=0012

I've been trying to read my input and write it to output file but can't find any mistakes in code. The JCL I'm submiting is good, because it was written by my mainframe lecturer, so I know the problem is somewhere in COBOL code... double checked…
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Sort unmatched records using joinkeys

I have two GDG files (-1 & 0 version). Using these two files a flat file needs to be generated which will have Insert records(records which are not in -1 version but are in +0 version), Delete records(records which are in -1 version but are not in…
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How does DYNALLOC work when dealing with workfiles?

I have a JCL that is sorting millions of records (record length of 28,704). We noticed that we were running out of workfiles (the default of 32). we recently added the parameter to override the default value of 32 work files to 255. We found a…
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Extended VSAM allocation

I have been tasked with a project that requires a VSAM file over the 4GB limit. I am trying to define an extended VSAM using IDCAM, but I cannot find an example or guide to help me. This is how I would define a regular VSAM: //STEP1 EXEC…
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I want a JCL Sort card to write all the records with column n to n+k in a dataset into a newfile. How to achieve this?

1234 ABCD 3991 ABCD 3818 ABCD 1939 PQRS 2838 PQRS 1939 ABCD 2819 PQRS 2102 FILQ 2911 ABCD 3912 FILQ I want to write all the records with ABCD in a file, all the records PQRS in a file all the records with FILQ in a file and so on. I dont know…
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Assigning DDnames by the user in jcl

I want to specify the ddname of the file "ABC.DEF.XXX" in which XXX is the input given by the user through sysin in jcl.How it can be achieved?
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How to know what does the variable in SYSTSIN contains?

While going through a JCL job, i found the following code snippet. What does this mean? How do we know what %var2fix contains? //JS0005 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSEXEC DD DSN=ISPFGRP.ICEC.ISPFEXEC,DISP=SHR //INPUT DD DSN=PSMC.CMDS.N001(0),DISP=SHR …
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Submit another JCL as a step from main JCL based on RC of the previous step {via Internal Reader}

I have a requirement wherein I have to submit 10 JCL's. Every JCL is coded to give MAXXCC=0 when completed good. I want to call all the JCL's from a main JCL so that I don't have to submit all the JCL's manually. If this is not possible through…
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JCL IF statement on multiple lines

I'm getting JCL error when executing this job. // IF &O = O AND // (&GEG = SD.SD.SYNC.DB2.LBER OR // &GEG = SD.LA.SYNC.DB2.LBER OR // &GEG = SD.TW.SYNC.DB2.LBER) //STEP015 EXEC…
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Retain record by latest date for employee, in original employee order

I need to filter latest records for each employee in PS file. How can I achieve this using DFSORT? Records in PS file as Employee id(6 digits) and date(8 digits). I need to filter latest records of each employee keeping the original order that the…
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Use SYSREC as table for next Unload

I've searched BMC foruns and DB2 foruns but I found no solution. I wanted to know if it is possible to use the output of BMC Unload Plus, SYSREC, as a table to unload from in the next JCL step?
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Daily a number of jobs run in mainframe, i need to fetch their start and end time by some other jcl or rexx automatically, is it possible?

Daily a number of jobs run in mainframe, i need to fetch their start and end time by some other jcl or rexx automatically, is it possible ?
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