B620: Major Topics

  • Data sets and libraries; DASD organization, VTOCs and catalogs
  • z/OS organization and workflow
  • Introduction to Work Load Manager (WLM)
  • JCL: rules of syntax
  • JOB, EXEC, DD, OUTPUT statements
  • OPEN processing
  • Sources of Information
  • Debugging JCL
  • Multi-volume data sets
  • Extended Format data sets
  • Striped data sets
  • HFS files
  • Utilities: IEFBR14, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY
  • Introduction to IDCAMS
  • Conditional JCL: IF/THEN, ELSE, ENDIF
  • Cataloged procedures
  • Symbolic parameters in procedures and in open JCL
  • JES internal readers
  • Step restart, checkpoint restart
  • JES control statements
  • SMS – Storage Management Subsystem and PDSEs
  • INCLUDE, SET, JCLLIB
  • Sort / Merge, including multiple output files and symbolic name capabilities
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