Day One

Operating system concepts

• Operating system concepts
• The Application Program Environment
• MVS – Multiple Virtual Storages
• The Road to z/OS
• z/OS Workflow
• JES – the Job Entry Subsystem
• Introduction to Work Load Manager
• Initiators and scheduling
• Allocation
• JCL syntax
• JOB, EXEC Statements

Introduction to Data Management

• Data Set Organizations
• DCBs / ACBs
• DDNAMES
• JOB Step setup
• OPEN Processing
• SYSIN-type data and SYSOUT-type data

Named Data Sets

• Tape and Disk Data Sets
• Tape Layout
• DASD Concepts
• Data Set Naming Rules
• Units, Volumes, Catalogs

Tape DD Statements

• Tape Output – DD Statement
• Tape Input – DD Statement

SMS – System Managed Storage

• STORCLAS, DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS
• ISMF

DASD Concepts

• DASD Track Layout
• Extents
• DASD Organization
• DD Statements for DASD
• Temporary data sets
• Concatenation

Condition Code Testing and JCL Debugging

• IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF Statements
• The JOBRC parameter
• JCL problem solving
• Sources of Information (IBM Publications, BookManager, QuickReference)
• Computer Exercise: JCL ONION

Day Two

Special DD Situations

• Virtual I/O – VIO
• Reference and Affinity
• Multi-volume Data sets
• Extended format data sets
• Striped data sets
• Hierarchical File System (HFS)
• Paths
• JCL and HFS files
• Computer Exercise: Accessing an HFS file.

IBM Utilities

• IEFBR14
• IEBGENER
• IEBCOPY
• IDCAMS
• Computer Exercise: Using Utilities

SORT

• Introduction to SORT
• JCL for SORT
• SORT Control Statements
• Computer Exercise: Using the SORT

Some Advanced Sort Topics

• Additional COND Tests
• Symbolic names
• The OUTFIL Statements
• Generating reports
• Computer Exercise: Symbolic names and multiple output files

OUTPUT Statements

• Introduction to OUTPUT Statements
• The REGION parameter
• The MEMLIMIT parameter

Day Three

JCL Procedures

• Cataloged Procedures
• Procedures and Inserts
• Procedures and Overrides
• Symbolic Parameters
• SYSUID
• The SET Statement
• The INCLUDE statement
• Private Proclibs: JCLLIB
• Nested Procedures
• Computer Exercise: Using Nested Procedures and INCLUDES

Additional Techniques

• GDGs – Generation Data Groups
• Internal Readers
• Step Restart
• PDSEs – Partitioned Data Set, Extended
• JES Control Statements

Some Additional JCL Statement Parameters

• JOB Statement Parameters: GROUP, PASSWORD, PERFORM, SCHENV, SECLABEL, USER
• EXEC Statement Parameter: PERFORM
• DD Statement Parameters: DCB, DDNAME, SPIN
• Optional Exercise: Using OUTPUT Statements