Synopses & Reviews
Revised to be a companion/reference to Gary Brown's System 370/390 JCL, known as the ``JCL Bible, it contains a significant amount of actual JCL examples in the context of a single large model program, added upon as each new feature of JCL is introduced. Details the latest enhancements from IBM including MVS/ESA and SMS. Demonstrates debugging techniques through JCL. Illustrations are in TSO/ISPF with JCL to make the book's screen examples look exactly like those seen on a computer.
Table of Contents
The Mainframe Environment.
Mainframe Information Representation and Storage.
The Structure of JCL.
Multi-Step Job Streams.
Completing Your Overview: Compiling with a Proc.
The JOB Statement in Detail.
The EXEC Statement in Detail.
DD Statements for Reading Data Sets.
DD Statements for Printing: SYSOUT.
DD Statements to Create (Write) Data Sets.
DISP: Data Set Disposition.
UNIT: How You Designate an I/O Device.
DCB: Data Control Block.
SPACE: Disk Space Allocation.
JCL for Tape Data Sets.
Creating and Using Load Module Libraries.
Generation Data Group Data Sets.
Instream and Cataloged Procedures.
Appendices.
Index.