✴ Job Control Language (JCL) is a name for scripting languages used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem.✴

► More specifically the purpose of JCL is to say which programs to run using which files or devices for input or output and at times to also indicate under what conditions to skip a step.✦

❰❰ This App will be useful for software programmers in the need of understanding the basics of Job Control Language. Also this App will be helpful to mainframe professionals to increase their level of expertise in JCL.❱❱

【Topics Covered in this App are Listed Below】

⇢ JCL – Overview

⇢ JCL - Environment Setup

⇢ JCL - JOB Statement

⇢ JCL - EXEC Statement

⇢ JCL - DD Statement

⇢ JCL - Base Library

⇢ JCL – Procedures

⇢ JCL - Conditional Processing

⇢ JCL - Defining Datasets

⇢ Input-Output Methods

⇢ Running COBOL Programs using JCL

⇢ JCL - Utility Programs

⇢ JCL - Basic Sort Tricks