9640: Intro to zOS Job Control Language (JCL) from a UNIX/Windows Perspective

Thursday, August 11, 2011: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Oceanic 2 (Walt Disney World Dolphin )
Speaker: Joseph E. Elliott Jr. (Nationwide Mutual Insurance)
Handouts
  • JCL from a UNIX/Win Perspective (311.2 kB)
  • Are you a developer on Windows or UNIX/Linux who has an occasional need to interface with the mainframe (z/OS)?   

    If you are a Windows and/or Unix developer, this is the session is a basic primer that will show you how to put together JCL for a batch job to interface with UNIX and/or Windows.   This session will provide anyone with enough information to learn how to build a batch interface from z/OS to either Windows and UNIX/Linux.   Learn the basics of the following:

    • Different types of mainframe file systems and how they relate to a distributed file system
    • What about those character set differences
    • The End of Line (EOL) and Control-Break gottas
    • What do I need to logon to the mainframe
    • Security considerations in a mixed mainframe / distributed world
    • Creating your JCL
    • The JOBCARD statement
    • Lines that follow the JOBCARD (varies by system)
    • The program step and steplib  
    • The DD statements
    • Instream vs. dataset parameters
    • Using Condition Codes to control your batch job stream
    • Output listings (what are they and options)

    Even those with no exposure to the mainframe should be able to code a basic job using JCL based on the information from this session.

    This session will include a live session on the mainframe to build a basic set of JCL statements for an interface to Windows. 

    Joe Elliott is a subject matter expert at Nationwide Insurance for integration of multiple platforms and has experience as both an application developer and a systems architect.   He accepted the 2004 Share Award for Excellence on behalf of Nationwide Insurance for efforts on a DB2 project.

    Tracks: zNextGen
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