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Dec 15, 2015
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Job Control Language
Bhargava KC
Extension: 52067
E&R Rotunda, II Floor, Cubicle 15
Email: [email protected]
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Pre-requisites
Programming Fundamentals.
MVS Operating system and its subsystem TSO.
Navigating through ISPF.
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Evaluation Scheme
Quiz : 20 Marks ( Conducted after 2 sessions of Input )
OLE : 80 Marks
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References
# Title Authors Publishers
1. MVS JCL Doug Lowe Mike Murarch and Associates 2. System 370/390 JCL GD Brown
3. IBM Manuals
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Objectives of the Course1. To acquaint participants to the specific nature of
Job Control Language.
2. To illustrate the syntax of JCL.
3. To demonstrate the JCL programs, procedures, Various Data set allocation mechanisms, IBM Utilities
4. To acquaint the participants regarding the importance of VSAM, GDGs, and concepts of SMS.
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Objectives of the Session
1. To learn about JES as a Sub system and its functions.
2. About JCL syntax in general
3. About Job statement.
4. Some sample examples.
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A JOB is the execution of one or more related programs in sequence. Each Program to be executed by a Job is Called a Step.
Ex: The first program sorts customer names in a sequence The second program generates a report .
Job Control Language is a set of control statements thatProvides specifications necessary to process a Job.
JOB AND A JCL
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Determinethejob
CreatetheJCL
Submitthe
JOB
JESinterpretsJCL andpasses it
toMVS
MVS doesthe work
UserViews andInterprets
output
JEScollects
the outputand information
aboutthe JOB
SystemMessages
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WHY JCL ???
• MVS operating system is designed to work in the
batch processing mode
• JCL is a powerful and flexible language that helps
to customize the use of local and remote resources
available to one or more computers
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Difference between batch & interactive processing
Batch processing
• Jobs submitted are executed at later time
• User can not interact
• Performance measure is throughput
• Snapshot of output is used for debugging
Interactive processing
• Jobs submitted are executed immediately
• User can interact
• Performance measure is response time
• Interactive debugging
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Various stages of JCL execution
• Input• Conversion• Execution• Output• Hard copy• Purge
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• Input JES gives a unique job number
• Conversion Check syntax error & Place it in JES spool
• Initiator Taking the job from the spool and sending it for
execution• Output sends the output to printer• Purge After job is processed,it is
purged
Various stages of JCL execution
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•Stages of Job Processing - INPUT
Job entry or input is how jobs are entered into the system.
• Local and remote card readers
• Via a started procedure
• Internal reader
• From another system via network job entry
Several methods are :
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Stages of Job Processing - INPUT
INPUT
SPOOL
JCLSYSIN
JES
MVS
During input processing , the job is placed out on spool. At this point in time, a job consists of :
• Any JOB Control Language• Any JOB Entry Control Language (JECL) in the Input Stream
• Any data SYSIN in the Input Stream
An entry is initialized in the Jobqueue and the job is assigned a JES Job Number as part of Input Processing
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Stages of Job Processing -CONVERSION
SPOOL
JCLSYSIN
• During conversion the JCL for a job is converted to its internal form, known as Converter/Interpreter text. All of the jobs that were marked awaiting conversion in the job Queue are converted
MVS
JES
PROCLIB
PROC
• Full Syntax checking of the JCL is done at this time
• Input to the conversion process consists of the Original JCL and any cataloged procedure referenced by it
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Stages of Job Processing -CONVERSION
JOB INTERPRETER - JES2
JES2ADDRESS
SPACE
INITIATORADDRESS
SPACE
PAYJCL
INTERPRETER
PAYCONTROLBLOCKS
• JES2 gives job to idle initiator
• Initiator attaches the interpreter to build control blocks
• Control blocks used to start job in initiator
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Stages of Job Processing -CONVERSION
JOB INTERPRETER - JES3
JES3ADDRESS
SPACE
INITIATORADDRESS
SPACE
PAYJCL
INTERPRETER
PAYCONTROLBLOCKS
• JES Attaches the interpreter
• Interpreter builds the control blocks in the JES address space
• JES passes the CONTROL
blocks to an idle initiator to start execution.
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Stages of Job Processing - EXECUTION
1. Initiator Invokes a program called Interpreter which goes thru the Job Input and creates a series of Control blocks in Scheduler Work Area , a part of Address space Private Area.
2. It then invokes Allocation routines that decides on what resources the Job step needs in terms of Units , Volumes and Data sets.
3. Initiator then builds a User region where the User’s program is loaded , control is transferred to Program and the program gets executed.
4. When the Program execution is over Initiator invokes deallocation routines to release all the resources that are used.
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Stages of Job Processing - EXECUTION
• INITIATOR is responsible for the EXECUTION step of the Job
Initiator Eligible Job classes
1 A
2 B,C,D,H,L,T
3 B,C,D,H,L,T
4 B,C
5 B,C
6 C
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Stages of Job Processing - EXECUTION
• JES selects a job for execution , based upon job CLASS and job selection PRTY ex. //PAY JOB PRTY=8,CLASS=A
• Allocation ( of data sets and devices necessary for execution ) is performed.
• If the program reads any ‘ SYSIN’ data, a copy will be read from Spool and presented to the program.
• If the program creates any ‘SYSOUT’ data, it will be ‘Spooled’, rather than sent directly to an output device.
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Stages of Job Processing - OUTPUT
• After the job has terminated, the output created is analysed and grouped according to SYSOUT class and output characteristics
• Entries are then created in the Job Output Table (JOT) to reflect these various groupings
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Stages of Job Processing - HARDCOPY
• During this phase, job output characteristics and the output is sent to the physical devices.
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Stages of Job Processing - PURGE
• During Purge processing, all of the resources allocated to the job in earlier phases can be freed for re-use. These include :
– Spool Space
– Jobqueue space
– JES job number
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JCL PROCESSING
JCL
SYSIN
SYSOUT
SPOOLJES2 /JES3
JES2 /JES3
INITIATOR1 INITIATOR2PRINTER
INPUTSTREAM
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JCL execution
JCL INITIATION
STEP INITIATION
ALLOCATION
PROGRAM EXECUTION
STEP TERMINATION
JOB TERMINATION
JCL
SYSIN
SYSOUT
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QUESTIONS ???
• JCL is used to write an application program ? Yes/No
• What are the different stages of JCL processing ?
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JCL statements
JOB Job identification
EXEC Instruction for execution
DD Source of data to operate
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TYPE OF STATEMENTS
• JOB CONTROL STATEMENTS
• UTILITY CONTROL STATEMENTS
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Basic Format of a JCL :
• JCL statements are coded in 80 byte records -– Only 72 of the 80 chars available to code JCL -
• last eight columns of each record reserved for an optional sequence number
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Basic Format of a JCL :
JCL FIELD NAMES
1. Identifier field2. NAME field3. OPERATION field4. PARAMETER field
– Positional– Keyword
5. COMMENT field
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JCL STATEMENT FORMAT
//P123 JOB 1234,AMLAN,CLASS=E JOBSTATEMENT
Name Parameters
Operation
Identifier Comment
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Basic Format of a JCL : ...Identifier [Name] [Operation] [Parameters]
[Comments]• Identifier
• Two slashes ( // ) starting in col 1.– Exceptions -
• 1) For a delimiter statement, /* starting in col 1• 2) For a comment statement , //* starting at col 1
• Name• One to eight alphanumeric , starting with a letter
char. Starts from col 3. Valid chars A-Z,0-9 or national characters ( # , @ , $ )
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Basic Format of a JCL : ...
– Operation• A valid operation code, such as JOB, EXEC or DD.
Must be preceded and followed by a space.
– Parameters• One or more parameters depending on the operation.
Individual parameters are separated from one another by commas, no intervening spaces.
– Comments• comments may follow parameters, preceded by one
space and not extending beyond col 71
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JCL parameters :
• JCL parameters :– 1) Positional parameters -
• Must occur at a specific position within the parameters field
• account for a missing parameter by a comma
– 2) Keyword parameters -• UNIT=SYSDA ( no spaces )
– UNIT is a keyword parameter of value SYSDA
• Keyword parameters to come only after all positional parameters have been coded, order of keyword parameters immaterial
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JCL subparameters :
• DCB=(DSORG=PO,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=6160)
• DCB=(DSORG=PO) DCB=DSORG=PO
• DISP=(,DELETE)
Comma place holders are required only for missingpositional subparameters.
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Continuing JCL statements: ...• Break the parameter field with the comma that
follows a parameter or sub-parameter• Slashes in column 1 & 2 of following line• Next parameter or sub parameter starting anywhere
between columns 4 - 16
//SYSUT2 DD DSNAME=...,DISP=...,//SYSUT2 DD DSNAME=...,DISP=...,// UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=MPS800,// UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=MPS800,// SPACE=(CYL,(10,5,2)),// SPACE=(CYL,(10,5,2)),// DCB=DSORG=PO// DCB=DSORG=PO
( X ) Avoid continuing comments from line to line.
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Guidelines :• JCL cryptic :
– Code just one or two parameters per line
– align the operation and parameters fields of each statement
– begin job with a group of comment statements that document a job thoroughly
• Name, date of coding, what each job step does, any special processing requirements
• Don’t forget to update comments !
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JCL statements
JOB Job identification
EXEC Instruction for execution
DD Source of data to operate
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JOB STATEMENT
ACCT CLASS
NAME NOTIFY
MSGLEVEL TYPRUN
MSGCLASS PRTY
COND RESTART
USER REGION
PASSWORD PERFORM
TIME
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IMPORTANT JOB PARAMETERS positional parameters ( a/c inf ),name
ex. //INFOSYSA JOB (A123),AMLAN
• All these parameters are optional as far as JCL is concerned, they are probably required by your installation.
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IMPORTANT JOB PARAMETERS keyword parameters ( CLASS )
ex. //INFOSYSA JOB CLASS=A
• CLASS specifies the job class that is the nature of the job. Installation will specify which of the 36 possible classes to use which is from A to Z and 0 to 9 .
• Installation establishes a default class that is in effect if CLASS is omitted.
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IMPORTANT JOB PARAMETERS keyword parameters ( MSGCLASS )
ex. //INFOSYSA JOB MSGCLASS=A
• MSGCLASS specifies the job scheduler message output class. • Job scheduler messages include all messages not printed by the job steps being executed but the JCL messages and system messages
• Installation establishes a default class that is in effect if CLASS is omitted.
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IMPORTANT JOB PARAMETERS keyword parameters ( MSGLEVEL )
ex. //INFOSYSA JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
• MSGLEVEL(jcl,allocations) specifies the printing of JCL statements and allocation messages. • ex. MSGLEVEL(0,1) will print only JOB statement, and all the allocation,JES,SMS and operator messages
• By default it is MSGLEVEL(1,1)
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keyword parameters ( MSGLEVEL )
MSGLEVEL=(X,Y) Where X is 0 thru 2 , Y is 0 thru 1
X = 0 , Lists Job statements only.
X = 1 , Lists all User JCL + All catalogued procedures.
X = 2 , Lists all User JCL but no catalogued procedures.
Y = 0 , No Initiator/terminator messages to be listed.
Y = 1 , All initiator/terminator messages to be listed.
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IMPORTANT JOB PARAMETERS keyword parameters ( NOTIFY )
ex. //INFOSYSA JOB NOTIFY=INFOSYS
• NOTIFY notifies you at a time-sharing terminal when the job is completed.
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IMPORTANT JOB PARAMETERS keyword parameters ( TYPRUN )
ex. //INFOSYSA JOB TYPRUN=SCAN
• TYPRUN checks the JCL and holds the job in the input queue.
• TYPRUN = SCAN checks the JCL for syntax errors and suppresses execution of the job
• TYPRUN = HOLD holds the JCL in the input queue for later execution.It is held until the operator releases it.
• TYPRUN = JCLHOLD(JES2 only) similar to HOLD but the difference is it is checked while it is not with the HOLD option.
• TYPRUN = COPY(JES2 only) lists or duplicates the lines placed in the JOB statement to the class assigned in the MSGCLASS parameter and suppresses execution.
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SOME OTHER keyword JOB PARAMETERS
• PRTY=priority : is related to the CLASS parameter. It assigns priority to jobs which belong to the same class.priority numbers range from (0-14) or (0-15) depending on installations.
• TIME=(min,sec) : signifies how much time the JOB must take to run.
• RESTART=STEP3 :Forces the JOB execution to start from STEP3.
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SOME OTHER keyword JOB PARAMETERS
• REGION=96K :To override the default amount of workspace assigned for the job.
• COND=(4,LT) :Permits the execution of a steps to depend on the return code from the previous steps.Will be dealt in detail in Day2.
• ADDRSPC=REAL : It is used to specify whether the program is to use REAL or VIRTual ADDRess SPaCe. Default is Virtual. If Real is coded then the REGION parameter is also to be coded.
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Errors
• JCL syntax errors. JOB will not be executed
• JCL allocation errors. JES2-subsequent steps will not get executed.
JES3-detects errors in the beginning.
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Abend Failures
An ABEND failure occurs under the following conditions:
A program while executing, attempts to perform an instruction or operation which the system recognizes as being impossible or unacceptable.
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Causes of Abend Failures
Logic error JCL errorResource unavailabilityExceeding limits (Time or Space on DASD)Hardware MalfunctionUser ABENDSOperator interventionOperating System failure