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faqboos · Beginner Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 4 Topics: 2

Hi,

I am new to the MVS JCl environment and would appreciate if someone could clarify my basic questions.

1)How do you check for errors in your jcl code(compiling and debugging).
2)Can the JCl be used in an interactivce mode.
3)How do you browse/search for pds.
4) How do you make a copy of an existing pds and edit it.

Please suggest me some online documentation or a few good books where I could get information about the navigation and general utilities of MVS JCL environment.

Thnanks a lot,

Kalyan.

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

1)How do you check for errors in your jcl code(compiling and debugging).

A)I use CA-JCLCheck. Don't know what you mean by "compiling and debuging".

2)Can the JCl be used in an interactive mode.

A)No.

What do these next two questions have to do with JCL?

3)How do you browse/search for pds.
4)How do you make a copy of an existing pds and edit it.

For a general reference, I recommend the book "zOS JCL, 5th Edition by Gary DeWard Brown". Also, IBM's own manuals are quite good.

kolusu · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:58 pm Post subject:

Kalyan,

welcome to the world of mainframes.

faqboos · Beginner Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 4 Topics: 2

Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions and useful hyperlinks.

By compiling and debugging I meat that, before scheduling the job for execution, how can it be checked for any syntatical or format errors.

If scheduling is the only way to check it, then what is the least amount of time before it can be scheduled?

Thanks again,

Maton_Man · Beginner Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 123 Topics: 0

You can submit JCL with a parm on the job statement of TYPRUN=SCAN which will alert you to syntax errors without actually running the programs EXEC'd in the job. It will not tell you if you are going to have DSN problems though.
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Dibakar · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject: