SUMMARY:   This 4 day course provides an in-depth look at z/OS JCL, and an overview of job processing throughout the system, as well as SMS parameters. AUDIENCE:   Programmers, Computer operators, System analysts, system programmers, and others interested in improving the flow of jobs at their installation. PREREQUISITES:   The participant should have a basic understanding of the operating environment and operating systems functions. DURATION:   4 Days. APPROACH:   This class is taught by instruction with hands-on workshops. OBJECTIVES:   After taking this course the student should be able to: Better understand job flow and improve system throughput. Diagnose and resolve JCL problems. Optimize the use of equipment through proper allocation of resources. Improve programmer efficiency and reduce program test time. Decrease the number of abended jobs thus making better use of capacity. COURSE CONTENT:   Day 1 Topics OPERATING SYSTEM HISTORY TERMINOLOGY JCL SYNTAX STATEMENT TYPES JOB STATEMENT CLASS MSGCLASS MSGLEVEL NOTIFY TYPRUN COND PERFORM REGION TIME BYTES CARD LINES PAGES USER GROUP PASSWORD EXEC STATEMENT PGM / PROC COND PARM REGION ACCT TIME IF / THEN ELSE / ENDIF STATEMENT DAY 2 TOPICS RESERVED DD NAMES FILE CONCEPTS DISK / TAPE DATA SETS DSN DISP DCB UNIT SPACE VOL LABEL EXPDT RETPD SMS DATA SETS DATACLAS MGMTCLAS STORCLAS AVGREC DSNTYPE KEYLEN KEYOFF LIKE RECORG REFDD SECMODEL DAY 3 TOPICS INSTREAM DATA SETS */ DATA DCB PRINT / PUNCH DATA SETS SYSOUT COPIES FREE HOLD OUTLIM DEST SEGMENT SPIN NULL DATA SETS DUMMY DSN=NULLFILE OUTPUT LOG GDG DATA SETS PARTITIONED DATA SETS PROCEDURES PROC PEND SYMBOLICS OVERRIDES DAY 4 TOPICS CONCATINATED DATA SETS RESTART OUTPUT STATEMENT JCLLIB STATEMENT INCLUDE STATEMENT SET STATEMENT UTILITIES IEBCOPY IEBGENER IEBPTPCH IEBUPDTE IEFBR14 IEHPROGM IEHLIST SORT / MERGE VSAM BASIC TERMINOLOGY & CONCEPTS IDCAMS DEFINE DELETE REPRO PRINT LISTCAT JES2 JES3