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There should be a section devoted to JCL (Job Control Language). It is arcane and difficult but is the secret sauce that makes IBM COBOL so powerful on mainfra
by fredsmith219 4y ago
There should be a section devoted to JCL (Job Control Language). It is arcane and difficult but is the secret sauce that makes IBM COBOL so powerful on mainframes. I looked at the courses briefly and didn't see it mentioned.
- throwawayboise 4y agoEven back in the day, people who could write JCL from scratch were few. Most people took the JCL from a similar job and modified it. At least that was my experience.
- JohnL4 4y agoAnd VSAM?
- euroderf 4y agoCan you point to any JCL resources on the web ? Late 70s, IBM mainframe at college, running FORTRAN, PL/1, and PL/C. The guys that knew the secret sauce hung out in the keypunch room and once in a while applied their magic. SYSIN DD *, and all that.