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e-Learning Purely Procedures

Course outline

This is a four module extract from the z/OS Advanced JCL Course, dealing with JCL Procedures.

It includes 10 hands on exercises.

The topics covered are listed opposite.

Purely Procedures - Synopsis

• The construction of both in-stream and catalogued procedures
  
• How procedures are located including use of JCLLIB
  
• The difference between Procedures and INCLUDE groups
  
• How to override:
  
  • EXEC Statements
  • DD Statements
  • OUTPUT Statements
  
  
• Describes Symbolic Parameters and how to use them
  
• Demonstrates the use of the SET statement
  
• How to use System Symbols in Batch
  
• How to use symbolic parameters in the input stream
  
• Demonstrates the use of the EXPORT statement
  
• How to pass symbols via the Internal Reader.