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JCL Standards #1Company Name

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Our organization and JCL

• Who uses JCL in our organization?

• Where is JCL stored and how is it created?

• Who is responsible for maintaining JCL?

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Who uses JCL in our organization?

• Application programmers

• System programmers

• Schedulers

• Operators

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Where is JCL stored and how is it created?

• What JCL data sets are you allowed to access?

• What if I need to run JCL from another location?

• Production JCL

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Who is responsible for maintaining JCL?

• Your own JCL

• Production JCL

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Job statement

• General JCL formatting requirements

• Job naming standards

• Job accounting information

• Keyword parameter standards

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JCL formatting requirements

• What are our general JCL formatting standards?

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Job naming standards

• What are our job naming standards?

• What will happen if I do not use the standards?

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Job accounting information standards

• What do I need to code for job accounting information?

• How is the accounting information used?

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CLASS and MSGCLASS standards

• What standards are used for these keyword parameters?

• How are these standards enforced?

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Other JOB statement parameters

• Which other JOB statement parameters are required?

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Summary

• Importance of JCL standards

• JOB statement parameters used by our organization