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Job Control Language

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ALSO CALLED: JCL
DEFINITION: JCL (job control language) is a language for describing jobs (units of work) to the MVS, OS/390, and VSE operating systems, which run on IBM's S/390 large server (mainframe) computers. These operating systems allocate their time and space resources among the total number of jobs that have been started  … 
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New Era of IT Automation
sponsored by CA
WEBCAST:   Posted: 06 Mar 2008 | When: Available On Demand
SUMMARY: The delivery of new r11 products and the acquisition of workload automation technology from Cybermation have changed the landscape of traditional job scheduling and provided advanced capabilities to CA customers.

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TOPICS:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Job Control Language | Job Scheduling Software | Load Balancing | Systems Management | Workflow Software
Reducing the Costs of Application Maintenance and Impact Analysis
sponsored by Software Engineering of America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 25 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: This document discusses the main problems and issues an IT organization confronts when managing their corporate assets in order to reduce the elevated maintenance costs.

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TOPICS:  Databases | Job Control Language | Productivity | Programming Languages | Standards
SQL job manager
sponsored by Idera
TRIAL SOFTWARE:   Posted: 13 Feb 2008 | Published: 13 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: Spending too much time managing, scheduling and worrying about SQL Server jobs? Download now to try SQL job manager to be able to centralize and streamline SQL Server job management.

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TOPICS:  Database Server Software | High Availability | Job Control Language | Job Scheduling Software | SQL Server
 
JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE DEFINITION (continued): …  in the computer. Jobs in turn break down into job steps. All the statements required to run a particular program constitute a job step. Jobs are background (sometimes called batch) units of work that run without requiring user interaction (for example, print jobs). In addition, the operating system manages interactive (foreground) user requests that initiate units of work. In general, foreground work is given priority over background work.

One IBM manual compares a set of JCL statements to a menu order in a restaurant. The whole order is comparable to the job. … 
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