JCL – Utility Programs
IBM Dataset Utilities Utility programs are pre-written programs, widely used in mainframes by system programmers and application developers to achieve day-to-day requirements, organising and maintaining data. A few of them…
IBM Dataset Utilities Utility programs are pre-written programs, widely used in mainframes by system programmers and application developers to achieve day-to-day requirements, organising and maintaining data. A few of them…
Compiling COBOL Programs In order to execute a COBOL program in batch mode using JCL, the program needs to be compiled and a load module is created with all the…
The SQL UPDATE Query is used to modify the existing records in a table. You can use the WHERE clause with the UPDATE query to update the selected rows, otherwise all the…
Any batch program executed through a JCL requires data input, which is processed and an output is created. There are different methods of feeding input to the program and writing…
The SQL AND & OR operators are used to combine multiple conditions to narrow data in an SQL statement. These two operators are called as the conjunctive operators. These operators provide a means to…
The SQL WHERE clause is used to specify a condition while fetching the data from a single table or by joining with multiple tables. If the given condition is satisfied, then only…
A dataset name specifies the name of a file and it is denoted by DSN in JCL. The DSN parameter refers to the physical dataset name of a newly created…
The SQL SELECT statement is used to fetch the data from a database table which returns this data in the form of a result table. These result tables are called result-sets. Syntax…
The SQL INSERT INTO Statement is used to add new rows of data to a table in the database. Syntax There are two basic syntaxes of the INSERT INTO statement which are…
The Job Entry System uses two approaches to perform conditional processing in a JCL. When a job completes, a return code is set based on the status of execution. The…