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JOB STATEMENT

This statement defines job-specific information sent to the JES.

The name section shows the job name:

• the JES will identify the job with it

• the job output will show it along with the output data

The parameters:

• (purpose) (information on what purpose the job serves, e.g. ACCT = recording the accounting/cost of the execution; in many cases it is DUMMY or optional)

• 'user' (user/owner name of the job, JES will identify the owner by this name in the spool)

• CLASS (job priority)

• MSGCLASS (job output spool class, defines where the SYSPRINT, SYSOUT etc. is directed)

• MSGLEVEL (verbality level of the JCL parser)

• NOTIFY (which user is to notify about the termination of the job)

• TIME (what is the time limit; upon reaching it the job will be terminated)

• REGION (how much memory JES must reserve for the job; in older systems it was critical, now less)

• TYPRUN (execution mode)

• PRTY (JES2 priority, rare, CLASS has greater importance)

• COND (job-level condition, nowadays it is not advised to define it)

In case there are more data giving to these parameters, the (x,y) formula works.

CLASS:

• A (normal)

• B (long execution)

• C (low prioriry)

• K (critical, immediate execution)

MSGCLASS:

• X (developer pool)

• A (operator pool)

• (syslog)

MSGLEVEL:

• 1,1 (all JCL lines and all messages)

• 0,1 (only error messages)

• 2,0 (only JCL lines, no messages)

NOTIFY:

• username

• &SYSUID (actual user)

TIME:

• <minutes>

• 1440 (24 hours; typical in bank batch)

• NOLIMIT (typical in long-execution bank batch)

REGION:

• 0M (automatic, typical in modern z/OS; without it ABEND S878 can be raised; default)

• 4M (fix 4 MB)

TYPRUN:

• SCAN (JCL check, no execution, "dry run")

• HOLD (goes into the spool but without executing it)

COND:

• 4,LT (stop when RC<4)

EXAMPLE FOR JOB STATEMENT:

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