Job Control Language (JCL) is programming language for scripting and launching batch jobs on IBM mainframe computers. JCL code determines which programs...
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operating systems Job Control Language, a programming language for scripting job control on an IBM mainframe computer Job control (workplace), the ability...
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abstraction, or as a control language, especially for job control languages on mainframe computers. The term scripting language is sometimes used in a...
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in OS/400 (now known as IBM i). It bears a resemblance to the IBM Job Control Language and consists of a set of command objects (*CMD) used to invoke traditional...
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In computing, job control refers to the automated control of job execution; ensuring that each job has access to adequate resources to perform correctly...
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objects (chunks of virtual storage), that are allocated above 2 GB. A Job Control Language (JCL) that continues in the positional-parameter orientation of earlier...
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DOS/360 and successors (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
represents a single blank.) The JOB statement indicates "the beginning of control information for a job." The format is // JOB <jobname> <comments>. <jobname>...
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operating system Master Control Program. Developed soon after the B5000 in 1961, WFL is the ClearPath equivalent of the Job Control Language (JCL) on IBM mainframes...
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ICL VME (redirect from SCL (job control language))
programming language than the job control or shell languages found in most other operating systems: it can be likened to scripting languages such as JavaScript...
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Assembling these macros generates a job stream to build the system, including job control language and utility control statements. This is because, as was...
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the printer and the host computer. PJL adds job level controls, such as printer language switching, job separation, environment, status readback, device...
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Burroughs MCP (redirect from Master Control Program)
typically in the MCP's job control language WFL, to control the flow of a job. Once all tasks in a job are complete, the job itself is completed. An...
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Batch file (redirect from Batch programming language)
batch file might not process a batch of multiple data. Similar to Job Control Language (JCL), DCL and other systems on mainframe and minicomputer systems...
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Shell script (redirect from Shell (programming language))
shell is actually a programming language: it has variables, loops, decision-making, and so on. "Job Control Language". IBM. Retrieved 2025-06-12. Arnold...
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Fortran (redirect from Fortran programming language)
semantics, or execution logic flow, rather than dealing with submission Job Control Language (JCL), the compile/link-edit/execution successive process(es), or...
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(DD) statements in Job Control Language (JCL), via dynamic allocation or in online regions such as in Customer Information Control System (CICS). Both...
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Batch processing (redirect from Batch job)
structured way. Probably the most well-known is IBM's Job Control Language (JCL). Job schedulers select jobs to run according to a variety of criteria, including...
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Number sign (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
"hashtag". In programming languages like PL/1 and Assembler used on IBM mainframe systems, as well as JCL (Job Control Language), the # (along with $ and...
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solutions also encompass frameworks for workflow mapping and management. Job Control Language System management Web service choreography Configuration management...
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datasets) directly, but instead reference them indirectly through the Job Control Language (JCL) statements that invoke the programs. These data definition...
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example with Job Control Language DD statements. Within a running program they are stored in the Data Control Block (DCB) or Access Control Block (ACB)...
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IBM System/3 (section Operation Control Language)
Control Program", CCP). A simple job control language called Operation Control Language (OCL) was superficially similar to the Job Control Language (JCL)...
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A job scheduler is a computer application for controlling unattended background program execution of jobs. This is commonly called batch scheduling, as...
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Symbolic Stream Generator (category Scripting languages)
(corresponding to IBM's Job Control Language), apply and administer symbolic changes to program sources as a form of version control, and for many other purposes...
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computingPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Job Control Language – Job control language for IBM mainframes List of compilers Microsoft POSIX...
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configuration sequences. TACL is also used as a job control language for batch jobs. The TACL language has a large number of built-in utilities which allow...
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OS/360 and successors (section Job-like units of work)
modified or re-assembled or re-compiled. The same JCL (Job Control Language, for initiating batch jobs), which was more flexible and easier to use, though...
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printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL). PostScript is one of the most noted page description languages. The...
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previous operating systems usually required some—often complex—job control language to establish connections, or the equivalent burden had to be orchestrated...
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GEORGE (operating system) (section Job control)
magnetic tape. The job control language allowed definition of the peripherals and files to be used and handling of exception conditions. The job description...
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