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What’s in a Job Card?
JCL is a staple language for Systems Programmers, and arguably the most important part of any JCL is the job card – we can’t run a JCL without one. The reason a lot of people call it a ‘Job card’ (you might also hear other terms like Job statement) is because MVS programming used to…
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Purging the JES spool in SDSF
Many mainframe beginners will be familiar with how to manually purge job outputs from the JES spool one by one – that is, accessing the job status log via SDSF;ST and placing a P against the job entry to be purged. But there are ways we can purge multiple jobs without having to manually enter…
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