JCL (Job Control Lanugauge) is the name of a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems (MVS, OS/390 and VSE) to instruct the operating system to allocate space resources and time required to execute a job on the mainframe computers.

The Following Section contains some Basic JCL Examples used in day to day by mainframe developers. 

CONVERT VB TO FB FILE

List all datasets with High Level Qualifier

List Migrated Datasets

date and timestamp in load object

Removing Duplicates

SUPERCE in Batch

IEBEDIT Example

Check for empty file

If the VSAM is empty then copy job abends

Copying files from Tapes to DASD

Low values to Spaces using SORT