JES2 Execution Control Statements
JES2 in z/OS 2.2 includes statements for defining a concept called a job group. A job group is a set of specifications (between a JOBGROUP and ENDGROUP statement) that define the execution sequencing of a group of jobs and the jobs themselves (submitted after the job group specification).
- JOBGROUP JCL statement (JOBGROUP statement)
- GJOB JCL statement (GJOB statement)
- JOBSET JCL statement (JOBSET statement)
- SJOB JCL statement (SJOB statement)
- ENDSET JCL statement (ENDSET statement)
- AFTER JCL statement (AFTER statement)
- BEFORE JCL statement (BEFORE statement)
- CONCURRENT JCL statement (CONCURRENT statement)
- ENDGROUP JCL statement (ENDGROUP statement)
Job groups also support the inclusion of comment cards (statements that start with //*) in the same manner as normal JCL does. However, job groups cannot include JECL (statements that start with /*), instream data, use of symbols, or any JCL statement not listed above.
In addition to the list of JCL statements above, a new SCHEDULE JCL statement was added in z/OS 2.2 to support associating a job with a job group. This statement is described below (including keywords not related to job group processing).
