Re: [open-cobol-list] JCL (Was: Hi all)

[Dave Stratford]

J. Leslie Turriff wrote:
>       JCL (Job Control Language) is a sort of scripting tool for running jobs
> in
> the batch-oriented z/OS and z/VSE operating systems.  I don't believe
> there
> are any other OSes that use such a concept (the only others I've seen were
> on
> NCR's Century and Criterion OSes).

ICL's VME operting system does. Called SCL rather than JCL, but the
concept is the same. SCL is a compiled HLL in it's own right designed to
link together the cobol appication code and setting up the files etc. It
can also be used from the command line.

Dave

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