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

[Michael]

Refering to HP, DEC, Sperry, WANG, Burroughs, Honeywell, NCR,
DataGeneral, CDC Prime, and I know I missed a few.
Some form of job control was common on all the mini-mainframes of the
1970's and 1980's.

My favourite, the MPE/V & MPE/iX operating systems that run on the
HP3000 also have a form of JCL, used in both batch & interactive
command-line processing.


On 07/30/2015 05:53 AM, Dave Stratford wrote:
> 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
>