CS-318 JCL

Taught by Netiva Caftori

Office: CLS 3025; tel: 773/794-2739

Tentative Course Schedule
Week Thursday
1 Jan. 9th Introduction Review and definitionsChapter 1
2 1/16 Chapter 2

The JCL statement. The JOB statement

3 1/23 The EXEC statement The DD statement
4 1/30 The IEBGENER program. Chapter 5 The IEBPTPCH program. Assignment 1a due
5 Feb. 6th Assignment 1b due Assignment 1c due
6 2/13 Assignment 1d due. Exam 1 Go over exam. The COND parameter
7 2/20 Chapter 3. Assignment 2 due The UNIT, SPACE, VOL, and LABEL parameters
8 2/27 SYSOUT and DLM parameter. The SORT program
9 March 6th Chapter 4. Examples. Chapter 6
10 3/13 The IEBUPDTE and IEFBR14 programs. Assignment 3 is due. Exam 2
11 3/20 Cataloged procedures. Instream procedures. Quiz 1
12 3/27 SORTD. Quiz 2. Overriding. Quiz 3
13 April 3rd Symbolic parameters. Quiz 4
14 4/10 Assignment 4 is due.
15 4/17 Exam 3

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Grading Philosophy

There will be 3 exams, a couple of quizzes, and 3-4 assignments. The 1st assignment will be done in a group.

CS-318 is meeting in CLS 3031 on Thursdays 7:05-9:45 pm.

Turn in your assignments on the due dates in class, or ask for an extension which will cost you a few points.

Each exam is worth 15% of your grade.

Each assignment is worth 10% of your grade.

Each quiz is worth 2-5% (depending on the number) to a total of 10%.

The final grade will be decided on a curve.

Border line cases will be decided based on your class participation.

Textbook

Read ahead The text is "OS JCL by Example" written by Netiva Caftori, Ginn Press.

Both first and second editions are available in the bookstore and acceptable for study.

First chapter is available right here.

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Last revised on 1/3/97