An important part of an MVS application is the JCL jobstream that controls its execution. MSS provides facilities to support
the use of batch JCL jobstreams on the PC or UNIX workstation. Within
Enterprise Developer, you can:
- Create new jobstreams
- Scan the jobstreams for syntax errors and dependencies
- Submit the jobstreams for running in an enterprise server and view the spool output files
A major objective of the JCL support is to keep the operations in MSS as similar as possible to those done on the mainframe.
Thus in MSS, you can:
Before you start to use the JCL support in MSS, you need to understand more about the following topics:
- JCL jobstreams
- Data sets
- Application programs