ISPF 2.x, JCL, KICKS, MVS38J

GGUESS in KICKS

Overview KICKS is a transaction processing system for CMS and TSO enabling execution of CICS programs directly under TSO and provides a high level of source code compatibility with CICS. Compilers supported (not an exhaustive list) include MVT COBOL and MVS GCC. KICKS is owned and authored by Mike Noel. Complete information on this product available at http://www.kicksfortso.com/ This post…

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Hercules, JCL, MVS38J, Utility

Submitting JCL to MVS 3.8J

Preface (updated  2020-01-22) JCL (Job Control Language) decks are used to submit JOBs via a reader device or an online edit session for batch processing on the public domain OS, MVS 3.8J (MVS will be used to mean MVS 3.8J in this post). As a MVS 3.8J hobbyist / enthusiast, the previous statement is elementary and unequivocal. The purpose of…

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