Introduction

Control-M JCL Verify validates JCL jobs and issues validation reports. Control-M JCL Verify validates:

• JCL jobs

  Members that include JCL statements are analyzed to ensure that the JCL statements are valid.

• JCL procedures
  • Members that include JCL procedures are analyzed to ensure that the JCL procedures are valid.
  • Reformatting and enforcement processes can be applied to JCL procedures.
• Control-M job definitions
  • Members, which Control-M job definitions refer to by MEMNAME and MEMLIB, are analyzed to ensure that the JCL statements are valid.
  • In-stream JCL statements, which are included in the job definition itself, are analyzed to ensure that they are valid.

  Note: For handling of Control-M conditional JCL statements, see the description of the CTMCJCLI parameter in Control-M/JCL Verify management parameters in the INCONTROL for z/OS Installation Guide: Customizing.

Control-M JCL Verify verifies the following issues:

• Basic JCL syntax
• JES2 and JES3 statements
• Syntax of IBM utilities

  Syntax check of the IDCAMS ALLOCATE command is limited to the most important parameters.

• DB2 subsystem, plan status, and program existence as specified in the TSO DSN command

  (SYSTEM, PLAN, PROGRAM, LIBRARY, and CP parameters)

• Dataset verification (except for ADRDSSU), including allocation (conditional and unconditional) and space check for SMS and non-SMS datasets

  Space check is not performed for datasets allocated through the IDCAMS utility.

• Job flow and dependencies
• Dataset access privileges
• Load module existence

Control-M JCL Verify ensures that JCL statements comply with enterprise standards using the following rule-based processes:

• Reformatting
• Enforcement
• Site standards

Control-M JCL Verify consists of the following features:

• A batch utility (CTJVER) for verifying JCL jobs and Control-M job definitions
• A batch utility (CTJENR) for reformatting or enforcement of JCL jobs
• A batch utility (CTJPLAN) for verifying Control-M jobs that are scheduled for submission
• An edit macro, which can be invoked from ISPF, for verifying a job being edited
• New Control-M JCL Verify JV option available from the IOA Primary Option Menu
• New line options and commands for invoking Control-M JCL Verify from Control-M panels
• A Control-M JCL Verify application program interface (API) for performing JCL verification from user applications
• A batch utility (CTJMRFLW) for dependency awareness verification

Note: The utility verifications are available for each one of the above features.