hello Steve -- and thank you for your candid response.
My first acquaintance with an IBM mainframe was for about a year in 1982 when I converted a manufacturing system from an IBM DOS/VS system to a Burroughs system using JCL, Panvalet, Easytrieve, COBOL, and RJE3780. That was a "few" years ago. My next experience with the IBM platform was in 2002, when I took a one-week class in OS/390 Fundamentals, TSO/ISPF, and JCL - a "few less" years ago. My position from 2007 until recently was as an IBM user -- but not using JCL/COBOL/DB2/CICS etc. So you are unfortunately correct -- my total JCL experience on the IBM platform is barely one year, and pre-dates zOS by a "few" years. The bulk of my experience has been on the Unisys MCP platforms, dating between 1974 and 2007, and includes significant analysis, design, development, and maintenance of ISAM (IBM=VSAM) and DMSII (IBM=DB2) batch and online applications in the manufacturing, educational, and financial industries. However, I am now searching for employment, and in addition to finding a job, had hoped to complete a "bucket list" item of becoming as fully capable on an IBM platform as I am in the Unisys environment.
Your system provided an excellent opportunity to begin filling that gap, but as you are well aware, my JCL skills and knowledge are minimal. To fill in the gaps I am reviewing my 2002 training (OS/390) as well as referencing the abundant resources on the internet. In particular, I have found resources in the ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter to be extremely comprehensive, and I've been going through release notes from 2002 forward to become familiar with what has developed since then; the "redbooks" are also helpful, as is my copy of "zOS JCL, Fifth Edition" (Gary DeWard Brown). I sense your agitation in thinking that " ... a few seconds of reading about the JCL JOB statement syntax in z/OS V1R6.0 MVS JCL Reference would demonstrate a number of other syntax errors in the statement." I, too, become annoyed at people who do not take the time to find out what can be learned on their own -- including myself. While I've attempted to fully understand what is needed, I'm not sure how any of what I've read would tell me whether or not Fandezhi was set up not to use the "account ID". But I understand from your context that my first error was in not using the job statement in my JCL.CNTL - my apologies for that oversight. Your response was educational for me -- I would greatly appreciate if you should be able to point out other syntactical issues with this statement. I was also having an issue with some other statements - receiving at the last attempt a JCL 533 error - any additional help you or anyone might provide would be greatly appreciated.
I was building these from examples from my previous training and other resources, and was not aware of the impacts that the parameters I was using might have in the Fandezhi environment. I believe that just a minimum of tolerance and friendly guidance (such as using my JCL.CNTL - thanks) would put me on the right track. Being able to go through ISPF menus, using edit, allocating and creating COBOL and JCL data sets, and managing workspace according to your requirements (I even corrected block sizes to BLKSIZE=27920, and was careful to purge and compress data sets) has been very helpful! However I sense your agitation at "novices" using your system, and I understand if access is not allowed.
I wish to thank you for allowing me to use your system for the past two days -- it has been very helpful towards realizing my hope to become a fully-capable IBM developer. As a favor -- could you please show me the contents of my JCL.CNTL so that I can learn from my mistake?
MANY thanks! Kiki