Certified Developer - JCL

What is Certified Developer - JCL?

Certified Developer - JCL is an unique capability
assurance certification product crafted by
Cognizant academy which,
Certifies associates on their JCL
programming skills with an essence
of industry practice skills

JCL

Industry Practice Skills for,

Requirement Analysis
Testing Effectiveness
Improve Code quality

Certified Developer - JCL

Profiling Model
The Certified Developer - JCL profiling is split into 2 levels

Level 1 Knowledge profiling (30 Multiple Choice Questions) 30 mins

Level 2 Skill Profiling (1 Hands on Question) 3 hours 30 mins

Level 2 profiling will be done based on the number of test cases that have passed for the
solution submitted by the candidate.

Certified Developer - JCL

Profiling Model
For the Level 1 MCQ Questions:
The associate will be tested on the concepts of JCL using multiple choice questions.
For the Level 2 - Hands on Question:
A case study will be given to the associate. The associate needs to understand the
business requirement and develop JCLs and Procedures implementing all the specified
requirements.
Note:

Skeleton JCLs & Syntaxes will be provided to the associate prior to the assessment.
Sample case study and skeleton file is attached below.

IBM Personal Communications will be available to the associate to connect to

Mainframe.
Sample cas e s tudy JCL

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Assessment
Don'ts for the Certified Developer - JCL Assessment
Do not change the naming conventions
JCL (Job/Proc) Names
Program name
DD names
File names
Do not create load library for COBOL programs referred from JCL. Just provide JOBLIB or
STEPLIB for the load library mentioned in the case study
Code JCL steps with Step name as mentioned in the case study and avoid adding steps
which are not mentioned in the case study.

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Assessment
Dos for the Certified Developer - JCL Assessment
Use the skeleton provided
Ensure that your program works fine for the sample input data provided in the case study
requirement document.
Ensure you test your JCLs with various functional, implicit and negative test cases
There is no JEM/JSCAN tools available CTS Mainframe to find the JCL errors. But You
can use TYPRUN=SCAN on the Job card and submit your job. Your job will not be run but
scanned for errors.
Note:
Internet access will not be provided, but the associate will be provided IBM File manager
reference, JCL syntaxes and Skeleton
While logging into Mainframe, if you give the incorrect password thrice then the
Mainframe ID will get revoked. In that case, reach the proctor to raise GSD to get the
password reset.
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Certified Developer-JCL
Technical Scope

How to take the assessment?

Once you enter the Exam Hall, you will be provided with the URL and the password to take
up the exam.

First, you will be presented with MCQ questions. Please ensure that you complete the
MCQ questions in 30 mins so that you have enough time for Hands on.

On clicking Submit after completing the MCQ questions, you will be presented with one
JCL case study. In the instructions, a startup job will be provided, it will create the source
code with Job/Proc JCLs. (Just minimize the browser, DO NOT close it)

Once your coding is completed, extract the dataset (from Mainframe) to a notepad(.txt).
Use the START 6 command to perform the extraction.

Note: Refer the procedure given at the end of this presentation

Once the datasets are extracted, upload the JCL codes zip file using the File Upload
option at the end of the case study page.

During the course of the assessment, DO NOT close the browser window and do not click
on HOME button.
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Reference for Customize

Keyboard

Click the Remap keyboard functions from toolbar

Customize the key functions

1.
Select a key from the keyboard to customize it.
2.
Select the function to be assigned to the key
3.
Move the function to required Modifier key (Shift/Ctrl/Alt), so that the required
function can be invoked by pressing Modifier key + Selected key

Reference for Customize

Keyboard
Setting Ctrl + C for Copy

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Reference for Customize

Keyboard
Setting Ctrl + V for Paste

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Reference for Keyboard

PCOMM Enter Key Action & New Line action

New
Line

Enter
Action
Enter
Action

Mainframe Logon Procedure

Mainframe Logon
Procedure

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Getting Job Spool

The Status panel allows authorized users to display information about jobs, started tasks,
and TSO users on the JES2 queues. Access it with the ST command (SD;ST)

Initially the ISPF main menu shows the below option to enter into Job Spool.
SDSF - SDSF Panel

In the middle of any operation, if the SDSF menu option not displayed in the ISPF main
menu then logoff the mainframe session properly (From main menu -> X, LOGOFF) and
logging in again will bring the SDSF option

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Moodle Instructions

Launch IBM PCOMM, Start => All Programs => IBM Personal Communications => New Session.

Session Parameters => Host Name or IP: 10.237.206.10 and Port: 23, Apply & OK.

Code your JCL and PROCs in the PDS dataset <UserID>.SOURCE.CODE.PDS

Note: Refer next slide to know about the creation of this dataset

Follow the below naming convention for the members in the above PDS

For JOBs, the member name should be JOBFn<yyy>

For PROCs, the member name should be PRCFn<yyy>

Note: Where n -> 1,2,3 for each requirement and <yyy> denotes the last 3 digits of your user ID.
Ex: For requirement 1 & User ID TCAS046, the Job and Proc names should be JOBF1046 and PRCF1046

On completion of the assessment, download the JCL modules in text format(.txt) and upload it in Moodle thru Add
button available at the bottom of case study.

A COBOL reference and IBM File Manager reference will be made available in the below link

http://caportal/mainframeca/index.html

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Case Study Instructions

1. Submit the job TCASADM.JCL.SKELETON(CREATEDS) and get the source code PDS
created
Source code PDS: <User ID>.SOURCE.CODE.PDS gets created with its standard
members (Job and Procedure JCLs)
2. JCL Syntaxes are available at TCASADM.JCL.SKELETON(*)
3. Make use of IBM FILE MANAGER for data mapping with respect to COPYBOOK,
Start -> TS -> F -> F
Provide the appropriate file name and COPYBOOK PDS & member name
Option 1. Browse, 2. Edit & 3.3. Copy Utility (VSAM)
IBM File manager reference is made available in the below link
http://caportal/mainframeca/index.html

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Downloading Program

On completion of the assessment, download the JCLs and PROCs in text format(.txt), zip
them into a single file and then upload it in Moodle thru Add button which is found towards
the end of the case study.

Naming convention of the zip file: JCL_<<associate id>>

Note :
Use the ISPF Command [START 6] and Receive file from Host option in the
PCOMM
FTP Procedure

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Important Instructions

Please ensure that you verify the below, before leaving the assessment hall
Ensure your JCLs are available in <User ID>.SOURCE.CODE.PDS
Ensure that your JCLs are named in the format JOBFn<yyy> & PRCFn<yyy> in the
above PDS, where <yyy> denotes the last 3 digits of your user ID, n is requirement no
Ensure that your JCLs zip file is uploaded into Moodle link with the name
JCL_<Associate ID>.txt
Ensure there are no syntax errors in the JCLs which are uploaded

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Thank You!

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