FYI, I am trying to learn more about z/OS and things connected to it. I have been taking online courses which I paid for myself for the last months to get started on COBOL. The next step will probably be more JCL, which is noch so much of a problem for the question I actually asked. I have researched all sorts of stuff recently, unfortunately I did not compile a list of all handbooks and tutorials I read. I have no Idea from where the Job I am using dates from. The JCLs I compared were from an online course and various other tutorials I found. Those JCLs all look very similiar and probably have one common origin. The problem is that IBMs redbooks are often hard to read for people that are trying to get started without being able to pay for courses that cost thousands of Dollars for just one week. Very often manuals are written for people who already know how things work and are not so helpful for newbies, because they require all sorts of previous knowledge to be understood. This is quite demotivating at times. If researching on such stuff one ususally finds two kinds of answers. They are either "ask your admin" (as if inheriting a text file would be better than understanding how to write one in finite time), the other one is "RTFM you unworthy fool". Both is very very frustrating.
So - yes I have spent weeks if not months finding stuff in manuals. If it would have found something that helped I would not have asked here.
Besides - if you scroll to the very top of this page the subtitle reads "A Help & Support Forum for Mainframe Beginners". That's why I thought such kind of questions would be allowed here...
