Presented by:

Tim O’Brien
Senior Systems Engineer
Fujitsu Software Corporation

NeoBatch™

Fujitsu Software
Corporation

Product Training Series

What is NeoBatch™
• NeoBatch™ is the long term solution for migrating
mainframe JCL to the Windows/.NET environment.

• It executes JCL under the control of the NeoBatch

Job Manager in a manner that is highly compatible
with mainframe batch job execution.

• Batch jobs can be maintained as JCL or have them

transformed to Microsoft® JScript® as a route to
greater .NET/Windows® operating system
integration in the future.

• NeoBatch supports both JCL and JScript execution.

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Features
• Integrates with NeoSort to provide a high
performance sort engine for most DFSORT®
and Syncsort® statements

• Easy integration with job schedulers

• Easy debugging of batch jobs

• Integrates with existing Windows

management constructs

• Fully compatible with Microsoft’s .NET

Framework and Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET

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Job Manager
• NeoBatch Job Manager:
– makes JCL execution and management easy
– executes mainframe JCL (by transforming it to
JScript under the covers)
– allows you to determine from which client(s) or
server(s) batch jobs are controlled

• Jobs provide the same features and benefits

as mainframe JCL

• Future enhancements can take advantage of

JScript features, including adding non-COBOL
job steps

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Job Manager (cont…)
• Integrates with NeoSort to provide a high
performance sort engine for most DFSORT®
and Syncsort® statements

• Easy integration with job schedulers

• Easy debugging of batch jobs

• Integrates with existing Windows

management constructs

• Fully compatible with Microsoft’s .NET

Framework and Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET

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JCL Compatibility
• NeoBatch provides • Supported Statements
good compatibility – /*
with both the syntax – /
and semantics of – //*
mainframe JCL – CNTL/ENDCNTL
– DD
– EXEC
– IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF
– INCLUDE
– JCLLIB
– JOB
– PROC/PEND
– SET

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JCL Compatibility (cont…)

• Supported – JOBCAT
Special DD – JOBLIB
Statements – SYSIN
– STEPCAT
– STEPLIB
– SYSABEND
– SYSCHK
– SYSCKEOV
– SYSMDUMP
– SYSUDUMP

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JCL Compatibility (cont…)

• Major IBM – IDCAMS

utilities that are – IEBGENER
supported – IEFBR14
– SORT
– IKJEFT01

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Supported Functionality

• Production design
• Job Execution
• JCL Parsing
• Conditional processing
• Sort
• Integrates with job schedulers
• Abends

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Supported Functionality (cont…)

• Print spooling
• SYSOUT
• Executes COBOL batch programs
• Executes programs written in
other languages
• Job and system logs
• Debugging support

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Data Sets

• Native character set

• Catalog Manager

• Generation Data Groups (GDG)

• Relational data

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Server Topology

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Exercises
• Exercise 1: NBREPRO - Cataloging and
Submitting JCL

• Exercise 2: NBVARSIZ - Cataloging a

Dataset

• Exercise 3: NBSALES - Deploying

Executables

• Exercise 4: NBCLAIMS - Accessing a

Database

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Exercises (Cont…)

• Exercise 5: Organizing My Jobs

• Exercise 6: Using the Filters

• Exercise 7: Edit and Scan

• Exercise 8: Interfacing to a
Debugger

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Exercises (Cont…)

• Exercise 9: Converting to Jscript

• Exercise 10: Using the On-Line

Help

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Troubleshooting

– Configuration Issues
– Deployment Issues
– Where to turn for help…

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