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3 unusual facts about Job control


Job control

Batch processing was common, and interactive computer systems rare and expensive.

A typical example of this kind of language, still in use on mainframes, is IBM's Job Control Language (also known as JCL).

Buffering only provided a partial solution; eventually an output buffer would occupy all available memory or an input buffer would be emptied by the program, and the system would be forced to wait for a relatively slow device to complete an operation.


Sintran III

Now that Sintran has mostly disappeared as an operating system there are very few references to it, however a job control or batch language was available called JEC, believed to be known as Job Execution Controller, this could be used to set up batch jobs to compile COBOL programs etc.


see also

Workman

:# WORKman, described by developer Veracity Systems as a windows-based job control and task management application