Everything about Job control (computing)
In computing, job control refers to the automated control of job execution – ensuring that each job has access to adequate resources to perform correctly, that competition for limited resources does not cause a deadlock, resolving such situations where they do occur, and terminating jobs that, for any reason, are not performing as expected. Even with sophisticated automation, most systems, such as Unix-like systems, permit manual operations such as interrupting, pausing and resuming jobs and to execute them in the foreground (interactively) instead of the usual background (batch) mode for fully automated execution. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Job control (computing)A 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: System/370 job control languageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An Incentive-Aware Job Offloading Control Framework for Multi-Access Edge ComputingCited 80 times
- Go sideways: Job schedulerA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Batch processingA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
System/370 job control languageGary DeWard Brown · 1977
MVS JCLDoug Lowe · 1987
DOS/VSE JCLSteve Eckols · 1985
VSE/ESA JCLH. Frank Cervone, H. Frank Graubart-Cervone · 1992
MVS/JCLGabriel F. Gargiulo · 1991- 📕ZOS JCL (Job Control Language)Gary DeWard Brown · 2002
Complete CLErnie Malaga · 1994
MVS JCL in Plain EnglishDonna Kelly · 2002
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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