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job control language

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noun

Computers.

  1. a language used to construct statements that identify a particular job to be run and specify the job's requirements to the operating system under which it will run. JCL

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There was a job control language that scheduled daily updates and a weekly billing run.

From O+F by Wetterau, John Moncure

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