Job Control Language

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Job Control Language

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Job Control Language - scripting languages used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. This programming language is the 124th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 56th most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “Job Control Language” in Japanese Wikipedia has 24.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.28 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Japanese) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Japanese Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 124th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Job Control Language”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Job Control Language is on the 56th place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 124th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 85 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 328 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Japanese): #19550 in August 2017
  • Global: #12959 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Japanese): #30414 in July 2008
  • Global: #57657 in January 2008

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Job Control Language
55.7586
2Korean (ko)
작업 제어 언어
28.4021
3Romanian (ro)
JCL
25.8771
4Japanese (ja)
Job Control Language
24.3389
5Portuguese (pt)
Job Control Language
20.4973
6Simple English (simple)
Job Control Language
19.1512
7German (de)
Job Control Language
17.297
8French (fr)
Job Control Language
14.9802
9Norwegian (no)
JCL
14.3084
10Czech (cs)
Job Control Language
13.2887
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Job Control Language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Job Control Language
1 194 810
2Japanese (ja)
Job Control Language
419 839
3Spanish (es)
Job Control Language
132 872
4German (de)
Job Control Language
113 808
5French (fr)
Job Control Language
101 237
6Portuguese (pt)
Job Control Language
52 119
7Russian (ru)
Язык управления заданиями
43 256
8Italian (it)
Job Control Language
40 182
9Polish (pl)
Job Control Language
19 756
10Dutch (nl)
Job Control Language
17 889
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Job Control Language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Job Control Language
2 509
2German (de)
Job Control Language
331
3Japanese (ja)
Job Control Language
296
4Spanish (es)
Job Control Language
273
5French (fr)
Job Control Language
203
6Simple English (simple)
Job Control Language
96
7Russian (ru)
Язык управления заданиями
67
8Portuguese (pt)
Job Control Language
52
9Italian (it)
Job Control Language
46
10Polish (pl)
Job Control Language
33
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Job Control Language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Job Control Language
155
2German (de)
Job Control Language
54
3French (fr)
Job Control Language
33
4Italian (it)
Job Control Language
21
5Japanese (ja)
Job Control Language
21
6Russian (ru)
Язык управления заданиями
20
7Polish (pl)
Job Control Language
18
8Danish (da)
Job Control Language
15
9Spanish (es)
Job Control Language
14
10Dutch (nl)
Job Control Language
12
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Job Control Language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Azerbaijani (az)
Jcl
0
2Czech (cs)
Job Control Language
0
3Danish (da)
Job Control Language
0
4German (de)
Job Control Language
0
5English (en)
Job Control Language
0
6Spanish (es)
Job Control Language
0
7French (fr)
Job Control Language
0
8Italian (it)
Job Control Language
0
9Japanese (ja)
Job Control Language
0
10Korean (ko)
작업 제어 언어
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Job Control Language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Job Control Language
99
2Japanese (ja)
Job Control Language
85
3German (de)
Job Control Language
39
4Korean (ko)
작업 제어 언어
14
5Russian (ru)
Язык управления заданиями
14
6Czech (cs)
Job Control Language
12
7French (fr)
Job Control Language
11
8Polish (pl)
Job Control Language
11
9Portuguese (pt)
Job Control Language
11
10Spanish (es)
Job Control Language
10
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
azAzerbaijani
Jcl
csCzech
Job Control Language
daDanish
Job Control Language
deGerman
Job Control Language
enEnglish
Job Control Language
esSpanish
Job Control Language
frFrench
Job Control Language
itItalian
Job Control Language
jaJapanese
Job Control Language
koKorean
작업 제어 언어
nlDutch
Job Control Language
noNorwegian
JCL
plPolish
Job Control Language
ptPortuguese
Job Control Language
roRomanian
JCL
ruRussian
Язык управления заданиями
simpleSimple English
Job Control Language
svSwedish
JCL

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#30414
07.2008
Global:
#57657
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#19550
08.2017
Global:
#12959
05.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Job Control Language from Wikipedia articles about Dd, JCL, Z/OS, Batch file and Punched card. Whereas reading the article about Job Control Language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Batch processing, IBM mainframe, IBM mainframe utility program, DOS/360 and Z/OS.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

sv: JCL
ro: JCL
az: Jcl
no: JCL

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