JCL

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 124^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 161^st most popular programming language in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “JCL” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “JCL”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Job Control Language is on the 161^st place in local ranking of programming languages in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 124^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 328 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #3073 in September 2023
• Global: #12959 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #100852 in September 2023
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Job Control Language		55.7586
2	Korean (ko) 작업 제어 언어		28.4021
3	Romanian (ro) JCL		25.8771
4	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		24.3389
5	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		20.4973
6	Simple English (simple) Job Control Language		19.1512
7	German (de) Job Control Language		17.297
8	French (fr) Job Control Language		14.9802
9	Norwegian (no) JCL		14.3084
10	Czech (cs) Job Control Language		13.2887

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "JCL" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Job Control Language		1 194 810
2	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		419 839
3	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		132 872
4	German (de) Job Control Language		113 808
5	French (fr) Job Control Language		101 237
6	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		52 119
7	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		43 256
8	Italian (it) Job Control Language		40 182
9	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		19 756
10	Dutch (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.

The most popular language versions of the article "JCL" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Job Control Language		2 509
2	German (de) Job Control Language		331
3	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		296
4	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		273
5	French (fr) Job Control Language		203
6	Simple English (simple) Job Control Language		96
7	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		67
8	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		52
9	Italian (it) Job Control Language		46
10	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		33

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "JCL" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Job Control Language		155
2	German (de) Job Control Language		54
3	French (fr) Job Control Language		33
4	Italian (it) Job Control Language		21
5	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		21
6	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		20
7	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		18
8	Danish (da) Job Control Language		15
9	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		14
10	Dutch (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.

Language versions of the article "JCL" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Jcl		0
2	Czech (cs) Job Control Language		0
3	Danish (da) Job Control Language		0
4	German (de) Job Control Language		0
5	English (en) Job Control Language		0
6	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		0
7	French (fr) Job Control Language		0
8	Italian (it) Job Control Language		0
9	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		0
10	Korean (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.

Language versions of the article "JCL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Job Control Language		99
2	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		85
3	German (de) Job Control Language		39
4	Korean (ko) 작업 제어 언어		14
5	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		14
6	Czech (cs) Job Control Language		12
7	French (fr) Job Control Language		11
8	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		11
9	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		11
10	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		10

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Jcl
cs	Czech Job Control Language
da	Danish Job Control Language
de	German Job Control Language
en	English Job Control Language
es	Spanish Job Control Language
fr	French Job Control Language
it	Italian Job Control Language
ja	Japanese Job Control Language
ko	Korean 작업 제어 언어
nl	Dutch Job Control Language
no	Norwegian JCL
pl	Polish Job Control Language
pt	Portuguese Job Control Language
ro	Romanian JCL
ru	Russian Язык управления заданиями
simple	Simple English Job Control Language
sv	Swedish JCL

Best Rank

Norwegian: #100852 09.2023

Global: #57657 01.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #3073 09.2023

Global: #12959 05.2003

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