Job Control Language

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 130^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 78^th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Job Control Language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Job Control Language”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 416 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Job Control Language is on the 78^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 130^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 314 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #7368 in September 2018
• Global: #12977 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #39186 in September 2018
• Global: #59746 in January 2008

There are 19 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, 2026 (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		55.6823
2	Korean (ko) 작업 제어 언어		28.4507
3	Romanian (ro) JCL		25.8387
4	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		24.2369
5	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		20.4889
6	Catalan (ca) Job Control Language		19.4709
7	Simple English (simple) Job Control Language		18.8968
8	German (de) Job Control Language		17.0929
9	French (fr) Job Control Language		14.9848
10	Norwegian (no) JCL		14.2493

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Job Control Language" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Job Control Language		1 213 584
2	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		384 922
3	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		133 943
4	German (de) Job Control Language		116 403
5	French (fr) Job Control Language		103 155
6	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		52 566
7	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		44 201
8	Italian (it) Job Control Language		40 760
9	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		24 664
10	Dutch (nl) Job Control Language		18 082

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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 "Job Control Language" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Job Control Language		1 270
2	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		240
3	German (de) Job Control Language		151
4	French (fr) Job Control Language		136
5	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		67
6	Italian (it) Job Control Language		42
7	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		40
8	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		36
9	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		31
10	Dutch (nl) Job Control Language		23

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

Language versions of the article "Job Control Language" 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		163
2	German (de) Job Control Language		54
3	French (fr) Job Control Language		34
4	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		25
5	Italian (it) Job Control Language		22
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		13

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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 "Job Control Language" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Job Control Language		1
2	Azerbaijani (az) Jcl		0
3	Catalan (ca) Job Control Language		0
4	Czech (cs) Job Control Language		0
5	Danish (da) Job Control Language		0
6	German (de) Job Control Language		0
7	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		0
8	French (fr) Job Control Language		0
9	Italian (it) Job Control Language		0
10	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		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 "Job Control Language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Job Control Language		94
2	Japanese (ja) Job Control Language		76
3	German (de) Job Control Language		40
4	Korean (ko) 작업 제어 언어		19
5	Russian (ru) Язык управления заданиями		13
6	Czech (cs) Job Control Language		11
7	French (fr) Job Control Language		11
8	Polish (pl) Job Control Language		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Job Control Language		9
10	Spanish (es) Job Control Language		8

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Jcl
ca	Catalan Job Control Language
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

Simple English: #39186 09.2018

Global: #59746 01.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #7368 09.2018

Global: #12977 05.2003

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