Course Description

VSAM for COBOL Programmers

Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to define, load, print, and delete VSAM data sets, and to process VSAM data sets from COBOL programs.

Audience

COBOL programmers who need to work with VSAM data sets, both from an AMS (Access Method Services) perspective, and from COBOL programs.

Prerequisites

The student should be able to code a COBOL program and   be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SC26-4906 - AMS Reference (OS/390) or
SC26-7394 - AMS Reference (z/OS)

• VSAM concepts and terms
• ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LSDS
• Access Method Services Commands
• COBOL interfaces to VSAM data
• File status checking
• Alternate indexes

Exercises

There are six exercises.

Special Notes

This course includes some of the material from course G-010 (VSAM With Access Method Services).

This course supports Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and VM, and COBOL for OS/390 and VM.