The z/OS course level set

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The z/OS course level set - August 2004

The top-of-the-line mainframe operating system from IBM has undergone many transformations:

OS/MVT

SVS

MVS

MVS/XA

MVS/ESA

OS/390

z/OS

Within each of these major versions, there have been constant updates and upgrades, versions, and releases

Our current courses point out release dependencies as necessary

However, as older releases go out of support, we find it unnecessarily complex to keep pointing out where certain features were introduced - it is better to integrate features that are no longer new into courses in a natural way

We are taking the occasion of the advent of z/OS to do a level set of our courses, which means

Courses developed for OS/390 levels of the operating system will be functionally stabilized (typos and technical errors will be fixed, but no updates for new functionality will be made)

These courses will remain relevant as long as customers are using the related levels of these products, probably to around 1Q of 2005

New versions of courses, and new content courses, developed for the z/OS environment, will integrate features from all previous versions of the mainframe products, assuming that the customer taking the course has access to ...

z800, z890, z900, z990, z9, z10 mainframes [or later]

z/OS V1.2 or later (this was the first version / release to support new application level function above the last release of OS/390)

High Level Assembler (HLASM)

Language Environment (LE)

Program binder (instead of the older Linkage Editor)

ISPF V5.2 or later

PDSEs (Partitioned Data Set Extended)

UNIX System Services

DB2 Version 7 or later

IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 (if they have COBOL)

IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS and OS/390 (if they have PL/I)

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