Course Description

Introduction to Application Programming (z/OS)

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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to describe what's involved in doing development or maintenance on the IBM mainframe, including data design, program design, and testing. They will also learn (or review) how to work with binary and hexadecimal number systems.

Audience

Beginning application programmers with little or no programming background, or with a programming background on a non-z/OS platform.

Prerequisites

An aptitude for programming, and an interest in the topics.

• The application programmer's job
• Platforms
• Program functions
• Describing data
• Program design
• Pseudo-descriptions, Pseudo-code, Pseudo-testing
• Converting from design to production: keying code and JCL, compiling and linking, testing, cutting over
• IBM mainframe hardware layout
• Binary number systems
• Hexadecimal number systems
• Data formats (character, packed decimal, binary)
• Memory addressing
• Tape layout
• DASD organization
• Virtual storage concepts
• z/OS architecture

Exercises

There are five paper exercises