Course Description

Using LE Services in z/OS

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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to use the major facilities of the product "Language Environment for z/OS", and will be able to describe the benefits and tradeoffs involved in using LE under z/OS.

Audience

Experienced programmers who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run in a z/OS environment.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong programming background in at least one of: COBOL, PL/I, C, or Assembler.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from this and other IBM manuals; access to this publication in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SA22-7561 - LE Programming Guide
SA22-7562 - LE Programming Reference

• Run-time environments
• LE message services
• The CEEBLDTX exec
• Tokens, return codes, and termination
• Storage management services
• Dump and abend services
• Condition handling services
• Inter Language Comunication
• Assembler concerns
• Preinitialization services (PIPI)
• Library Routine Retention (LRR)
• Date and time services
• LE Math services
• LE international services and locales
• LE CICS, IMS, and nested enclave concerns
• XPLINK considerations

Exercises

There are eight hands-on exercises, all based on a single case study.

Platforms Supported

The exercises are designed to be solved using COBOL or PL/I or Assembler or C; there are starter programs supplied in all four languages.