Course Description

VSAM for PL/I Programmers

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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 PL/I programs.

Audience

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

Prerequisites

The student should be able to code a PL/I 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:

SC26-7394 - AMS Reference
SC27-1460 - PL/I Language Reference
SC27-1457 - PL/I Programming Guide

• VSAM concepts and terms
• ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LSDS
• Access Method Services Commands
• PL/I interfaces to VSAM data
• Alternate indexes

Exercises

There are six hands-on exercises (two of which are optional).

Special Notes

This course includes most of the material from course G-510 (VSAM With Access Method Services).

This course supports PL/I for MVS & VM, Visual Age PL/I for OS/390, and Enterprise PL/I for z/OS.