TSO CLIST Programming in z/OS - Topical Outline

Day One

Introduction
    Review of TSO LOGON command and parameters
    TMP - The Terminal Monitor Program
    Basic TSO commands: SEND, LISTBC, TIME, HELP, LOGOFF
    Computer Exercise: A First Encounter with TSO

CLISTs - Command Procedures
    Symbolic Variables
    Basic CLIST Statements: READ, WRITE, WRITENR
    TSO EXEC command
    Computer Exercise: A First CLIST

Concatenation of symbolic variables
    SET statement
    Expressions
    Control Variables and Built-in Functions
    TSO PROFILE command
    CONTROL CLIST statement and Control Symbolic Variables
    Computer Exercise: Symbolic Variables & Manipulation

Clearing the Screen
    TSO Commands: LISTCAT, LISTDS
    CLIST Statements: GOTO, IF-THEN-ELSE, EXIT, DO-Sequences, SELECT
    Logic structures in CLIST
    Computer Exercise: The TSOUTIL CLIST

Day Two

TSO END Command
CLIST Attention Routines
    CLIST RETURN, ATTN statements
    Computer Exercise: An Attention Routine

TSO Commands for working with files:
    ALLOCATE, FREE, ALTLIB, LISTALC, RENAME, REPRO, DELETE,
    DEFINE CLUSTER
    Computer Exercise: Creating Data

SMS - Storage Management Subsystem
    ALTER, PRINT, PRINTDS, SMCOPY
    Computer Exercise: Printing and Copying

LISTDSI CLIST statement
    Computer Exercise: The RENFILES CLIST

Error Handling Routines
Nesting CLISTs
CLIST Statements READDVAL, TERMIN
     Computer Exercise: The WFILES CLIST

Parameters and the PROC statement
    Computer Exercise: The BACKUP CLIST

Day Three

GLOBAL statement
Subprocedures, SYSCALL, NGLOBAL, and SYSREF

CLIST Statments for working with records in files
    OPENFILE, GETFILE, PUTFILE, CLOSFILE
    Computer Exercise: The LISTEX CLIST

Trapping Output from a command
Running programs in Foreground
TSO CALL Command
    Computer Exercise: Running a Program in the Foreground

Running jobs in the Background
    TSO Commands: SUBMIT, STATUS, CANCEL, OUTPUT
Running CLISTs in the batch
TSO EDIT Command
    EDIT Modes and Subcommands
    Computer Exercise: TSO EDIT

TSO TRANSMIT and RECEIVE Commands
    LOG and NAMES data sets

Course information: A-650 / 3 Days         These Materials © Copyright 2006 by Steven H. Comstock   V2.x

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