Course Description

TSO/ISPF in z/OS

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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to accomplish work using TSO/ISPF in the z/OS environment, including the full screen editor, job submission and monitoring facilities, the utility functions, and productivity features such as command stacking and split screen processing.

Audience

Programmers, analysts, and users who need to know how to use ISPF/PDF to edit data, run jobs, maintain data sets, or use applications written to run under ISPF/PDF.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of computer concepts. Although a programming background is not required, people with such a background will generally get the most out of this course.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SC34-4822 - ISPF User's Guide, Vol. 1
SC34-4823 - ISPF User's Guide, Vol. 2
SC34-4820 - Edit and Edit Macros

• Introduction to TSO/ISPF
• ISPF look and feel
• Data sets and libraries
• DASD organization
• VTOCs and catalogs
• Allocating data sets
• Edit / View / Browse
• Commands and command stacking
• Split screen(s)
• Utilities
• Referral lists and reference lists
• Running in GUI mode
• Submitting and monitoring jobs
• Viewing job output
• SDSF/ Flasher / IOF / (E)JES
• SMS - Storage Management Subsystem
• VSAM support
• The Workplace Shell
• Edit Clipboards

Exercises

There are 17 hands-on exercises.