Course Description

TSO CLIST Programming in z/OS

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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to accomplish work using native TSO commands and the powerful CLIST capability of TSO. CLISTs are developed that can be immediately useful in day-to-day work.

Audience

Applications and systems programmers, who need to know how to use TSO commands hand how to create or maintain TSO CLISTs. Anyone who will be creating or maintaining applications written to run under the Dialog Manager.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have experience in using ISPF/PDF, especially the editor. Additionally, experience submitting jobs to run in the batch and some programming background are helpful.

Related IBM Materials

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

SA22-7782 - TSO/E Command Langugage
                       Reference
SA22-7781 - TSO/E CLISTs: Implementation
                       and Reference

• The Terminal Monitor Program (TMP)
• TSO Commands
• CLIST Commands
• Symbolic Variables
• Control Variables
• Built-in functions
• Labels
• Working with files
• Error Routines
• Attention Routines
• Running CLISTs in batch
• Running Programs in Foreground
• Submitting jobs to the batch
• Transmit / receive
• TSO Edit command

Exercises

There are 13 hands-on exercises.