Course Description

ISPF and JCL on 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, and who need to create or maintain JCL to accomplish these tasks.

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 various IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is desirable but not required.

• 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
• z/OS organization and workflow
• Introduction to the Work Load Manager
• JCL: rules of syntax
• JOB, EXEC, DD, OUTPUT statements
• Submitting and monitoring jobs
• Viewing job output: ISPF 3.8 and one of SDSF/ Flasher / IOF / (E)JES
• SMS - Storage Management Subsystem
• Data flow diagrams and JCL skeletons
• Utilities: IEFBR14, IEBGENER
• Introduction to IDCAMS
• Conditional JCL: IF/THEN, ELSE, ENDIF
• Cataloged and in-stream procedures
• Symbolic parameters in procedures and in open JCL
• INCLUDE, SET, JCLLIB
• Private proclibs
• Sort / Merge
• GDGs
• PDSEs
• Sources of Information

Exercises

There are 27 hands-on exercises.

Special note:

This course contains most of the content from the two courses "TSO/ISPF in z/OS" and "z/OS JCL and Utilities" but is slightly reduced to work in five days instead of six.