Based on decades of developing and delivering training courses, and in response to numerous requests, The Trainer's Friend has decided to create and sell customized z/OS Application Developer Toolkits

A Toolkit provides:

• A clean, isolated environment for developing and testing new z/OS applications, and even updating existing z/OS application programs
• JCL to prepare (Assemble or compile, program bind (link edit), and so on) programs
• A place to get preliminary work done before moving code to some formal application development environment
• Working samples that demonstrate how to use services and features you want to use

Each Toolkit includes:

• Complete, working sample programs in Assembler, COBOL, C, and PL/I
• JCL to prepare (Assemble or compile, program bind (link edit), and so on) the sample programs
• JCL and sample data to test the sample programs
• Sample code that can be used as starter code or simply as examples
• A few useful subroutines
• An Installation Guide for installing and verifying the Toolkit installation, and a User's Guide with instructions on use of the Toolkit

Each Toolkit comes in two versions:

• A Personal Edition: tailored for a specific TSO userid
• A Team Edition: tailored for a team with a common set of compilers and system attributes plus a generalized set of scripts to dynamically tailor personal versions for any number of team members