U510: Introduction to z/OS UNIX

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Introduction to z/OS UNIX - Topical Outline

Day One

Introduction to z/OS UNIX
    z/OS and UNIX System Services
    TSO User ID
    Profiles
    UNIX User ID
    z/OS UNIX - The Shell Interface under OMVS
    Computer Exercise: Getting to the z/OS Shell

More Identities
    Effective UID
    Group ID
More shell commands
    Shell Command Syntax
    Shell Commands: id
    OMVS - Some Options
    Shell Commands: logname, cal, date, echo, man, who, whoami, fc, history, r, alias
        hash, unalias
    Computer Exercise: Practice With Commands

Variables
    Shell variables
    Environment variables
    Shell Commands: export, env
    The Shell Environment
    Shell Commands: readonly, printenv
    Some Common Environment Variables
    Computer Exercise: Working With Environment Variables

UNIX Files and the Hierarchical File System (HFS)
    Hierarchical File System (HFS)
    Paths
    Commands for Files and Paths
    Shell Commands: pwd, cd, basename, dirname
    File Access Permissions

Managing and Deleteing Directories and Paths
    Making Directories
    Default Permissions
    Shell Commands: umask, mkdir, rmdir
    TSO CommandL: MKDIR
    Shell Command: ls
    Computer Exercise: Creating and Deleting Directories

Data Transfer - Part 1: TSO Commands
    File Organizations Supported
    Record Formats
    Code Pages
    Names
    Copying Files
    TSO Commands: OPUT, OPUTX, OGET, OGETX
    Computer Exercise: Copying Files

Day Two

Displaying Data Under the Shell
    Displaying data
    Shell Commands: head, tail
    Shell Commands: Using z/OS Data Set Names
    Shell Commands: cat, pg, more, pr, nl, asa, fold, cut
    Computer Exercise: Displaying Files

Managing Files and Directories
    Commands for Files and Directories
    UNIX Files - Review
    Common directories
    Shell Commands: touch, rm, chmod, chaudit, chgrp, ln, link
    Some more Environment Variables
    Shell Commands: du, df
    Computer Exercise: Working Wih Files

Piping and Redirection
    "Standard" files and file descriptors
    Pipes
    File redirection
    Shell Commands: tee, paste
    Computer Exercise: Piping and Redirection

OEDIT and OBROWSE TSO Commands
    More Irish commands
    The TSO OEDIT command
    The TSO OBROWSE command
    Shell Commands: oedit, obrowse
    Computer Exercise: OEDIT

ISHELL: Doing UNIX-y Things in an ISPF-y Way
The TSO ISHELL command
Computer Exercise: Using ISHELL

Locales and Internationalization in UNIX
    Code Pages - Reveiw
    Internationalization
    Locales
    Internationalized Applications
    What's This Got To Do With UNIX?
    Setting Locale Values
    Shell Commands: mkcatdefs, gencat, runcat, dspcat, dspmsg, localedef, locale,
        iconv, tr
    Computer Exercise: tr command

Day Three

More OMVS Features
    OMVS
    OMVS - The Parameters
    OMVS and SubCommand Mode
    Computer Exercise: More Work with OMVS

Data Transfer - Part 2: UNIX Commands
    Shell Commands: cp
    Shell Commands: mv
    Shell Commands: tso
    Computer Exercise: copying, Renaming, and Moving Files

Compressing and Uncompressing
    Compressing and Uncompressing Files
    Shell Commands: compress
    Shell Commands: uncompress
    Shell Commands: zcat

Introduction to The Web
    The Web - Basic Concepts
    Web Servers on z/OS
    Computer Exercise: Displaying a Web Page from the Mainframe

Introduction to Markup Languages
    Overview: Markup Languages
    SGML
    HTML
    XML
    HTML - An Introduction
    Computer Exercise: Writing Basic HTML

Managing Archive Files
    Archive Files
    Shell Commands: pax
    Shell Commands: tar
    Computer Exercise: Unwinding an Archive

Accessing HFS Files and Programs from Batch and TSO Applications
    JCL and HFS files
    ALLOCATE and HFS files
    Programs and subroutines
    DLLs
    UNIX System Services
    C Run Time Library services
    Computer Exercise: Accessing HFS files through non-UNIX applications

UNIX Directory List Support
HFS file attributes
The UDlist utility

telnet (Optional)
    telnet and rlogin
    The telnet interface
    Shell commands: stty, tabs, unexpand, expand
    Computer Exercise: The telnet Experience
    A Little UNIX Humor

Wrap Up: Where Do We Go From Here
Further Studies
Resources

Course Objectives
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