z/OS Job Control Language & TSO/ISPF

Arcis Services
Brussels, Belgium

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced
Teacher/Instructor: Michel Castelein

Course Description:

'' Course objectives
The students will first learn MVS-OS/390-z/OS JCL on a theoretical basis.
After that the students will learn how to use TSO (Time Sharing Option) and ISPF (Interactive System Productivity Facility) efficiently by putting their theoretical JCL knowledge into practice through the execution of a series of exercices.
By performing these exercises the students will learn to make use of program utilities, procedures, GDGs (generation data groups), ",classic", and ",new", conditional JCL, etc., and how to debug JCL.

Audience
- All

Prerequisites
- You need a basic knowledge of OS/390 and/or z/OS (cf our introduction course).

Class infrastructure
- The students must have access to an OS/390 or z/OS system and logon under TSO

Course contents
JCL principles
Structure
Syntax rules
Dataset organization
VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) and non-VSAM data sets
Catalog structure
Generation Data Group (GDG)
Program utilities
IEFBR14, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, DFSORT, ...
JCL streams
JOB JCLs, PROCedures, and INCLUDE groups
Special features
Use of symbolic variables
Procedure modification techniques
Classic and new conditional JCL
TSO
Using the terminal
TSO commands
ISPF
Data set creation
ISPF editor
Data set utilities
SDSF (System Display and Search Facility)
Writing proper JCL
JCL problem solving
Types of JCL errors
ABENDs (abnormal ends)
Interpreting JCL output and the job log
JCL debugging ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:+32 2 534 49 77

School Address/Venue(s):

Fontainasstraat 27

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