MVS Skill Pack for z/OS (TSO/ISPF & JCL)

Summary

This course is designed to help programmers, operations staff and managers new to the z/OS environment gain an understanding of MVS concepts, a working knowledge of TSO, ISPF and JCL. The lecture components and hands-on labs will give each student the opportunity to understand and use the basic facilities of an MVS environment.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Duration

5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is intended for personnel who are new to the MVS operating system or those who are seeking a refresher course in basic to intermediate JCL programming execution.

Topics

• MVS operating system terminology
• Introduction to DASD, Tape, and Systems Managed Storage
• Intro to Catalogs, VTOCs, and Tape Labels
• MVS Networking TCP/IP and SNA
• JES2 vs JES3
• MVS Security Overview
• What is a Parallel Sysplex
• What is UNIX System Services
• Program Product Overview CICS, DB2, IMS, WebSphere MQ
• Third-party Program Product Overview
• TSO/ISPF introduction
• ISPF hierarchy
• ISPF commands
• Using SDSF to view job output
• Coding the JCL JOB and EXEC statements
• Coding JCL DD statements
• IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF JCL statements
• JOBLIB, STEPLIB, and JCLLIB JCL statements
• OUTPUT JCL statements
• SET and INCLUDE members
• Using cataloged and in-stream JCL procedures with symbolic overrides
• Using the IBM SORT program

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