COBOL Boot Camp

Content

TSO/ISPF & z/OS

• Concepts and facilities offered by z Systems mainframes-hardware and software levels.
• Hardware components
• Operating systems supported
• Compatibility with legacy systems
• z/OS operating system
• Subsystems that run on z/OS
• Online transaction processing
• Benefits of a 64-bit Operating System
• Virtualization
• Redundancy
• Availability
• Function of TSO in the z/OS Environment
• TSO Commands
• Function of ISPF in the z/OS Environment
• ISPF Main Menu & Navigating ISPF
• Utilities Group & The Editor
• Submitting Jobs
• Viewing output via SDSF

JCL & UTILITIES, SORT, SYNCSORT

• The three major JCL statements (JOB, EXEC and DD)
• Creation of datasets
• Catalogued and Instream procedures
• Building Generation Data Groups
• Creating and manipulating VSAM data sets
• Step restart and the use of conditional step execution
• Listing data sets, volume information, creating, printing and manipulating sequential and PDSs, sorting data and creating VSAM. 
• System Managed Storage (DFSMS)
• SDSF is used extensively in this module to display job execution and to make corrections, as required.

IDCAMS – JCL FOR GDGs

• Creating and manipulating generation data sets
• Introduction to Generation Data Groups (GDGs)
• Using IDCAMS in the building and manipulation of GDGs

COBOL

• Sequential Input and Output
• COBOL data formats 
• Data Validation and Data Manipulation
• Single, double and triple level Control Break Logic
• Single, and multiple Dimensional Table Handling
• Called and Calling programs
• Data validation, application testing, and debugging
• Compiler directives 
• Processing user data, processing and updating data files, and creating reports
• Accessing and updating databases (DB2 and/or IMS)
• Processing CICS transactions and MQ messages

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