MVS Skill Pack (TSO, 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.
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
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Last Update: May 23, 2012
