C on z/OS
- Recommended Duration:
- 3 Days
- Version
- z/OS C/C++. Course is suitable for MVS and OS/390 C/C++.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to code, compile, link, and run C program in the z/OS (MVS) environment, including programs that reference sequential (QSAM) files, VSAM files, DB2 data, and that communicate with IMS or subroutines written in COBOL or Assembler.
- Audience
- C programmers who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run in a z/OS (MVS) environment.
- Prerequisites
- The student entering this course should have a programming background in C, and should be familiar with TSO/ISPF (or any other editor used to write programs in the installation).
- Major Topics
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- Review of C fundamentals
- Introduction to IBM C/C++
- Packed decimal data
- Trigraphs
- EBCDIC/ASCII concerns
- JCL for compiling, linking, and running
- Sequential files
- VSAM files
- Processing DB2 data
- IMS concerns
- Interlanguage calls
- Overview of LE
- Exercises
- There are five machine exercises.