MVS Fundamentals: ISPF, JCL, & Utilities
- Recommended Duration:
- 5 Days
- Version
- OS/390 Course is also suitable for MVS/ESA shops.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to accomplish work using ISPF and JCL. The editor, job submission and monitoring, utility functions, and productivity features of ISPF are covered. Students will be able to code JCL to run batch jobs, use Sort/Merge and the most common batch utility programs.
- Audience
- Programmers and analysts, who need to know how to use ISPF/PDF to edit data, run jobs, maintain data sets, or use applications written to run under ISPF/PDF. And who need to know how to code JCL to run jobs in MVS.
- Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of computer concepts. Although a programming background is not required, people with such a background will generally get the most out of this course.
- Major Topics
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- ISPF Look & Feel, GUI mode
- Data Sets and Libraries
- DASD Organization, VTOC's, and Catalogs
- Allocating Data Sets
- Edit / View / Browse and Utilities
- Submit and monitor jobs
- Viewing output using ISPF 3.8, and SDSF, IOF, or Flasher
- Referral Lists
- SMS - Storage Mgmt. Subsystem
- MVS Organization and Workflow
- OS/390 and MVS/ESA Structure
- JOB, EXEC, DD, OUTPUT
- Utilities: Sort/Merge, IEFBR14, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IDCAMS
- JCL Procedures
- GDG
- Exercises
- There are 28 machine exercises.
- Notes
- This course combines "Introduction to TSO/ISPF" and "MVC and OS/390 JCL & Utilities".