TSO CLIST Programming
- Recommended Duration:
- 4 Days
- Version
- TSO/E REXX.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to accomplish work using native TSO commands and the powerful CLIST capability of TSO. CLISTs are developed that can be immediately useful in day-to-day work.
- Audience
- Applications and systems programmers, who need to know how to use TSO commands hand how to create or maintain TSO CLISTs. Anyone who will be creating or maintaining applications written to run under the Dialog Manager.
- Prerequisites
- At the very least, the student entering this course should have experience in using ISPF/PDF, especially the editor. Additionally, experience submitting jobs to run in the batch and some programming background are helpful.
- Major Topics
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- The Terminal Monitor Program (TMP)
- TSO Commands
- CLIST Commands
- Symbolic Variables
- Control Variables
- Built-in functions
- Labels
- Working with files
- Error Routines
- Attention Routines
- Running CLISTs in batch
- Submitting jobs to the batch
- Transmit / receive
- Exercises
- There are thirteen hands-on exercises.