Introduction to TSO/ISPF
- Recommended Duration:
- 3 Days
- Version
- ISPF 4.1 This course covers release 4.1 and later.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to accomplish work using TSO/ISPF Version 4, including the full screen editor, job submission and monitoring facilities, the utility functions, and productivity features such as command stacking and split screen processing.
- Audience
- Programmers, analysts, and users 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.
- 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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- Introduction to TSO/ISPF
- ISPF Look and Feel
- Data Sets and Libraries
- DASD Organization
- VTOC's and Catalogs
- Allocating Data Sets
- Edit / View / Browse
- Utilities
- Referral Lists
- Running in GUI mode
- Submitting and monitoring jobs
- Viewing job output
- SDSF / FLASHER / IOF
- SMS
- Storage Management Subsystem
- VSAM Support
- The Workplace Shell
- Exercises
- There are sixteen machine exercises.
- Notes
- This course is combined with "MVS and OS/390 JCL & Utilities" in the five-day course "MVS Fundamentals: ISPF, JCL, & Utilities".