TSO/ISPF in z/OS
- Recommended Duration:
- 3 Days
- Version
- z/OS Version 1.6 ISPF. This course is suitable for all earlier releases of TSO/ISPF.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to accomplish work using TSO/ISPF in the z/OS environment, 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
- VTOCs and catalogs
- Allocating data sets
- Edit / View / Browse
- Commands and command stacking
- Split screen(s)
- Utilities
- Referral lists and reference lists
- Running in GUI mode
- Submitting and monitoring jobs
- Viewing job output
- SDSF/ Flasher / IOF / (E)JES
- SMS - Storage Management Subsystem
- VSAM support
- The Workplace Shell
- Edit Clipboards
- Exercises
- There are seventeen machine exercises.
- Notes
- This course is combined with "z/OS JCL & Utilities" in the five-day course "z/OS Fundamentals: ISPF, JCL, & Utilities".