TSO/ISPF in z/OS

Course Number:  621-TF
Recommended Duration:  3 days

Intended 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.

Course Overview
This covers this primary programming tool for the mainframe developer using the features available from z/OS V1R2 on.  This is the first hands on course for a mainframe newcomer.  There are 17 hands-on exercises.

Objectives
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.

Prerequisites
A basic understanding of computer concepts is needed.  Although a programming background is not required, people with such a background will generally get the most out of this course.

Topics

• 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