ISPF and JCL on z/OS

Course Number:  624-TF
Recommended Duration:  5 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, and who need to create or maintain JCL to accomplish these tasks.

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.  There are 27 hands-on exercises.

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.

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

• z/OS organization and workflow

• Introduction to the Work Load Manager

• JCL: rules of syntax

• JOB, EXEC, DD, OUTPUT statements

• Submitting and monitoring jobs

• Viewing job output: ISPF 3.8 and one of SDSF/ Flasher / IOF / (E)JES

• SMS - Storage Management Subsystem

• Data flow diagrams and JCL skeletons

• Utilities: IEFBR14, IEBGENER

• Introduction to IDCAMS

• Conditional JCL: IF/THEN, ELSE, ENDIF

• Cataloged and in-stream procedures

• Symbolic parameters in procedures and in open JCL

• INCLUDE, SET, JCLLIB

• Private proclibs

• Sort / Merge

• GDGs

• PDSEs

• Sources of Information