TSO CLIST Programming in z/OS

Course Number:  625-TF
Recommended Duration:  3 days

Intended 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.

Course Overview
This covers the CLIST language as well as the most useful TSO commands for people learning CLIST in the z/OS environment.  There are 13 hands-on exercises.

Objectives
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.

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.

Topics

• 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

• Running Programs in Foreground

• Submitting jobs to the batch

• Transmit / receive

• TSO Edit command