VSAM for COBOL Programmers

Course Number:  642-TF
Recommended Duration:  2 days

Intended Audience
COBOL programmers who need to work with VSAM data sets, both from an AMS (Access Method Services) perspective, and from COBOL programs.

Course Overview
This course supports Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and VM, and COBOL for OS/390 and VM.  There are six exercises.

Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to define, load, print, and delete VSAM data sets, and to process VSAM data sets from COBOL programs.

Prerequisites
The student should be able to code a COBOL program and be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.

Topics

• VSAM concepts and terms

• ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LSDS

• Access Method Services Commands

• COBOL interfaces to VSAM data

• File status checking

• Alternate indexes