C on z/OS

Course Number:  712-JK
Recommended Duration:  3 days

Intended Audience
C programmers who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run in a z/OS (MVS) environment.

Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to code, compile, link, and run C program in the z/OS (MVS) environment, including programs that reference sequential (QSAM) files, VSAM files, DB2 data, and that communicate with IMS or subroutines written in COBOL or Assembler.

Prerequisites
The student entering this course should have a programming background in C, and should be familiar with TSO/ISPF (or any other editor used to write programs in the installation).

Topics

• Review of C fundamentals

• Introduction to IBM C/C++

• Packed decimal data

• Trigraphs

• EBCDIC/ASCII concerns

• JCL for compiling, linking, and running

• Sequential files

• VSAM files

• Processing DB2 data

• IMS concerns

• Interlanguage calls

• Overview of LE