Day One

Introduction

• Review of TSO LOGON command and parameters
• TMP – The Terminal Monitor Program
• Basic TSO commands: SEND, LISTBC, TIME, HELP, LOGOFF
• Computer Exercise: A First Encounter with TSO

CLISTs – Command Procedures

• Symbolic Variables
• Basic CLIST Statements: READ, WRITE, WRITENR
• TSO EXEC command
• Computer Exercise: A First CLIST

Concatenation of symbolic variables

• SET statement
• Expressions
• Control Variables and Built-in Functions
• TSO PROFILE command
• CONTROL CLIST statement and Control Symbolic Variables
• Computer Exercise: Symbolic Variables & Manipulation

Clearing the Screen

• TSO Commands: LISTCAT, LISTDS
• CLIST Statements: GOTO, IF-THEN-ELSE, EXIT, DO-Sequences, SELECT
• Logic structures in CLIST
• Computer Exercise: The TSOUTIL CLIST

Day Two

TSO END Command
CLIST Attention Routines

• CLIST RETURN, ATTN statements
• Computer Exercise: An Attention Routine

TSO Commands for working with files:

• ALLOCATE, FREE, ALTLIB, LISTALC, RENAME, REPRO, DELETE
• DEFINE CLUSTER
• Computer Exercise: Creating Data

SMS – Storage Management Subsystem

• ALTER, PRINT, PRINTDS, SMCOPY
• Computer Exercise: Printing and Copying

LISTDSI CLIST statement

• Computer Exercise: The RENFILES CLIST

Error Handling Routines
Nesting CLISTs
CLIST Statements READDVAL, TERMIN

• Computer Exercise: The WFILES CLIST

Parameters and the PROC statement

• Computer Exercise: The BACKUP CLIST

Day Three

GLOBAL statement
Subprocedures, SYSCALL, NGLOBAL, and SYSREF

CLIST Statments for working with records in files

• OPENFILE, GETFILE, PUTFILE, CLOSFILE
• Computer Exercise: The LISTEX CLIST

Trapping Output from a command
Running programs in Foreground
TSO CALL Command

• Computer Exercise: Running a Program in the Foreground

Running jobs in the Background

• TSO Commands: SUBMIT, STATUS, CANCEL, OUTPUT

Running CLISTs in the batch
TSO EDIT Command

• EDIT Modes and Subcommands
• Computer Exercise: TSO EDIT

TSO TRANSMIT and RECEIVE Commands

• LOG and NAMES data sets