A700: Topical Outline

Day One

ISPF Introduction

  • TSO/ISPF/PDF
  • Keyboard Notes
  • The Logon Process
  • ISPF/PDF Primary Option Menu
  • Standard Panel Format
  • CUA Panel Formats
  • Using Action Bars
  • Getting Around in ISPF
  • Leaving ISPF
  • Computer Exercise: A First Encounter with ISPF / PDF

ISPF Look and Feel

  • The Settings Panel
  • LIST and LOG Data Sets
  • Function Keys Settings
  • Working With Keylists
  • Color, Intensity, and Highlighting
  • Look and Feel: Options
  • Look and Feel: Status
  • Computer Exercise: Changing the Look and Feel of ISPF

Working With Data

  • Files and Data Sets
  • Data Set Organizations
  • Data Set Naming
  • Locating Data Sets
  • Data Set Properties
  • SMS – Storage Management Subsystem
  • Finding a Data Set’s Properties
  • Computer Exercise: Finding a Data Set’s Properties

Allocating Data Sets

  • Reserving Space
  • Allocating a Data Set Using ISPF
  • Computer Exercise: Allocating New Data Sets

Day Two

Looking at Data – Edit, View, and Browse

  • Edit, View, and Browse
  • Member Selection Lists
  • Some View / Edit Commands
  • Computer Exercise: Introduction to ‘View’

More on Edit, View, and Help

  • More Edit / View Commands
  • String types
  • Help
  • Computer Exercise: More Edit and View, and Help

More Utility Functions

  • Move / Copy
  • Deleting a Data Set
  • Renaming a Data Set
  • The Library Utility
  • Sorting Member Lists
  • Computer Exercise: Utility Functions

Productivity Tips and Techniques

  • Quick Advance and Jump Functions
  • Split Screen
  • Command Stacking
  • CMDE Command
  • Retrieving Commands
  • Computer Exercise: Great Tricks

EDIT

  • Sequence numbers
  • Nulls
  • Line Commands: COLS, I, D, R, M, C, A, B, X, F, S, L, LC, UC, (, ), >,<
  • Computer Exercise: Working With EDIT

Edit and View Primary Commands

  • EXCLUDE, FLIP, HIDE
  • LOCATE, FIND, CHANGE
  • RFIND, RCHANGE
  • DELETE
  • SAVE, CANCEL, RESET, UNDO
  • Computer Exercise: More Work With EDIT

More on Edit / View

  • Labels
  • LOCATE – Edit / View Primary Command
  • Line Commands: O, TS
  • EDIT – Under – EDIT
  • SORT – Edit / View Primary Command
  • Computer Exercise: Sorts and Copies in Edit

Day Three

Edit / View – Passing and Receiving Data

  • CREATE, REPLACE, COPY, MOVE edit primary commands
  • CUT and PASTE edit primary commands
  • EDITSET (EDSET) edit primary commands
  • Computer Exercise: Copy, cut, and Paste in Edit

Edit Profiles

  • Profile options
  • Bounds, Mask, Tabs lines
  • Edit Action Bar Choices
  • Language-sensitive Color Editing
  • Recent Edit / View line commands: AK, BK, OK, HX
  • Computer Exercise: Using Tabs and other Profile Characteristics

Data Set List Utility and Commands

  • Option 3.4: Data Set List Does It All
  • Commands
  • Computer Exercise: DSLIST and Commands

The Application program environment

  • MVS – Multiple Virtual Storages
  • The Road to z/OS
  • z/OS Workflow
  • JES – the Job Entry Subsystem
  • JCL statement syntax
  • JOB, EXEC Statements
  • Computer Exercise: OSWTO

JCL Clues – 1

Running jobs

  • The Work Load Manager (WLM)
  • The SCHENV parameter
  • Submitting Jobs under ISPF/PDF
  • SUBMIT Edit – Browse – View Primary Command
  • Monitoring Jobs and Examining Job Output Using ISPF Option 3.8
  • Computer Exercise: Running a Job

Day Four

Introduction to Data Management

  • Data Management Terms
  • SYSIN-type data and SYSOUT-type data
  • Computer Exercise: SYSIN And SYSOUT Files

JCL Clues – 2

Tape and Disk Data Sets

  • Tape layout
  • Data Set Naming Rules
  • Units, Volumes, Catalogs

Tape and DASD DD Statements

  • Building Tape and DASD DD statements
  • Sample DD Statements
  • Data Flow Diagrams
  • Computer Exercise: JOB Using Tape And Disk Data Sets

JCL Clues – 3

SMS – System Managed Storage

  • STORCLAS, DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS
  • ISMF
  • Output DD Statements With SMS

Looking at Job output
Other DD techniques and parameters

  • Temporary data sets and DUMMY files
  • Concatenation
  • Computer Exercise: NEWF2F

Utilities and Job Output Viewing

  • IEFBR14, IEBGENER, IDCAMS
  • SDSF, Flasher, IOF, (E)JES
  • Computer Exercise: Utilities

Sort / Merge

  • JCL Requirements
  • Control Statements
  • Computer Exercise: SORT

Day Five

OUTPUT Statements

  • Computer Exercise: OUTPUT Statements

Condition Code Testing and Memory Management

  • REGION parameter
  • MEMLIMIT parameter
  • IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF statements
  • JOBRC parameter
  • Computer Exercise: Conditional Processing

JCL Procedures

  • Cataloged Procedures
  • JCLLIB statement
  • Computer Exercise: A Cataloged Procedure

JCL Procedures: Inserts and Overrides

  • Procedures and Inserts
  • Procedures and Overrides
  • Computer Exercise: Inserts and Overrides

JCL Procedures and Symbolic Parameters

  • Symbolic Parameters
  • SYSUID
  • Computer Exercise: A Procedure With Symbolic Parameters

JCL SETs and INCLUDEs

  • The SET Statement
  • The INCLUDE statement
  • Computer Exercise: Using Nested Procedures and INCLUDEs

Additional Data Set Handling Techniques

  • Generation Data Groups
  • PDSE – Partitioned Data Set, Extended

Sources of information

  • IBM publications
  • IBM Web-based information
  • Book manager
  • Quick Reference

COND parameter (reference)

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