Day One
Introduction
- Review of TSO LOGON command and parameters
- TMP – The Terminal Monitor Program
- Basic TSO commands: SEND, LISTBC, TIME, PROFILE, HELP, LOGOFF
- Computer Exercise: A First Encounter With TSO
REXX – Restructured Extended Executor
- Basic concepts and terms
- Basic REXX Instructions: SAY, PULL
- TSO EXEC command, Computer Exercise: A First EXEC
RC – Return Code special variable
- Assignment Instruction
- Built-in Functions
- Numerics Issues
- TSO/E Functions
- The Data Stack
- Computer Exercise: Assignments, Functions, and The Stack,
Day Two
REXX PARSEing Capabilities
- Computer Exercise: Parsing
Clearing the Screen
TSO Commands: LISTCAT, LISTDS
More built-in functions
REXX Instructions: IF-THEN-ELSE, LEAVE, ITERATE, DO-Sequences, SELECT
Logic structures in REXX
- Computer Exercise: The TSOUTIL EXEC,
Debugging and TRACE
TSO Commands for working with files:
- ALLOCATE, FREE, LISTALC, ALTLIB, RENAME, REPRO, DELETE, DEFINE CLUSTER
- Computer Exercise: Creating Data
Day Three
SMS – Storage Management Subsystem
More TSO Commands: ALTER, PRINTDS, PRINT, SMCOPY
- Computer Exercise: Printing and Copying
LISTDSI TSO/E Function
- Computer Exercise: The RENFILES EXEC
TSO/E EXECIO Command
Buffers and Stacks
- Computer Exercise: The LISTEX EXEC
Compound Symbols and Stems
- Computer Exercise: Compound Symbols
Day Four
Additional REXX Instructions and Functions
REXX Subroutines and User-Written Functions
- Computer Exercise Subroutines
Error Handling and Condition Traps
More Built-in Functions
Trapping Output from a command
- Computer Exercise: Strings and Words
Day Five
Arithmetic, Conversion, and Boolean Built-in Functions
Running programs in Foreground
- TSO CALL Command
- TSOLIB Command
- Computer Exercise: Running a Program in the Foreground
Running jobs in the Background
- TSO Commands: SUBMIT, STATUS, CANCEL, OUTPUT
- Running EXECs in the batch
- Computer Exercise: Running EXECs in the Batch
Host environments and the Dialog Manager
TSO TRANSMIT and RECEIVE Commands
- LOG and NAMES datasets
[Level 2 REXX Components]
[The REXX compiler]
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