A750: Topical Outline

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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