MVS, TSO/ISPF

Topic 01: Introduction to Mainframe

• Different Operating Systems

• Introduction to Z/OS
• Advantages of Mainframe
• Batch Processing
• Online Processing

Topic 02: Introduction To MVS, TSO/ISPF

• MVS concepts, AMODE, RMODE

• MVS Architecture (ESA / XA )
• Introduction to TSO
• TSO/ISPF Commands
• Special Keys
• ISPF Primary Option Menu
• Choosing and Backing Out of an Option
• Direct Branching
• Getting Out of ISPF
• Split Screen
• Context Sensitive Help
• ISPF Panel Characteristics

Topic 03: Additional

• Cache Memory, Expanded Memory

• DASD, DCN, 3990 Storage
• Address Space, Paging, Swapping, Page Stealing,
• Virtual Storage Concepts
Topic 04: Datasets

• Sequential Datasets
• Partitioned Datasets
• Compressing a PDS
• PDS Attributes
• Locating Datasets
• Dataset Names without Apostrophes
• Dataset Names with Apostrophes
• TSO Dataset Names

Topic 05: Browse

• Browsing a Sequential Dataset

• Browse Member List
• What a Browse Screen Looks Like
• Scrolling
• Scroll Amount
• Browse Primary Commands

Topic 06: Utility Menu

• The Library Utility

• Dataset Utility
• Allocating New Dataset
• Allocating a Partitioned Data Set
• Display Dataset Attributes
• Creating a Dataset Similar to Another
• Move/Copy Utility
• Dataset List Utility
• Dataset List Commands
• Compare data sets
• Compare data sets Extended
• Search data sets for strings of data
• Search data sets for strings of data Extended
Topic 07: Edit

• Edit Entry Panel

• Member Selection List
• Line Commands
• The Find Command
• The Change Command

JCL
Topic 01: Introduction to JCL

• Introduction to JCL
• JCL Statements
• JCL Syntax

Topic 02: JOB Statement

• JOB Statement
• Operands
• Positional Parameters
• Keyword Parameters
• CLASS, MSGCLASS, MSGLEVEL, PRTY
• REGION, TIME, COND
• Notify, Restart, TYPRUN

Topic 03: EXEC Statement

• EXEC Statement

• PARM, REGION, TIME, COND

Topic 04: DD Statement

• DD Statement
• Resource Identifiers
• SYSOUT
• DUMMY
• DSNAME
• DISP, DCB, LRECL, BLKSIZE, RECFM
• UNIT, SPACE, VOLUME, LABEL
• Temporary Data Sets
• Concatenated Data Sets
• Backwards Reference
• Generation Data Group

Topic 05: Control Flow

• Job Step Flow Control

• IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF Statements
• Job COND
• Step COND

Topic 06: Procedures

• What is a Procedure
• In-Stream Procedure
• Catalogued Procedure
• Symbolic Parameter
• SET Statement

Topic 07: IBM Utilities

• IBM Utilities
• IEBGENER Utility
• IEFBR14 Utility
• IDCAMS Utility Commands
• IEBCOPY Utility
• SORT Utility
Topic 08: Others

• Programming Considerations
• JES Statements
• JES2 Statements
• JES3 Statements

COBOL

Topic 01: Introduction to COBOL

• What is COBOL
• COBOL Advantages
• COBOL Disadvantages
• COBOL Coding Sheet
• COBOL Variables
• COBOL Character Set

Topic 02: Four Divisions

• Identification Division
• Environment Division
• Data Division
• Procedure Division

Topic 03: Procedure Division in Depth

• Satements
• Paragraphs
• Sections
• I-O Statements
• OPEN, CLOSE
• READ, WRITE
• STOP RUN, GOBACK
• RETURN-CODE
Topic 04: Data Handling

• VALUE Clause
• Numeric literals
• Alpha Numeric Literals
• String manupulation
• Figurative Constants
• ACCEPT
• DAY, DAY-OF-WEEK
• DISPLAY
• MOVE
• Reference Modification
• Initialize

Topic 05: Branching

• EXIT
• GOTO
• PERFORM (All flavours)

Topic 06: Usage and Redefines

• Usage Clause
• Packed Decimal
• Binary Usage
• Condition Names
• SET Verb
• Redefines
• Renames

Topic 07: Editing

• IF-ELSE
• CONTINUE, NEXT SENTENCE
• SIGN Condition
• CLASS Condition
 • Relation Condition
• Condition-Name Condition
• Table of Allowable Comparisons
• Compound & Negated IF-ELSE

Topic 08: Table Handling

• OCCURS Clause
• Building a Table (Data and Procedure Division)
• Table Lookup - Index and Subscript
• SEARCH and SEARCH ALL

Topic 09: Arithmetic Verbs

• ADD, SUBTRACT
• MULTIPLY, DIVIDE
• COMPUTE

Topic 10: Subprograms

• Call Statement
• Static and Dynamic call

Topic 11: File Handling

• Sequential File Handling

• Indexed File Handling
• Relative File Handling
• File Status Code
• Reading a record
• Writing a record
• Report Generation
• Master, Transaction Files
• Trapping Runtime errors
• SORT, Merge , COPY files
 VSAM
Topic VSAM:

• What is VSAM
• Advantages of VSAM
• KSDS - Creation, Accessing and Deletion
• ESDS - Details
• RRDS - Details
• Alternate Index
• PATH
• BLDINDEX
• Additional VSAM Commands
• VSAM utilities and defining in CICS region
(OPEN,CLOSE,ENA,DIS)
• ListCAT
• COBOL Considerations for ESDS
• IDCAMS (REPRO, EXPORT/IMPORT VERIFY, ALTER, DELETE)
• Creating and using Generation Dataset Groups, Deleting and
altering GDGs

DB2
Topic 01: Introduction to SQL

• What is SQL
• SQL Syntax Rules
• DDL, DCL, DML
• Static SQL
• Dynamic SQL
• Mainframe Dynamic SQL
Topic 02: SELECT Statements

• SQL SELECT Clause

• Selecting All Rows and Columns
• Selecting Columns Names
• Eliminating Duplicates with DISTINCT
• Arithmetic Expressions
• Columns Aliases, Using “AS”
• Literals
• Concatenating Strings
• Scalar Functions
• Replacing Null Values
• VALUE/COALESCE
• SUBSTR/SUBSTRING
• LENGTH
• CHARACTER_LENGTH
• LCASE/LOWER, UCASE
• LOCATE, POSITION
• LTRIM, RTRIM and CONCAT
• REPLACE
• ROUND, CEILING and FLOOR
• TRUNCATE
• SIGN
• For Numeric Fields Only
• DAYOFWEEK
• DAYOFYEAR
• WEEK
• QUARTER
• Changing the Date Display Format
• Finding Date Differences
• Incrementing Dates
• Extracting Parts of Dates
• Times and Timestamps
• The ORDER BY clause
Topic 03: WHERE Clause

• Basic WHEREs
• Compound Predicates with AND and OR
• Null Values
• BETWEEN AND
• IN
• LIKE

Topic 04: JOIN

• Introduction to JOIN
• Inner Joins
• Outer Joins
• Joining Three of More Tables
• Joining a Table to Itself (Self-Joins)
• Using EXISTS
• Subqueries
• UNION
• UNION ALL

Topic 05: Aggregate Functions

• MAX and MIN

• AVG and SUM
• Counting Row with COUNT (*)
• Cardinality with COUNT(DISTINCT…)
• Standard Deviation
• Behaviour of NULLs
• Grouping Rows with GROUP BY
• GROUP BY Guidelines
• Filtering Groups with HAVING
Topic 06: DML Commands

• Statements Which Update Tables

• INSERT: A Single Row
• Using and Expression in the VALUES Clause
• INSERT: Copy From Another Table
• Inserting Into Views
• UPDATE
• Using Multiple Values in the SET Statement
• DELETE
• TRUNCATE
• Table-driven Multi-row INSERT
• MERGE
• SELECT from INSERT /UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE
• Referential Integrity
• Constraints

Topic 07: Mainframe - DB2 - Part 1

• DCLGEN
• Single-Row Select
• Variables in Programs
• DB2 Datatypes vs. Host Variable Definitions
• Numeric Variables
• Character Variables
• Coding Rules and Conventions
• SQLCA
• Handling Null Values
• INSERT Examples
• UPDATE Examples
• DELETE Examples
• Rows Affected
Topic 08: Mainframe - DB2 - Part 2

• Program Preparation
• Plans, Packages & Collections
• Bind and Rebind
• Consistency Token
• Access Path and EXPLAIN

Topic 09: Mainframe - DB2 - Part 3

• Why A Cursor is Needed

• Multiple-Row Select Using A Cursor
• Sequential Update with a Cursor
• Commits and Savepoints
• Rollback and Release
• Common DB2 Abends related to Cursors

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CICS
Topic 01: CICS - Functions

• Operating Environment
• Characteristics of Online Systems
• Components and Characteristics
• Task Management
• Storage Management
• Program Management
• Interval Management
• Terminal Management
• File Management
• Temporary Storage Management
• Transient Data Management
 • Journal Management
• CICS-Supplied Transactions
• Dump Management
• Transaction Flow

Topic 02: Tables

• What are CICS Tables

• Program Control Table
• Processing Program Table
• File Control Table
• Terminal Control Table
• Sign-On Table
• Other CICS Tables
• COBOL Language Restrictions

Topic 03: Program Design

• Quasi-Reentrant
• Converational and Pseudo-Conversational
• Passing Data Between Programs
• RETURN
• XCTL, and RETURN with TRANSID
• EIB
• Exception Handling
• Handle, No Handle, Ignore, Push and Pop
• Error Handling with Resp
• Handle AID and Handle ABEND

Topic 04: File Control

• READ and WRITE Command Format

• REWRITE, DELETE, and UNLOCK
• Browse Commands
Topic 05: BMS

• What is BMS
• Advantages of BMS
• Flow of Online BMS Input processing
• Flow of Online BMS Output Processing
• Structure of Mapset Definition
• Map Definition Format
• Map Field Definition Format

Topic 06: TSQ and TDQ

• What is TSQ
• What is TDQ
• Differences between TSQ and TDQ
• Interval Control and Task Control
• START, RETREIVE, CANCEL, SUSPEND, ENQ DEQ
• CICS Transactions
• CSSN, CECI, CEBR, CEMT
• CICS COPYBOOKS - COMMAREA, EIB

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