Malcolm Kayser Computer Training Limited

Courses in Programming (including Cobol), UNIX, Linux, IBM Mainframe,
Design Methods and Web design

www.malkayser.plus.com

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8954 1981
E-mail: malcolm@malkayser.plus.com

USING TSO/ISPF

This course provides material and exercises on the facilities provided by the ISPF Program Development Facility running under the z/OS operating system and TSO. It is mainly used to develop, maintain and test programs.

Audience

The course is suitable for all users who need to handle data sets and data including:

those users who are new to the IBM environment and need to use the ISPF/PDF facilities for program development.
those users who are converting from another IBM mainframe environment.
programmers who may be about to embark on different types of projects where they will be using the mainframe for program development and testing.

Prerequisites

Attendance of the z/OS MVS Concepts course would be useful.

Duration

This course is intended to run over 2 to 3 days depending on the depth of knowledge the delegate is required to achieve by the end of the course. Duration may also be affected by local standards at a customer's site if run in-house. Practical exercises will take part throughout the course.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will be able to:

Use the PDF editor with a degree of efficiency
Understand the use of EDIT Profiles
Use the more common options in ISPF especially the Utilities
Use the BROWSE/VIEW facility and understand the difference between them
Use the ISPF Help facility
Navigate through the ISPF facilities by using the menus, fastpaths and split screens
Submit Jobs and view their output
Customise PF key settings

Course Contents

The TSO Environment
TSO Commands
Introduction to ISPF
TSO Data Sets
ISPF Browser/Viewer
ISPF Facilities/Utilities
The PDF Editor
Job Submission

page updated: 27/12/09

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