Easytrieve Plus for Programmers
Summary:
This hands-on course will introduce application programmers to the basics of using Easytrieve to help increase productivity in the test and production environments. Students will be able to create adhoc reports using sorting procedures, create output files and match files to speed up all tasks that are currently done using COBOL or PL/1.
Duration:
3 days/Lecture & Lab
Audience:
Programmers or Analysts who need to do report formatting and file manipulation in an IBM mainframe environment.
Topics:
- Easytrieve program sections, terms, and their syntax
- Syntax and power of Easytrieve's branch logic
- Creating well structured Easytrieve Code
- The wide variety of reporting options available
- Multiple reports from a single pass of a file
- Easytrieve's table processing capabilities
- Data manipulation and file handling features
- Compile and execute an Easytrieve program from object code
- MACROS, If's,
- Procedures
- External and Instream tables and redefined working-storage
- Subroutine processing
- Array processing, DO WHILE
- SORTing files, Virtual files
- Match Files
Prerequisites:
Participants should have a working knowledge of JCL and some type of programming exposure. (COBOL, BASIC, FOCUS)
Last Update: May 21, 2012
