MVS Skill Pack (MVS, TSO/ISPF, JCL)

    

Summary:
This course consists of three classes designed to acclimate users to the IBM mainframe environment using OS/390 operating systems. The first class is lecture with review and is designed to give a common base of terminology for the following two sections. The TSO and ISPF course of training is lecture with instructor guided hands-on exercises in using the command prompt and graphical user interface for the operating system. The final class introduces the student to the MVS/JCL language used for production processing using lecture and instructor guided hands-on exercises.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is intended for personnel who are new to the z/OS operating systems or are seeking a refresher course in basic terminology, interfaces and JCL program execution.

Topics:

• Computer overview
• z/OS concepts
• System configuration and operating modes
• UNIX System Services
• Software Virtualization with z/VM and z/Linux
• TSO and ISPF v.5 user’s interface
• JCL statements and syntax
• JOB statement
• EXEC statement
• DD statements
• PROC and PEND statements
• JCLLIB statement
• INCLUDE and SET statements
• IF, THEN, ELSE and ENDIF statements

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Last Update: February 7, 2012