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TSO/ISPF (Also known as PDF)
| Duration: 3 to 5 days |
| Participants: Operations, operations support, programmers, applications development personnel, and all others who need to use TSO/ISPF panels provided by IBM. |
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Begin and end a TSO/ISPF PDF session, also known as an ISPF PDF session. - Create, edit, view, browse, copy, delete, rename, and print datasets and members. - Compress PDS datasets. - Customize your ISPF PDF screens and use various shortcuts to make efficient use of ISPF/PDF. - Use HELP to resolve error messages and to access the on-line tutorial. The following optional topics may also be presented and you will be able to:
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Overview:
- This course is designed to teach the interactive panels and menus found in TSO/ISPF. Because to a system programmer ISPF has a different meaning, the title of this course is TSO/ISPF PDF. To most programmers, operations support and other users, the title is just TSO/ISPF, as they are generally unfamiliar with the other meaning of ISPF (it is a programming language for panels.) TSO = Time Sharing Option. ISPF = Interactive System Productivity Facility. PDF = Product Development Facility. - Workshops teach programmers many helpful tips and shortcuts such as: cutting and pasting text from one program to another; changing source code indentation; converting to uppercase; finding pertinent debugging strings; etc. - Optionally, this course can include overviews on JCL, REXX, and CLISTs, which users of TSO/ISPF often encounter as they often need to edit these types of members, and then submit or execute them. - For programmers, additional presentations and labs are included for editing packed-decimal (computational-3) and fixed-point binary (computational) data. Optionally, for programmers, there are additional lessons on compiling and submitting JCL jobs, and viewing the output. |
| Prerequisites: Knowledge of data processing concepts is required, as well as a basic understanding of MVS. If students do not have a basic understanding of MVS and z/OS concepts, then these topics will be added to this TSO/ISPF course, extending the length by a day. |
| Format: Lecture and hands-on computer workshops. |
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Topic Outline:
- TSO/ISPF PDF Features IBM Manuals - Data Storage Supported by TSO/ISPF Physical Sequential PDS and members PDSE and members - TSO/ISPF Basics TSO Network Interactive vs. Batch LOGON Overview SUPERSESSION LOGON to TSO Multiple Asterisks Reset Key READY Mode ISPF Primary Option Menu ISPF/PDF Panels List Datasets ISPF Drop-Down Menus PF Keys Change PF Key Values Useful PF Key Values PF Key Labels PFSHOW Command Keylists PF Key Commands Data Concepts Data Storage Devices Data Terminology Dataset System Catalog Dataset Organizations PDS Help and Tutorial Information (PF1) Help and Tutorial Index - Create and Copy Datasets and Members Create a New Dataset Allocation Information Copying Datasets and members - Edit Editing Member List Edit Screen Recommendations Edit Line Commands Scroll Edit Primary Commands NULLS PROFILE RESET SAVE CANCEL RECOVERY ON UNDO Line Numbers and NUM Hexadecimal HILITE FIND Exclude and Show Exclude with Find Command Stacking (;) RETRIEVE CHANGE Column Display Shift Column Data Text Commands Edit Member Commands Miscellaneous Edit Primary Commands Miscellaneous Edit Line Commands Change and Find Text Change and Find Pictures Split Screens Hardware Tabs Software Tabs Logical Tabs Cut and Paste LOCATE Member Selection List Processing - UTILITY Library Utility Data Set List Utility Compressing a PDS ERROR - Can’t Save Troubleshooting Techniques - Browse Browse Commands - View - New Features (Optional) Workstation/Workplace Upload/Download/Edit PC Files Primary Panel Dynamic Area - Editing and Submitting JCL - Basics (Optional) Purpose of JCL JCL and the Operating System Typical Job Stream A Sample Job Common JCL Statements JCL Statement Format and Rules Continuation Rules Initiator Classes Output Classes /*ROUTE /*ROUTE and MSGCLASS= DD Statement - SPOOLING Load Libraries System Catalog and DASD VTOC IEBGENER Example Submitting Jobs Viewing JOB Output SDSF Commands SORT JCL SORT Control Statements SORT Examples - Editing and Executing CLISTs - Basics (Optional) The Need for CLISTs CLIST Defined CLIST Examples CLIST PDSs Simple CLIST Execute a CLIST Explicitly Execute a CLIST Implicitly - Editing and Executing REXX - Basics (Optional) Introduction REXX Environments A Sample REXX EXEC Create a REXX PDS Enter and Execute REXX Running a REXX EXEC IMPLICIT Method - BookManager (Optional) Starting BookManager Useful Book Shelves Moving Around BookManager BookManager Services Exit BookManager - QuickRef (Optional) Finding Information Quick Finds Point and Shoot - Using Online IBM Manuals (Optional) Finding and downloading free IBM manuals for TSO/ISPF Finding information in the manuals |
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