Mainframe course for Novice by Floris Technologies

Mainframe Training Course Content

MVS - TSO/ISPF

Mainframe Hardware & Architecture
Fundamentals of z/OS
z/OS System Structures
z/OS Subsystems and Components
Virtual Storage Concepts
Job Spooling
TSO / ISPF Concepts

COBOL - Application Programming Concepts

Evolution and Features of COBOL
General Coding and Format Rules
Language Fundamentals
Input and Output Verbs
Data Movement Verbs
Arithmetic Verbs
Design and Development of Simple COBOL Programs
ON SIZE ERROR, COMPUTE, ROUNDED
Sequence Control Verbs
Classification of Conditions
Intrinsic Function in COBOL
File Organizations and access methods
Sequential File handling
Alternate Indexes in VSAM KSDS Files
COPY and CALL Verbs
JCL and COBOL Interaction through PARM Parameter Table handling
SEARCH and SEARCH ALL Verbs
STRING
UNSTRING
INSPECT
REDEFINES
RENAMES
USAGE
ISPF - Concepts, Navigation & Commands

JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE (JCL)

JCL Fundamentals
Different types of datasets (PDS, PS, etc.)
IBM MVS Utilities - IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, IKJEFT01, etc.
MVS Operator Commands
JES2 - Concepts, SDSF, Commands, etc.
Parmlibs and Proclibs - their usage and references. Knowledge on common parmlib/proclib members
TSO, Logon Procs & Commands
SMP/E concepts, commands, terminologies
IPL Process and Flow
Perform operational tasks on Parmlibs, Proclibs,
Basic Storage concepts, DFSMS basics, commands, terminologies,
IBM DFSMS Utilities - ADRDSSU, IDCAMS, etc., HSM, ISMF, ACS Routines
Security basics - Basics of RACF architecture

VSAM Fundamentals

VSAM Datasets
Sysplex (Architecture, Couple Datasets, etc.)
Ability to perform FTP, Telnet, etc.
Logrec and EREP processing, Commands and utilities

DB2 Concepts & Programming

DB2 fundamentsls
Knowledge on DB2 Objects and ability to create the different DB2 objects
Knowledge on SQL and ability to perform SQL optimization
Usage of DDL, DML, DCL
DB2 Commands
Working knowledge of all DB2 Online and Offline utilities (Ex: Imagecopy,Reorg, Recover, Rebuild, Runstats, Load, Unload , DSNJU003, DSNJU004 etc..,)
Ability to access DB2 via TSO, Batch etc
Ability to use SPUFI and all options to perform the DB2 tasks using SPUFI
Basic knowledge on DB2 ZPARMS and ability to retreive the current ZPARMS for a DB2 subsystem
Knowledge on DB2 Architecture and different Versions/Modes of DB2
Ability to increase the size of Active logs and the number of Active logs
Ability to extract the DB2 Dump & Logrec for a particular problem and send to L2 support
DB2 backup and recovery scenarios
DB2 Security - Internal and External
Ability to Bind plans and packages
Ability to perform basic problem determination related to DB2
Embedded SQL
DCLGEN Usage
Singleton SELECT DML Through embedded SQL
COBOL-DB2 Program preparation
working with Cursors

CICS Concepts & Programming

CICS fundamentals
Pseudo conversation
Quasi Re-entrancy
CICS programming concepts
Command Level CICS
BMS maps
Physical and symbolic Maps
Send/Receive map commands
sample mapset development and execution
Not to be used COBOL Verbs
Exec Interface Block EIB
Pseudo conversational programming
Validating EIBAID Keys
Dynamic Cursor Positioning
File Handling
Exception Handling
Program control operations
Interval control Operations
CICS Security
CICS Start up and Shut down
CICS Adresss spaces