IBM MAIN FRAME

Course Overview :

IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM from 1952 to the present. During the 1960s and 1970s, the term mainframe computer was almost synonymous with IBM products due to their marketshare. Current mainframes in IBM’s line of business computers are developments of the basic design of the IBM System/360.

Prerequisties

• Basic data processing concepts
• I/O concepts
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Course Content

COBOL

• • Features of COBOL
  • COBOL Programming Syntax
  • COBOL Data Structures
  • COBOL Statements
  • File Processing in COBOL
  • COBOL Subroutines
  • Report Generation in COBOL

Job Control Language (JCL)

• • Introduction to JCL
  • Various fields in JCL Statements
  • JOB Statements
  • EXEC Statements
  • DD Statements
  • Job Processing Overview
  • Program Execution

Customer Information and Control System (CICS)

• • CICS Introduction
  • Application Programming
  • Basic Mapping Support
  • Data Access
  • Program, Interval and Task Control Commands
  • Error and Exception Handling
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Storage & Queuing Function

Mainframe DB2

• • Introduction to Database
  • Data Management and DCL
  • DDL & DML
  • Catalog & Utilities
  • Application Programming
  • CICS Interface

IBM Utilities

• • Overview of IBM Utilities
  • Main Types of Dataset Utilities
  • IDCAMS
  • IEBGENER
  • IEFBR14
  • IEBCOPY
  • SORT
  • IEBCOMPR
  • IKJEFT01
  • ADRDSSU
  • Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM)

Z O/S

• Introduction to Mainframe Operating System
• Input Output Processing
• Storage Management
• Job Management
• Data Management
• Job Execution – JCL