IBM Mainframes

TECHNICAL MODULES

IBM Mainframe concepts

• Mainframe concepts

• Mainframe Architecture

• I/O Devices

• Operating system & characteristics

• Data & Job Managements

Job Control Language(JCL)

• Basic concepts of Jcl

• Job statement

• Execute (Exec) statement

• Data Definition (DD) statement

• Special DD statements

• Procedures

• Symbolic Parameters

• Generation data groups

• IBM utilities

Virtual Storage Access Method(VSAM)

• VSAM Features

• VSAM Organization & Structures

• Access Method Services (AMS)

• Idcams Utility

• AMS Functional Commands

• VSAM Alternate Index

• VSAM in Cobol programs

COBOL

• Introduction to Cobol

• Cobol Program Structure

• Data Division

• Procedure Division

• File Organization

• Table Handling

• Subroutines

Customer Information Control System (CICS)

• CICS Features & Components

• Transaction Flow

• CICS Command Level Programming

• CICS Exception Handling

• Terminal Control

• Basic Mapping Support

• Program Control

• File Control

• CICS Programming Techniques

Data Base 2 (DB2)

• Introduction to RDBMS

• IBM Db2 Components

• Basic SQL

• Embedded SQL

• Cursors

• Program Preparation

• SPUFI & DCLGEN

• Db2 Programming

IMS DB/DC

• IMS General Concepts

• DL/I control blocks

• Segment search arguments

• Cobol basics for IMS

• DL/I Calls

• Command Codes

• DL/I Calls exercise

• Database Access Methods

Assembler

• Fundamental Concepts

• Instructions And Address

• Fundamental Techniques

• House Keeping

• Data Declaration

• File Declaration

• Basic Operation

• I/O Software Concepts

PL/I

• Characteristics

• PL/I Programming

• Program Organization

• Built -In- Function

• Data Transmission

• Sub Routine

• File Processing’s

• Storage Classes & List Processing

REXX

• REXX Structures

• Programming Using REXX

• Built In Functions

• Stacks Push_Pop

Tools

• File aid

• DB2 Abend aid

• Xpediter

• Endeavor