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Mainframe Developer Training
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Overview of Mainframe Developer Training
The Online Mainframe Developer Training course drives the candidate to become an expert in IBM mainframe concepts through hands-on approaches, topic analyses, industry scenarios, projects, and examples.
The trainers of MainframesTechHelp cover most of the Mainframe concepts with hands-on and practical training. Our instructors are highly skilled professionals with over a decade of Mainframe experience and industry expertise in advanced technologies.
Apart from practical and technical training, we also assist in resume preparation.
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Key Features
MainframesTechHelp offers Mainframe Developer Training with expert trainers. The key features are -
- 2 Months (60-90 Hours) Course Duration.
- 100% Job Oriented Training.
- Industry Expert Faculties.
- Free Demo Class Available.
- Training by Real-time Expert.
- Live server practical session.
- Resume & Interviews Preparation Support.
- Mainframe user-id (optional).
Course Content
TSO /ISPF (3 - 4 Sessions)
- Interacting with z/OS
- How to login to TSO & Instructions
- Interacting with z/OS - ISPF Panel
- ISPF Utilities Panel
- Library Utility Panel
- Dataset Utility Panel - Create PDS, PS
- MOVE/COPY Utility Panel
- Dataset list Utility Panel
- View/Edit Options in Dataset
- Member List Statistics Details
- Command Line Field on Member List
- Primary Commands in EDIT or Browse or View mode
- Dataset Manipulation Commands
- Scrolling Options
- User Profile Edit
- Line Commands
- SuperCE Compare
- Search-For Utility
COBOL (18 - 20 Sessions)
- Basics - Character Set, Character Strings, Words, User-defined Words, Reserved Words, Literal, Constant, Figurative Constants, PICTURE Symbols and character strings, Comments, Comment Line, Floating Comment Indicator, Separators
- Coding sheet
- Program structure
- Hello World Program
- Divisions - IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, DATA DIVISION, PROCEDURE DIVISION and their predefined sections.
- Data Handling - Variable (data Item) Declaration, Level numbers, Variable (Data Item), Data types, PICTURE class, VALUE clause, Computation/COMP/BINARY
- Program construction - Sequential Programming, Selective Programming, Iterative Programming
- Statement Categories - Imperative Statements, Conditional Statements, Delimited Scope Statements, Compiler-directive Statements, COPY, EJECT, SKIP
- Conditional Expressions - Class Condition, Condition-name Condition, Relation Condition, Sign Condition, Switch-status Condition, Negated Simple Condition, Combined Condition, Combined Relation Condition
- Arithmetic Expression - ADD, DIVIDE, MULTIPLY, SUBTRACT, COMPUTE, Statement Operations, CORRESPONDING Phrase, ROUNDED Phrase, SIZE ERROR Phrase
- Array / Table - Fixed-length tables, Variable-length tables, Array Subscript, Array Index, Difference between Index & Subscript, SEARCH, SEARCH ALL, Difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL
- Files Handling - File Declaration, OPEN, File Processing, READ, START, READ NEXT, READ PREVIOUS, RELEASE, WRITE, REWRITE, DELETE, CLOSE, Diffence between Files
- Sorting and Merging - SORT Statement, MERGE Statement
- Error Handling - INVALIID KEY Phrase, SIZE ERROR Phrase, FILE Status Codes
- Other - Subroutines, INCLUDE, Debugging Lines, Renames Clause, REDEFINES Clause
JCL (8 - 10 Sessions)
- Introduction to JCL (JOB Control Language)
- Coding sheet
- Structure
- Understanding of JES (Joint Entry Subsystem) & Spool-SDSF & MAXCC (Cond codes)
- Job Card
- Job Card Parameters - Positional Parameters, Keyword Parameters
- EXEC Statement & its parameters
- DD Statement & its parameters
- System reserved libraries - STEPLIB, JOBLIB, JCLLIB, PROCLIB, COPYLIB, SYSABEND, SYSMDUMP, SYSUDUMP, SYSIN
- Procedures, Type of PROC, Uses of PROC
- GDG Concept
- REFERBACK
- If Statement
- Restarting and checkpoint in JCL
- JCL Utilities
DB2 (8 - 10 Sessions)
- Db2 introduction
- Table Storage Structure
- Index Storage Structure
- Db2 SQL
- What SQL statements allowed to code in COBOL program
- How to code DB2 statments in COBOL program - SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE
- Host Variables
- SQLCA
- Precompilation Process
- BIND PROCESS
- Db2 program Execution process
- Cursor, lifecycle, and its types
- Join Statement
- DB2 Error codes
VSAM (7 - 9 Sessions)
- File access methods
- Introduction
- VSAM vs Non-VSAM
- VSAM vs DB2
- Basic concepts and Terminology
- Components
- Catalog structure
- Utility to create VSAM
- Dataset types - ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LDS
- Selecting VSAM dataset type
- File status codes
CICS (10 - 12 Sessions)
- Introduction to CICS, Batch vs Online systems, CICS system Programs and Tables
- CICS Supplied Transactions, Define Transaction
- BMS Macros – Maps and Map sets
- Pseudo–conversational Programming, SEND, RECEIVE & RETURN Triggering CICS transactions
- CICS+COBOL Program Example
- Sub Program LINK & XCTL, PGMIDERR
- Error Handling, HANDLE CONDITION, RESP, IGNORE CONDITION, NOHANDLE
- File Handling, STARTBR READNEXT READPREV ENDBR RESETBR
- Data Passing between Programs/Transactions, Queues - TDQs and TSQs
- COBOL+CICS+DB2 program example
- CICS Programs Classification
- Error Handling
Upcoming Batches Schedule for Online Training
| Mainframe Application Developer | 02-Mar-2022 | WEEKDAYS Batch | MON - FRI WeekDays |
10:00 AM (IST) | Class 1HR to 1:30 HR/Session |