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IBM Utilities for z/OS

Abstract
(1 Day)

IBM provides a number of powerful utility programs in the z/OS operating system family for performing data and file maintenance.  This course provides a comprehensive treatment of the use of those utility programs.  Upon completion of this course, students will be able to code the JCL necessary to execute the IBM Utilities for file maintenance.

Audience

The course is intended for application developers and system programmers who need to perform data transformations and maintenance on the z/OS family of operating systems.

Topics

• IEBGENER – copy and reformat data

• IEBPTPCH – print data

• IEBCOPY – perform PDS maintenance – copy, delete, rename

• IEBUPDTE – PDS maintenance

• IEHMOVE – move datasets

• IEHLIST – list directories on volumes and PDS’s

• User-defined variables

• Relational and Boolean operators

• Formatted printing – printf

• Conditionals

• Loops

• Arrays

• Functions

• User-defined functions

Supervised Exercises

Class will include numerous examples as well as a set of exercises reinforcing the class work.