z/OS TSO/ISPF Workshop

Prerequisites:

Course Description:

TSO/ISPF is the standard means for IT professionals to interact with z/OS. This course is therefore a vital course in the basic training of all staff working with z/OS. It therefore is applicable to all Application Programmers, Systems Programmers, Operations and Support Personnel new to the TSO environment.

On completion of this course delegates will be able to;

• Log-on to TSO and control the TSO session
• Navigate the ISPF panels
• Create, edit and view data sets and members within PDS and PDSE libraries
• Perform general utility functions from within ISPF
• View and manage job output using SDSF

This course includes the following modules:

What is TSO/ISPF?

• The TSO environment
• Line mode and panel mode

Using TSO/E

• The LOGON panel
• TSO/E commands and the TSO/E profile

ISPF Overview

• Standard function keys and special keys
• ISPF panel navigation
• The split screen facility
• ISPF settings

ISPF and Basic Data Set Functions

• Specifying data set names to ISPF
• The ISPF utility option
• Allocating new data sets
• Listing data set information

ISPF View, Browse and Edit

• Selecting data sets and members
• Browse, View and Edit line commands
• The Edit profile
• Main Edit commands

ISPF Utilities

• ISPF Utility library functions
• Renaming members
• The SuperCE utility

SDSF and Job Management

• Obtaining job output listings
• Action codes for job output lists
• The DA panel
• Displaying and altering initiators with the INIT option

More about TSO/ISPF

• Multiple split screens
• Option 6 the ISPF command shell
• The command delimiter
• Modifying functions keys