VSAM for COBOL Programmers
- Recommended Duration:
- 2 Days
- Version
- Enterprise COBOL. Also appropriate for shops running COBOL for OS/390 and VM, COBOL for MVS & VM, COBOL/370, VS COBOL II, COBOL for VSE, or any ANSI 85 COBOL.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to define, load, print, and delete VSAM data sets, and to process VSAM data sets from COBOL programs.
- Audience
- COBOL programmers who need to work with VSAM data sets, both from an AMS (Access Method Services) perspective, and from COBOL programs.
- Prerequisites
- The student should be able to code a COBOL program and be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.
- Major Topics
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- VSAM concepts and terms
- ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LSDS
- Access Method Services Commands
- COBOL interfaces to VSAM data
- File status checking
- Alternate indexes
- Exercises
- There are six exercises.