Learn Mainframe On Your Windows PC

Take the ISPF editor quiz by using the attached file in this lecture and following the shown steps to navigate to the required location.

Access the link below to take the save files quiz, then I will talk to you after that.

Initialize and load a 12 by 4 revenue table from an input file, accumulate monthly and weekly revenue, and print a formatted report, with file handling and record counting.

Explore the basics of a JCL job and how it drives mainframe batch processing on Windows PC.

Prioritize a good night's sleep as you master the basics of a restart, reinforcing focus, memory, and problem-solving for mainframe work on a Windows PC.

Open the attached document, follow the link to the JCL quiz, and complete the assessment to continue to the next lecture.

Learn how COBOL and JCL interact to read and write fixed block 80 files using infile and outfile dd names, open, read, write, and end-of-file logic.

Learn the basics of COBOL programming and work with mainframe concepts on your Windows PC, building foundational skills to write and test COBOL applications.

Learn how to write comments that guide future readers, note that the compiler ignores them, and balance detail with the Goldilocks principle, using a flower box header and mod log.

Explore indefinite loops with perform until, compare pretest and posttest forms, initialize, test, and update the control variable, and handle end-of-file to prevent infinite loops.

Learn how to pass data to a cobol program via jcl parm, through the cobol linkage section, using the two-byte length and 01 state abbrev arguments that go into main.

Explore how COBOL uses tables as arrays via redefine to create an array of structures with state abbreviations and tax rates, starting indexes at 1 and preventing out of bounds.

Learn mainframe on your Windows PC by exploring how to code a search, applying the course title and lecture focus to build practical skills.

Open input and output files, initialize a 12 by 4 table, and accumulate monthly and weekly revenue from the COBOL file, then print the report.

Build a COBOL basic reporting system that accumulates revenue into a 12 by 4 two-dimensional array, reads input data, writes to a 132-wide output, and prints header and detail lines.

Demonstrates calling a cobol subprogram, passing parameters through a linkage section, and returning a date and return code for validation.

Open the attached document and control-click to launch the COBOL quiz, then complete the questions to reinforce COBOL concepts on your Windows PC.

Explore the basics of databases by examining two tables, counselor and student, with fields, primary and foreign keys, a one-to-many relationship, and referential integrity.

Learn how to access mainframe data on a Windows PC using SPUFI and QMF, enabling efficient queries and data retrieval.

Explore how DB2 cursors in COBOL on IBM mainframes declare, open, and fetch from a SQL cursor, producing a temporary result and using 0 and 100 return codes.

Master mainframe sorting on a Windows PC with sort, syncsort, and dfsort, learning practical techniques to manage large data flows efficiently.

Explore SAS using SAS On Demand for Academics and SAS Studio, import score data, compute mass, average, and total scores, print results, then compare to mainframe workflows.

Learn how to copy files with IEBGENER from sysut1 to sysut2 using the same dcb as input, and explore how IEFBR14 can delete files via JCL.