Mainframe school training courses in Columbia, SC (public, in-house or online)

This course give the student a strong foundation to the Java language with the emphasis on comparing Java to the COBOL language. Through hands-on exercises on any platform, the student will become familiar with the Java syntax and the object oriented approach that this language utilizes
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This course is intended for mainframe developers who will be transitioning into the Java development environment, or someone starting in Java.
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Introduction to Java
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This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Dialog Manager and creation of ISPF panels and applications. Topics include the ISPF environment, panel definitions, selection panels, functions, messages, file tailoring, tutorials, and basic table processing.
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Application programmers, system programmers, security administrators, operations personnel and technical support staff will benefit from this hands-on lab experience.
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The ISPF Environment
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This course provides students with an effective and systematic approach to SVC dump diagnosis within the z/OS and OS/390 operating systems. Students learn to efficiently identify system related problems in order to provide greater system availability. The course focuses on a debugging methodology that incorporates the latest Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS) techniques designed to reduce the time requirements for problem determination.
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This course is intended for system programmers, administrators, operators, managers, application programmers and TSO users who will use the CLIST programming language to automate current procedures. Students will design and invoke CLIST routines and applications, use CLIST file I/O facilities to manipulate data on storage devices, as well as code prompting, editing, and error routines within a CLIST for interactive processing. Hands-on lab exercises are used to reinforce lectures.
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This course is intended for system programmers, application programmers, administrators, analysts, operators and others who need to increase their programming power through advanced REXX facilities. Skills learned can be applied to z/OS, Unix as well as vendor products that use REXX. Students will learn to use and manipulate compound variables in order to process REXX arrays, to create advanced parsing templates, to use interactive tracing and error trapping methods as well as how to debug compl...

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