COBOL Training and Seminars

Enterprise COBOL Programming Students will gain hands on experience through a series of class discussions and workshop exercises that include several modifications to a skeletal COBOL program. File processing, program looping, conditional program statements, and table processing are covered in detail. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Job Control Language Advanced Topics This course is a combination of lecture, discussion and hands-on lab sessions. First, JCL PROCedures are examined in-depth. This is followed by an extensive workshop that builds several PROCedures using the features of DD Overrides, Parameter Specification and Overides. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

COBOL Programming The course starts with an overview of structured programming concepts. The four divisions of a COBOL program and their functions are reviewed in detail. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Job Control Language and OS 390 Utilities This course is a combination of lecture, discussion and hands-on lab sessions. First, an overview of JCL is given which describes the purpose of JCL, its relationship to the operating system, and the format / rules for coding. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

SELCOPY Utility Application Programmers, System Analysts, Operations Analysts and Operators who require who must use CBL's SELCOPY to Copy files, Print files, and Select certain portions of files. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Enterprise COBOL Overview About Wintrac Wintrac provides one stop shopping for all your IT training needs. Wintrac s course catalog of over two thousand courses includes courses on Mainframe training , COBOL Training and DB2 training The lecture / discussion course begins with an overview of COBOL history leading to changes for Enterprise COBOL You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Interactive System Productivity Facility ( ISPF) This course begins with an introduction to the ISPF menu structure, menu navigation, and dataset description.. Next the ever useful PF KEYs and their functions are persented and discussed. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

COBOL Programming Advanced Topics The course is a combination lecture, discussion and hands-on workshop in several COBOL topics. Write a program to load and read single and multi-dimensional tables. SORT a sequential file in a COBOL program using both Input and Output procedures. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

COBOL for OS390 and LE370 Workshop The course starts with an overview COBOL for OS/ 390 and many of the differences from previous version of COBOL including the callable functions. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

COBOL- Debugging in Language Environment (LE) This course covers the resolution of COBOL program Abends in the Language Environment (LE). This course reviews all COBOL compiler options and does an in-depth analysis of the options that help with debugging Abends. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

CICS Command Level Programming Workshop The course begins with a review of CICS Command Level Programming. The structure and flow of several working CICS Programs is discussed in detail. Basic Mapping Support (BMS) screens also reviewed in detail. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

VSAM and IDCAMS ...M and IDCAMS that are important to the senior application COBOL programmer in new system development or maintenance. The class lab is designed to provide an in-depth work experience. The structure of VSAM will be discussed. Each of the three VSAM file types (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS) will be reviewed in detail showing the design and efficiency features of each. The concepts of Control Area (CA),  more...

VSAM IDCAMS and COBOL Programming The course covers, in detail, all aspects of using VSAM and IDCAMS that are important to the senior application COBOL programmer in new system development or maintenance. The class lab is designed to provide an in-depth work experience. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Assembler Language - Introduction This class is an introduction to Assembler Language programming. Topics include an overview of computer architecture, review of instruction formats, and basic assembler language instructions. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Assembler Language - Intermediate This class is an intermediate level course in Assembler Language programming. Topics include an introduction into subroutines, interruptible instructions and indexing You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Assembler Language - Advanced This class is an advanced level course in Assembler Language programming. Topics include an introduction into 31-bit programming, reentrant programming and other advanced techniques. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Assembler Language - Advanced Technical Workshop This class is an advanced level course intended to provide students the opportunity to work on objectives that are pertinent to their particular environments. Topics will be developed in accordance with attendee requirements prior to class. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Assembler Language - Data Management Topics This class is oriented to the advanced Assembler language programmer that includes updated information relating to features with HLASM and the requirements of processing different file types within programs. Specific topics will include dynamic allocation, data in virtual, and the data management macros for various files. In addition, the discussion will include topics that deal with sequential  more...

z-OS Diagnostics and Debugging This class is a lecture-workshop for experienced systems programmers with a focus on using the tools available to narrow down the scope of system problems, identify failed components and debug operating systems problems. Emphasis will be on problem diagnosis and "hands-on" exercises using the available tools. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

z-OS Fundamentals for Operators This course provides the fundamentals of z/ OS to operators. Topics include how data is represented, basic computer architecture, operating systems functions, job execution, controlling the z/ OS environment, and major subsystems in use in z/ OS. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

z-OS Assembler Language - Advanced Topics This class is oriented to the advanced Assembler language programmer that includes updated information relating to features with HLASM and the changes introduced with z/ OS. Specific topics will focus on 64-bit virtual storage addressing and the programming changes required to exploit new z/ OS features. New macros and data structures inherent in the z/ OS architecture will be explored. In  more...

CICS Transaction Server for z-OS Industry adoption and proliferation of Web Services capabilities into development platforms and tools are making it easier for companies to adopt a service-based development approach. The need for richer than HTML experiences and disconnected operations will lead most companies to adopt multiple user interfaces delivery architectures. Mainframes being excellent servers, it makes sense to have  more...

CICS-TS Webservices CICS product to facilitate the integration of traditional CICS applications to the Internet. This is a process that started 5 years ago with the implementation of CICS/ TS 1. 3. CICS/ TS 3. 1 has continued this trend; today, CICS applications can talk to web browsers just as well as they can talk to web servers; with the introduction of web services and SOAP, they can also talk to UNIX and .NET  more...

CICS for System Programmer The "CICS for System Programmer " is geared towards technical staff new to the CICS environment. In this course, the participant will learn how a CICS system is put together: resource definitions, system utilities both online and offline, System Initialization tables, CICS JCL, system datasets are subjects covered in depth in this course. We also discuss CICS storage management, CICS  more...

z-OS Internals This course provides a detailed examination of z/ OS for systems programmers. Topics include an introduction to computer systems hardware and an exploration of z/ OS architecture, system services and functions, storage management mechanisms, and I/ O processes. Each section will also explore the associated control block structures associated with the z/ OS operations being looked at. You can get  more...

z-OS System Operation and Facilities This course provides an examination of z/ OS for systems programmers, operators and application programmers. Topics include an introduction to the z/ series systems hardware and an exploration of z/ OS architecture, system services and functions, storage management mechanisms, and I/ O processes. In particular the focus will be to explore the operation of the z/ OS environment with an objective of  more...

z-OS Performance and Tuning This course provides the fundamentals of z/ OS performance management for systems programmers and performance analysts. Specific topics will focus on the basics of performance management, resources components that are affected, and the workload manager definitions that will be used to assign resources according to priorities. In addition, exercises related to problem diagnosis and tuning  more...

z-OS Systems Overview for Operators This course examines the changes and enhancements introduced with z-architecture, the z/ series processor, and the z/ OS operating system. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

File-AID for MVS This course teaches the use of File-AID and manipulating and browsing files. The class attendees are guidede through the File-Aid menue structures and capabilities. Record selection, browsing, allocating files (including VSAM) and editing files are discussed You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

IMS Database Programming This is a lecture, discussion, and hands-on programming course covering IMS/ VS database programming concepts, design, coding, testing and debugging. Segment Search Arguments (SSAs) are covered in detail along with emphasis on checking the PCB mask to understand the results of IMS database calls. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

IMS Transaction Monitor with Message Format Services MFS The course is a series of lectures, discussions, written exercises, and programming exercises dealing with the concepts, capabilities, and coding for IMS Transaction Monitor programs. Students will design terminal screens and code Message Format Services (MFS) macros to implement those screen designs. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

CICS Fundamentals This class covers the major concepts and facilities for CICS. The CICS management functions, transaction processing and on-line system management are covered in detail. The CICS Application Programming Interface (API) is used to access CICS capabilities including sending /receiving screen maps, reading a VSAM file and handling PF Key and CICS Exception conditions. CICS screen design and  more...

CICS Command Level Programming with BMS CICS Command Level Programming provides an understanding of the CICS system, application environment and typical applications. The structure of CICS pseudo-conversational application programs are discussed and reviewed in detail. Basic Mapping Support (BMS) is used to develop screen layouts (maps). These maps, used in the class programming exercises, are the basis for understanding the CICS  more...

CICS-TS Web server implementation This 4. 5 day class covers all the basics for implementing/ using the CICS/ Web interface. It covers implementation, administration, application programming interface available in CICS/ TS. It also provides guidance in choosing the proper implementation strategy; WEB3270 , WEBSPHERE plugin using an EXCI interface, the WEB API and JAVA are all discussed showing advantages and disadvantages of each  more...

Application Debugging Workshop The most technical CICS application course, the participants will acquire the ability to locate the source of an abend, examine the operands involved and determine corrective action. They will also be exposed to some of the debugging tools available with the CICS product. The dumps used during the exercises have all been created by programs written with COBOL/ MVS. You can get a complete list  more...

CICS for z-OS Structure Problem Analysis This course will analyze the various types of outages that affect CICS' normal execution and review the tools available to resolve these problems. This will provide the participant with the debugging skills that are necessary to perform very efficient problem investigations. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Xpediter IMS Modify the Xpediter SetUp to test programs that run under MPP, BMP, and BTS. Use the Xpediter Debugging Tools / Commands to examine program execution. Convert the "standard" Compile & Link JCL to it's Xpediter counterpart. Prepare a program to run under Xpediter. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Successful Project Management This course addresses the Main Goals of a Successful Project (Successful Project Manager) - "to deliver a quality product, on time, within budget." A series of short lectures, discussions, and workshop exercises provide the tools, techniques and approaches for counteracting cost overruns, late deliverables, and low quality. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Structured Systems Analysis and Design The ANALYSIS PORTION presents the MAJOR Structured System Analysis TOOLS used to improve the requirements definition / analysis activities of a project - Data Flow Diagrams, Data Dictionary, Processing Specifications, Data Structure Diagrams. The STRUCTURED ANALYSIS WORKSHOP sessions provide opportunities to practice the use of these major tools. The DESIGN PORTION of the class discusses  more...

Advanced Performance Management WLM Sysplex and USS The course will concentrate on the taking an integrated approach to performance management by addressing the z/ OS e-business perspective. Elements to be explored will focus on Workload Manager functions, the parallel sysplex, and UNIX system services and how each can be monitored and managed for optimum performance You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Parallel Sysplex Advanced Operations & Recovery The course will concentrate on the operational recovery aspects of the Parallel Sysplex environment. The student will learn about basic problem diagnosis, the commands necessary to display and monitor parallel sysplex status, and the means necessary to recovery from failure scenarios. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

z-OS Parallel Sysplex Concepts for System Programmers This course presents the features, functions, and requirements for running in the Parallel Sysplex environment. Capabilities of z/ series processors are reviewed regarding how each participates in the Parallel Sysplex configuration. The Coupling Facility, which forms the basis of IBM's unique method for high-speed data-sharing across all systems, is discussed at length and in significant detail.  more...

Parallel Sysplex for Operators The course will concentrate on the operations aspects of a Parallel Sysplex. In addition the student will learn about new operator functions, Sysplex components, and Sysplex operation and recovery considerations. Format of class is lecture only. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

z-OS Parallel Sysplex - Managing Performance This course examines the performance issues that occur when using a parallel sysplex. Processor architecture and the impact of various configurations will be presented. The Coupling Facility, which forms the basis of IBM's unique method for high-speed data-sharing across all systems, is discussed at length and in significant detail. The course begins with an introduction to performance management  more...

Parallel Sysplex Overview & Operations The course will concentrate on the operational aspects of the Parallel Sysplex environment. The student will learn about the hardware/ software components that constitute a parallel sysplex and the operator functions needed to manage it. Particular attention will be given to the commands necessary to collect information about the status of the sysplex and associated recovery considerations.  more...

Parallel Sysplex - Setup and Operation This course provides the introduction to the necessary tasks to define, setup, and establish a parallel sysplex environment. Topics covered will include defining policies, commands necessary for controlling the environment and performance management of CF structures. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

SMPand E Fundamentals This course provides the fundamentals of SMP/ E processing for installation and maintenance of systems software and program products. Topics will include an examination of SMP/ E commands, a detailed review of MCS statements and their purpose, and exercises to enable the student to gain a working familiarity with SMP/ E processing. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Introduction to REXX The class format is lecture, discussion, demonstration, and workshop. The course starts with an introduction to programming by presenting language components, design steps, and debugging techniques. The course uses a "model" of a programming language - REXX. The REXX programming language has been called a "programmer's programming" language; and has been extended to all IBM platforms as a  more...

JES2 Facilities and Operations This course provides the fundamentals of JES2 to I/ T Professionals. It is intended to provide the student with the understanding to control, customize and administer the JES2 subsystem in the OS/ 390 environment. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

Understanding Workload Manager (WLM) This class is a lecture-workshop for experienced systems programmers and performance analysts with a focus on WLM controls and operation. The course will explore the decision-making processes employed by WLM and how they can be monitored and evaluated. You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesmain.asp  more...

REXX Programming This course teaches the concepts and programming for REXX (Reconstructed EXtended eXecutor) language for the TSO environment The course covers the concepts and development of REXX Execs (executable code modules) The course is a combination of lecture, discussion and hands-on workshop sessions You can get a complete list of other Mainframe classes at  more...

Basic Assembler Language This course introduces students to the basic skills required to write assembler programs using the IBM High Level Assembler (HLASM). Students will code Assembler programs with the following capabilities - Use Character, packed and binary data instructions Edit input data and build output reports Processing data in tables Build program linkage Code data management macros Use dumps  more...