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Visual Basic 6 0 Database Access Part I This course provides an introduction to Visual Basic's capabilities relating to database access and manipulation in an online environment. It explains how databases are organized, how information is retrieved and manipulated in databases, and what technologies are available to ensure cross-platform and uniform access to database information. This course describes the fundamentals of viewing  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Database Access Part II This course provides a detailed look at the ActiveX Data Object (ADO)that acts as the bridge between your application and a database. Designed for intermediate to advanced Visual Basic application programmers Database administrators, Database analysts, and Database developers who are working toward the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) credential.  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Enterprise Client Server Development Part 1 This course introduces developing programs for an enterprise client/server environment. It introduces multi-tier application architecture, reviews how to instantiate a COM component, and describes how to make and compile COM configurations. It also describes how COM components are registered and identified in the Windows registry. This course also introduces the concept of transactions and  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Enterprise Client Server Dev Part II Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) is a tool that enlists objects and their associated resources into transactions, and manages those transactions to ensure that changes to data are made correctly. This course discusses the role of transactions in MTS, and explains how MTS uses a context to manage objects and transactions. Additionally, it covers the steps required to build MTS components that  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Advanced Enterprise Client Server Dev Part I This course discusses database security implementations to aid a developer in correctly programming components that access data without compromising security. The different security modes available to Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and previous versions of SQL Server are explained, as well as their respective advantages. It also explains creating Windows NT accounts and user groups. This course  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Advanced Enterprise Client Server Dev Part II This course investigates advanced concepts and technologies that will help you develop more capable and reliable client/server applications with Visual Basic. It discusses the attributes of interfaces and the concept of an interface as a contract. It examines the basic IUnknown interface, the creation and implementation of abstract classes and multiple interfaces, and the fundamentals of the  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Using the Win 32 API Part I This course provides an overview of the Microsoft Win32 application programming interface (API), how it is organized, and some of its features that you can use in your Visual Basic Windows applications. The Win32 API includes services that go beyond the core language and controls provided with Visual Basic such as system management, networking, printing, and security. Using the Win32 API, you can  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 Using the Win32 API Part II This course describes how to use some of the more common Win32 API drawing functions, it explains how to obtain and release a device context and how to draw dots, lines, and rectangles on a form or control. It also describes how to change pen and brush styles by using stock objects and by creating customized pens and brushes. In addition, it explains how to place a text string on a control or form  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 ActiveX COM Part I This course builds and extends the skills beyond basic Visual Basic programming by introducing ActiveX components and the Component Object Model (COM). The Component Object Model (COM) is an open, extensible standard on which ActiveX is based. By understanding COM, you can design applications from components that communicate through a common set of interfaces. Component software development cuts  more...

Visual Basic 6 0 ActiveX COM Part II This course covers advanced topics related to ActiveX controls. It describes how to create your own ActiveX controls, discusses the dependency of ActiveX controls on their container applications and gives an overview of ambient properties and the User Control object. This course also introduces the ActiveX Control Interface wizard, which simplifies the creation and coding of a control and  more...

Introduction to C Programming This course illustrates the basic elements of programming in the C Language. The course uses interactive programming exercises to teach the components of a C program and the syntax of basic C commands. The course begins with an overview of C and its history, comparing it with other programming languages. The structures and elements that every program must contain are introduced, then keywords and  more...

Basic C Programming This course covers the powerful C programming constructs; functions, symbolic constants, macros, and arrays. It describes the principles and processes of writing user-defined functions, the difference between user functions and C library functions, function headers and definitions, passing data among functions, and recursive functions. It also provides an understanding of life span or scope of  more...

Intermediate C Programming This course addresses two major areas of C programming: pointers and input/output. The majority of C Language programs use pointers. This course teaches the techniques for working with pointers and functions and performing input /output functions. It covers retrieving input from the keyboard, the getch( ) function, the fundamentals of performing multiple character input, and using scanf( ) to read  more...

Advanced C Programming This course introduces complex data elements and many important functions. The elements of a structure can be accessed separately or manipulated as a single variable. The course also describes other data elements, functions for the manipulation of characters, logical operators (AND, OR, XOR, INV, and SHIFT), and dynamic memory allocation. This course is not written to a version. This course is  more...

OS 390 UNIX System Services Concepts Facilities This course provides an overview of the OS/390 Shell and Utilities, which provide commands for using OS/390 UNIX System Services. The course covers a brief history of UNIX, information about the OS/390 shell, the MVS and shell environments, and customizing the shell. The terminal interface is introduced, which covers OMVS, and asynchronous terminal interface. The course covers shell scripts and  more...

OS 390 UNIX System Services Intermediate This course provides an in-depth examination of the OS/390 shell and OS/390 UNIX services, including basic system administration commands and concepts. This course is designed for application programmers, system programmers, and end users working on an MVS system and using OS/390 UNIX services for the OS/390 shell.  more...

OS 390 REXX Programming Fundamentals This course introduces the REXX instructions used to define and vary program flow, the order in which program instructions execute. Flow control is examined by using keywords to vary the order of execution. Students will examine the ways data can be shared between a calling host environment program and the REXX program which is called, or between a REXX program and a subroutine or function. REXX  more...

OS 390 REXX Program Development This course introduces the REXX instructions used to define and vary program flow, the order in which program instructions execute. Flow control is examined by using keywords to vary the order of execution. Students will examine the ways data can be shared between a calling host environment program and the REXX program which is called, or between a REXX program and a subroutine or function. REXX  more...

OS 390 TSO E REXX Programming This course discusses the background, structure, distinguishing characteristics, and major uses of the REXX language. A survey of the range of REXX strengths, features, versions, platforms and applications are presented. It also examines the structural units of REXX, beginning with individual characters and progressing to complete programs, with a discussion of REXX program execution in different  more...

OS 390 Introduction This course is an introduction to the IBM OS/390 integrated network operational environment. OS/390 presents all the elements of the S/390 system in one integrated package. This course provides a brief background to mainframe systems, and describes the basic functional areas of the OS/390 environment. The course describes the evolution of OS/390 from IBM's original MVS system and provides a  more...

OS 390 MVS Concepts and Facilities This course introduces the IBM Multiple Virtual Storage environment. It explains concepts and facilities, and its role within the S/390 system. The course covers MVS functions and system programs, data storage management, and application development.The course explains the role of MVS and identifies the data processing resources affected by the MVS operating system. The first topic presents a  more...

OS 390 MVS JCL Introduction This course provides detailed information about Job Control Language and methods for coding it to perform data processing jobs in an MVS environment. The course reviews the overall structure and purpose of JCL and introduces the three main JCL statements. The course then covers the coding of the JOB and the Execute (EXEC) statements in detail. It also describes how to analyze job output listings,  more...

OS 390 MVS JCL Intermediate This course builds and extends the skills and knowledge developed in OS/390 MVS JCL Introduction (38053). This intermediate course introduces techniques to increase the student's effectiveness as a system user and JCL programmer. The course discusses special DD statements that can extend the student's capabilities and provide relief from repetitive coding in JCL. In particular, students will learn  more...

OS 390 MVS JCL Advanced This course builds and extends the skills and knowledge developed in the OS/390 MVS JCL Introduction and Intermediate courses (38053, 38054). This advanced course introduces techniques to increase effectiveness as a system user and JCL programmer. The course reviews and extends basic concepts and skills related to the use of procedures. A review of addition, override, and nullification statements  more...

OS 390 Introduction to e-business This course provides an introduction to the elements that should be taken into consideration before a company gets involved with e-business using OS/390. The course provides a complete overview of the main aspects of e-business that will affect the initial planning stage of an e-business project. The various considerations that need to be made when planning the hardware requirements and the  more...

OS 390 Assembler Language Programming Intermediate This course provides instruction and practice in the use of the standard assembler language instructions. The course covers executable instruction and practice in the use of the standard assembler language instructions. In addition, the course covers executable instructions for data manipulation including loading and storing data, moving data in main storage, bit manipulation, binary and decimal  more...

OS 390 Assembler Language Programming Advanced This course covers comparison instructions, branching instructions and how they are used to perform selection and iteration. In addition, the Data Management Macro Instructions necessary to perform simple sequential input/output operations is covered. The techniques of modular programming in assembler are presented, including standard techniques for passing data and control. Finally, the  more...

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