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1.05 NCL Essentials

IBM Systems

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Course Level:intermediate
Duration:7 hours
Training Presented in:English
1.05 NCL Essentials
Duration

5 to 7 hours

Overview
Audience

Operators and Programmers requiring a knowledge of NCL.

Prerequisites

An understanding of Programming and Mainframe Computing.

Objectives

After completing this course the student should be able to:
Describe NCL execution concepts.
Write, Debug, and Read NCL procedures.
Issue NET/ MASTER, VTAM or system commands from procedures.
Create panel definitions using Edit and Panel Services.
Perform simple file processing on a user database.
Explain the concepts of a variable.
List the system level procedures in NET/ MASTER and explain their function.

Course Content
NCL Features, Facilities, & Execution Concepts

What is NCL?
Advantages of Programming in NCL
NCL Features and Procedures
Executing Procedures
NCL Process Identifier
Processing Regions and Environments
Dependent Processing Environments

NCL Syntax

NCL Statements
Comment Statements
Label Statements
Verb Statements
Built-in Function Statements
Assignment Statements
Command Statements

Variable Isolation, Substitution & Manipulation

NCL Variables and Syntax
Types of Variable
Variable Isolation and Substitution
Variable Manipulation

NCL Control Statements

&CONTROL

NCL Processing within Procedures

Procedure Structure
&DO LOOPS
&IF Logic Statements
Branching
&GOSUB, &GOTO and &RETSUB
Loop Control
Termination and Suspension Statements

Terminal Communication

&WRITE
&CMDLINE
&PAUSE
&PANEL
&PANELEND
UCL Help Utility

Edit Services

Selection Menu
Command Types
PF Keys

Panel Services

Panel Processing & Design
Control Statements
#NOTE
#FLD
#OPT
#ERR
&CONTROL Options

NCL Dependant Processing

Message Delivery Concepts
Dependent Processing
&INTCMD
&INTREAD
&INTCONT
&INTCLEAR
&INTREPL

Built-in Functions

Types
String Handling Functions
Conversion Functions
Condition Checking Functions

Arithmetic in NCL

Arithmetic Operators

File Processing

File Formats
&FILE
Allocate and Unallocate Commands
File Information
Retrieving and Updating Files

Vartables

Scope
&VARTABLE

System Level Facilities

Overview of System Level Facilities
Message Profile Concepts

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