ü  INTRODUCTION TO IBM MAINFRAMES

ü  Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

ü  Brief overview about technologies used in Mainframes ( COBOL, JCL,VSAM,CICS,DB2 )

ü  Introduction to VS COBOL-II

ü  Overview Of COBOL  Programming ,  Features of COBOL Complier , compiler options

ü  Entering COBOL source program ,  Compiling COBL program

ü  Debugging COBOL program , Running COBOL complied program

ü  COBOL LANGUAGE STRUCTURE

Structure of the COBOL program ,   Character Set ,   Data names, Level numbers ,        Picture Clause, Value Clause , Usage Clause DISPLAY , COMP, COMP-1, COMP-2, COMP-3,   INDEX,   Arithmetic Expressions ,   Figurative Constants ,  User Defined ,  Literals or Constants ,  Numeric & Non-Numeric     literals ,Data Type  , Program Layout ,    Continuation Lines 

ü  COBOL PROGRAM STCTURE :   IDENTIFICATION DIVISION,  ENVIRONMENT DIVISION ,   DATA DIVISION, ,  PROCEDURE DIVISION, REDEFINES and RENAMES Clause

ü  TYPES OF STATEMENTS : Imperative , conditional , compiler directive , explicit scope terminateor , implicit scope terminator , control direction statements.

ü  INPUT/OUTPUT STATEMENTS           :   ACCEPT Statement ,  DISPLAY Statement

ü  DATA MANIPULATED STATEMENTS :  COPY Statement , PERFORM VARYING Statement , SET Statement ,  SEARCH Statement

ü  PROGRAM CONTROL STATEMENTS :STOP  RUN Statement ,    EXIT Statement ,   GO TO Statement , PERFORM Statement

ü  Difference between copy and call statements , Sub routines , difference between static call and dynamic call , difference between call by value and call by reference , difference beween main program and sub program .

ü  ARITHMETIC VERBS & STATEMENTS :ADD  Verb ,   SUBTRACT Verb ,   MULTIPLY  Verb ,  DIVIDE  Verb ,   MOVE Statement COMPUTE  Statement ,  ON SIZE ERROR  Statement ,   ROUNDED  Statement

ü  FILE HANDLING STATEMENTS : OPEN  Statement ,   READ Statement ,  WRITE Statement ,  CLOSE Statement ,  START Statement ,  REWRITE Statement , DLETE Statement

ü  FILE ORGANIZATION :  Sequential , Relative , Indexed , File Updation , Indexed Files

ü  SORTING & MERGING

ü  TABLE HANDLING : Defining a table , difference between subscript and index , difference between search and search all

JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE(JCL)

ü  JCL Applications in real time environment

ü  Structer of jcl and coding JCL program

ü  Positional and keyword parameters and difference between them

ü  Job, jobstep ,batch system

ü  Accounting informatation, programmers name

ü  CLASS , PRTY, MSGCLASS , MSGLEVEL, TYRRUN, NOTIFY,SCAN,REGION, COND

ü  EXEC Statement, TIME

ü  PGM Statement, PARM parameter, JOBLIB, STEPLIB Statement

ü  DD Statement , DD Name, DSN Parameter , DISP ,SYSIN,SYSOUT,UNIT,VOL,DCB,SPACE

ü  Instream and catalogued procedures , symbolic and overriding parameters

ü  Different ways of passing data

ü  GDG

ü  IBM Utilities , IEBGENER,IEBCOPY,IEFBR14

ü  sorting

VSAM ( VIRTUAL STORAGE ACCESS METHOD)

ü  Introduction to vsam file

ü  Advantages and disadvantage of vsam files

ü  KSDS ,

ü  ESDS

ü  RRDS

ü  LDS

ü  CI, CA, CIDF, RDF

ü  CI , CA Split

ü  Alternate index

DB2 ( DATABASE 2 )

ü  Overview of DB2

ü  RDBMS Concepts

ü  Difference between RDBMS and HDBMS

ü  Storgaegroup, database

ü  Structured query language (SQL)

ü  DDL, DML,DCL Statements

ü  Difference between scalar and column functions

ü  Sub query and co-related sub query

ü  How to find maximum and second maximum salaries

ü  Join : self , inner, outer,left, right

ü  Difference between union and union all

ü  DB2 Program preparation

ü  Precompilation

ü  Bind

ü  Plan and packge

ü  RUNSTATS and RUNTIME supervisor

ü  DCLGEN

ü  CURSOR and its life cycle

ü  SPUFI , QMF

ü  Index, views , table, tablespaces, indexspace

ü  SQLCODE,SQLCA

ü  COMMIT ,ROLLBACK , WITH HOLD Option

ü  DB2 Restart logic

ü  ISOLATION LEVEL

CICS ( CUSTOMER INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM)

ü  Features of cics

ü  Multitasking and multithreading

ü  Control tables , control blocks,TCT, FCT, PCT, PPT, RCT,….

ü  Conversation , pseudo conversation technique in cics programs and its advantages

ü  BMS Maps,

ü  PARAMETRS OF DHFMDF, DFHMSD, DFHMDI

ü  Cursor positioning techniques

ü  Difference between symbolic and physicsl maps

ü  Difference between TSQ and TDQ

ü  LINK , XCTL, RETURN

ü  CEDA, CEMT, CEDF, CECI….

Advance Tools

XPEDITOR/ TSO , XPEDITOR/CICS

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