Courseware for Teaching

Compuware Corporation does not provide a NRV: Nationally Recognized Vendor curriculum for its mainframe utilities and development tools software. Likewise, IBM does not offer courseware and training aids designed specifically to teach its system software. Given the scarcity of up to date industry standard legacy programming language text books, SYS-ED has undertaken the responsibility to develop, maintain, and refine its own mainframe utilities and development tools courseware. This courseware is utilized in classroom instruction and distance-learning delivery medium. SYS-ED mainframe courseware is extensible and can be augmented with subject matter and examples from interrelated areas of information technology.

 

Compuware Mainframe Utilities and Development Tools Training	COBOL Debugging with Abend-AID	File-AID for Analysts	File-AID: Batch
	File-AID: DB2	File-AID: IMS	File-AID/RDX: Related Data Xpert
	File-AID: TSO	CICS: Xpediter	TSO: Xpediter
Mainframe Programming Language Training Programs	Assembler Language Training Program	COBOL Training Program	PL/1 Training Program

Specialized Training: Compuware Software

COBOL Debugging with Abend-AID

• Interpret the detail and summary information which is available through Abend-AID; then use the information to perform problem resolution.

• Address the causes of errors by customizing the text of a statement and the content of its related fields.

File-AID: DB2

• How to browse and edit two related or unrelated tables.  

• Create objects based upon installation standards and generate DDL for existing objects.
  
  

File-AID: IMS

• How to use a before-and-after view which displays the content of individual fields in each changed segment.  

• The use of IMS-tailored commands for increased precision and flexibility:

  • How a parent segment and its children can be copied or repositioned in the database using either a specific COBOL-formatted key or a command such as PARENT, CHILD or TWIN.
    
    

File-AID: TSO

• Address concurrency issues when editing a VSAM dataset while it is being used by CICS or other batch programs.

• Convert and transfer data between multiple platforms: mainframe, UNIX, and MS Windows.
  
  

CICS Xpediter

• Program preparation in order to efficiently debug and test CICS applications under Xpediter.

• Techniques for debugging CICS programs, including viewing and testing data in VSAM and DB2 tables.

TSO Xpediter

• Use existing batch JCL for performing a foreground allocation of datasets in order to debug programs interactively.  

• Problem resolution and customization of the TSO Xpediter SETUP procedure.