The training program conducted by DUCAT is appropriate for individuals who want to enter the exciting & challenging field of Mainframes. The program focuses on the relevant Mainframe Concepts and their applications to perform standard industry quality assurance practices. The basic objective is to familiarize the participant in the IBM Mainframe environment and give a comprehensive coverage of the most popular IBM products/languages like (Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, Cobol, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, File-AID, XPEditor, Endeavor).

• Computing Environment -Key Concepts & terminology, Typical IBM MF site
• IBM Operating Systems
• IBM families of OS and hardware
• MVS Implementation
• MVS Functions
• Data Management Overview
• Job Management Overview
• MVS Tools Overview

• Introduction
• Programming Structure, Coding Formats
• Constants, Identifiers, Figurative Constants
• Procedure Division
• Arithmetic verbs
• Control verbs
• File Organization Concepts
• Sequential Files
• Trapping Runtime errors
• Index files
• Edit and deleted records in indexed files
• Report generation with index files

• What is catalog?
• Types of VSAM datasets
• IDCAMS command
• COBOL Considerations for ESDS
• Listcat overview
• Introduction to Alternate index
• Define Aix
• Define path
• BLDIndex
• COBOL Considerations for AIX
• IDCAM commands
• REPRO, EXPORT/IMPORT
• VERIFY, ALTER, DELETE
• KEYRANGES, IMBED, REPLICATE
• READPW, MASTERPW, UPDATEPW options
• Creating and using Generation Dataset Groups
• Deleting and altering GDGs

• Introduction to JCL
• Structure of JCL; Why is JCL
• EXEC statement and its various parameters
• COND parameter at JOB and EXEC statement
• DD statement and is various parameters
• Procedures
• Utilities

• Introduction Of RDBMS
• SQL overview
• DB2 overview
• Application Programming
• Basic DB2 utilities

• Introduction
• Introduction to Basic Mapping Support (BMS)
• Program Control
• File Control
• Program Preparation