This course is designed to teach you the basic skills required to write programs using the REXX language in z/OS. The course covers the TSO extensions to REXX and interaction with other environments such as the MVS console.

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Learning Objectives

The objectives of this course are as follows:
- Write programs using the Rexx language
- Use various data parsing techniques
- Use built-in Rexx functions
- Create user-defined internal and external functions and subroutines
- Issue host commands from within Rexx execs
- Code programs that read and write data sets
- Use instructions and commands that manipulate the data stack
- Use Rexx debugging tools
- Write error-handling routines

1

  • Day 1

  • Unit 1 - Introduction
    Unit 2 - Getting started with REXX (start)
    Lab exercise 1
    Unit 2 - Getting started with REXX (finish)
    Lab exercise 2
    Unit 3 - Programming in REXX (start)
2

  • Day 2

  • Lab exercise 3
    Unit 3 - Programming in REXX (finish)
    Lab exercise 4
    Unit 4 - Functions and subroutines (start)
    Lab exercise 5
3

  • Day 3

  • Unit 4 - Functions and subroutines (finish)
    Lab exercise 6
    Unit 5 - Debugging and error handling
    Lab exercise 7
    Unit 6 - Executing host commands
    Lab exercise 8
4

  • Day 4

  • Unit 7 - Compound variables and the data stack
    Lab exercise 9
    Unit 8 - Reading and writing data sets in REXX
    Lab exercise 10
    Unit 9 - The parse instruction
5

  • Day 5

  • Lab exercise 11
    Unit 10 - Using REXX: REXX compiler, REXX in batch, MVS console commands
    Lab exercise 12

Audience

This is an intermediate course for people who need to write and maintain Rexx programs in the z/OS system environment.

Language

English

Prerequisites

You should be able to: - Code basic Job Control Language statements - Code in a programming language - Create, alter, and delete data sets using TSO

$3,875

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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