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z/OS REXX Programming Workshop Self-Paced With Labs

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Details

Provider

IBM Training
Pricing

Free Online Course
Languages

English
Duration & workload

36 hours
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

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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, running REXX in batch jobs, and compiling REXX.

Syllabus

Day 1

(01:00) Unit 1 - Introduction
(01:30) Unit 2 - Getting started with REXX (start)
(01:00) Lab exercise 1
(01:00) Unit 2 - Getting started with REXX (finish)
(01:00) Lab exercise 2
(01:30) Unit 3 - Programming in REXX (start)

Day 2

(01:00) Lab exercise 3
(01:30) Unit 3 - Programming in REXX (finish)
(01:00) Lab exercise 4
(01:00) Unit 4 - Functions and subroutines (start)
(02:00) Lab exercise 5

Day 3

(01:00) Unit 4 - Functions and subroutines (finish)
(01:00) Lab exercise 6
(01:30) Unit 5 - Debugging and error handling
(01:00) Lab exercise 7
(01:00) Unit 6 - Executing host commands
(01:30) Lab exercise 8

Day 4

(01:30) Unit 7 - Compound variables and the data stack
(01:30) Lab exercise 9
(01:30) Unit 8 - Reading and writing data sets in REXX
(01:00) Lab exercise 10
(01:30) Unit 9 - The parse instruction

Day 5

(01:30) Lab exercise 11
(01:30) Unit 10 - Using REXX: REXX compiler, REXX in batch, MVS console commands
(01:00) Lab exercise 12

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