Introduction to Mainframe and TSO & ISPF

This course is designed:

• For Beginners – who want to learn Mainframe from scratch.

• To Learn Mainframe, TSO/ISPF is the first step.

• Anyone who wants to start their career on Mainframe.

Topics as part of this course:

• Intro to Mainframe

• Difference between Batch and Online Applications

• Subsystems

• Emulator configuration, Logon and Logoff

• Introduction to TSO and ISPF panels

• ISPF options 3.2

• ISPF 3.3 COPY and MOVE

• ISPF  3.4 option: Datasets list

• TSO Commands

• LINE commands

The above-mentioned topics covered practically on the Mainframe system in this course.

Mainframe?

The computers used in large organizations to manage critical applications such as bulk data processing, enterprise resource planning and transaction processing is called mainframe computers. ... Mainframe is a technology where the requests received are processed fast and sent to the related processor cards.

TSO?

Time-Sharing Option (TSO) allows users to create an interactive session with the z/OS  system. TSO provides a single-user logon capability and a basic command prompt interface to z/OS.

ISPF?

ISPF is the shorthand for Interactive Search and Display Facility and this is a software that provides the dialog management service and users can directly use the menus to perform the required operations.

The commands that can be used in TSO can be entered via ISPF Panel and this panel has Action Bars, Program Menus Point and Shoot Field, Selection Fields and, Function Keys.