Developer track · Core · 2 days · prerequisite: CS120
KSDS from the control interval up: IDCAMS fluency, alternate indexes, sharing and integrity — then COBOL against the cluster you built.
Cohort / corporate first self-paced release follows recording
Every session ends in a lab on your own environment. Labs are machine-checked against expected outputs — you and your L&D team always know exactly where you stand.
QSAM recap; ESDS, KSDS, RRDS and LDS and when each is used; catalogs, VTOC, VVDS.
LAB Explore the catalog of a live system.
Control intervals and areas, the index, RBA and key access, freespace — and CI/CA splits watched live.
LAB Cause a split and read the LISTCAT evidence.
DEFINE CLUSTER parameters that matter, REPRO, PRINT, LISTCAT interpretation, ALTER, DELETE, and MAXCC/IF-THEN-ELSE inside AMS.
LAB Define and load a KSDS from a copybook layout.
AIX design, DEFINE AIX and PATH, BLDINDEX, upgrade sets.
LAB Query by alternate key.
SHAREOPTIONS, disposition interplay, EXPORT/IMPORT backups.
LAB A break-and-fix sharing scenario.
Indexed READ, WRITE, REWRITE, START in the CS110 application — the bridge to CICS.
LAB Capstone: the application goes keyed.
Your seat is a private, full z/OS-compatible environment with VSAM and IDCAMS in the browser — nothing to install, snapshot and reset per exercise. By the end of the course the lab harness will have verified: a defined, loaded, indexed KSDS and a COBOL program updating it, all verified.