z/OS VSAM and Access Method Services
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VSAM specialists take charge of VSAM data sets with the IDCAMS utility. Practical course builds on prior knowledge of JCL and OS/390 Concepts
This course is suitable for Storage Administrators, Data Base Administrators, Systems Analysts, Operations Analysts, Application Programmers, and Systems Programmers.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Interpret and code the Access Method Services (IDCAMS) commands to:
- Define and load VSAM clusters
- Define and load alternate indices
- List catalog entries
- Alter catalog entries
- Delete catalog entries
- Print data sets
- Calculate the DASD space requirements for VSAM clusters
- Code the JCL for use with Access Method Services (IDCAMS) and application programs which process VSAM clusters
- Use IDCAMS and JCL options to improve the performance of a given VSAM jobstream
- Reorganise, backup, and recover VSAM and non-VSAM data sets
- Interpret an Access Method Services listing of an ICF catalog
- Select and use the appropriate documentation to utilise VSAM and IDCAMS
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