AD - New course available: Developing Applications for z/OS UNIX

I have just finished a new course that I wanted
to share briefly:

Developing Applications for z/OS UNIX - 3 days

Focuses on writing programs in COBOL, PL/I, C,
and Assembler that are intended to access HFS
files, interact with the user at a z/OS UNIX
session, and work with environment variables
and parameters. Includes using c89, cob2, and
pli commands for compiles, assemblies, and
binds. Includes calling BPX1 services and
C functions from programs written in all four
languages. Includes an extensive introduction
to "make".

Details on our website at:

http://www.trainersfriend.com/u520descr.htm

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So a summary of our z/OS UNIX curriculum so far:

Introduction to z/OS UNIX - 3 days
* basic concepts and commands
* Accessing z/OS files from UNIX commands
* Accessing HFS files from batch and TSO
* TSO commands for z/OS UNIX
* Building and maintaining a small
web site on your mainframe
* telnet session

Shell Script Programming in z/OS UNIX - 3 days
* sessions and processes
* Regular expressions
* find, grep, and more
* ed and sed editors (optional intro to vi)
* shell scripts
* using sed to create HTML from a flat file
* BPXBATCH

Developing Applications for z/OS UNIX - 3 days
* Programming interfaces in C, COBOL, PL/I, Assembler
* compiles / assemblies and binds
* Programmatic file access
* Programmatic user interactions
* Callable UNIX services (kernel services)
* make and makefiles
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It's taken me almost four years to develop
just three courses (total of nine days of
training) for our z/OS UNIX curriculum. As
many of you have seen, I have taken wrong
paths, found some bugs, found some doc
errors. But I have learned and put together
a solid set of courses that include practical,
working examples of commands, scripts, and
programs.

If your applications folks need to start
developing z/OS UNIX apps, or need to start
learning about z/OS UNIX, taking the nine
days of training can keep them from having
to take the long route (probably not four
years, because I've been doing other things,
too, but a lot of time). The objective of
all our courses is to jump start application
programmer productivity in any area we
write for. If it's appropriate for your
shop, I would greatly appreciate your
passing on our information to your
applications managers or training folks.

Thanks for patience and forebearance
for this little plea.
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Kind regards,


-Steve Comstock
800-993-9716
303-393-8716
www.trainersfriend.com
email: steve@trainersfriend.com
256-B S. Monaco Parkway
Denver, CO 80224
USA