Utilities - Advanced - Tips and Tricks 2.5
Duration
1.5 hours
Overview
This course contains many Utility-related tips, tricks, techniques and best-practice items that you may find useful in your day-to-day activities. It covers several new areas of functionality associated with latest z/OS releases.
Audience
Operators, application programmers, and system programmers who have a need to code and execute utilities.
Prerequisites
It is assumed that the student has successfully completed all previous Utilities courses in this curricula, or has equivalent knowledge.
Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to identify opportunities where Utilities can be used to improve the processing of data.
Course Content
Tips and Tricks - Utilities
Comparing Data Using SuperC and SuperCE
SuperC and SuperCE Process Statements
CLIST and REXX Invocation - SuperC
SuperC Highlighting
Deleting Data Sets - IEFBR14
Allocating Data Sets - IEFBR14
IKJEFT01, IKJEFT1A, and IKJEFT1B
IEBGENER or ICEGENER?
ICEGENER invoking IEBGENER
Using ICETOOL to Check for an Empty Data Set
What is the Most Efficient Utility?