Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Benefits:  Students who complete this course will be able to define, load, print, and delete VSAM data sets, and to process VSAM data sets from PL/I programs.

Audience:  PL/I programmers who need to work with VSAM data sets, both from an AMS (Access Method Services) perspective, and from PL/I programs.

Prerequisites:  The student should be able to code a PL/I program and be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.

Related IBM Materials:  DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs , PL/I Language Reference for the compiler used , PL/I Programming Guide for the compiler used.