Day One

Introduction to z/OS UNIX

• z/OS and UNIX System Services
• TSO User ID
• Profiles
• UNIX User ID
• z/OS UNIX – The Shell Interface under OMVS
• Computer Exercise:  Getting to the z/OS Shell

More Identities

• Effective UID
• Group ID

More shell commands

• Shell Command Syntax
• Shell Commands: id
• OMVS – Some Options
• Shell Commands: logname, cal, date, echo, man, who, whoami, fc, history, r, alias, hash, unalias
• Computer Exercise:  Practice With Commands

Variables

• Shell variables
• Environment variables
• Shell Commands: export, env
• The Shell Environment
• Shell Commands: readonly, printenv
• Some Common Environment Variables
• Computer Exercise:  Working With Environment Variables

UNIX Files and the Hierarchical File System (HFS)

• Hierarchical File System (HFS)
• Paths
• Commands for Files and Paths
• Shell Commands: pwd, cd, basename, dirname
• File Access Permissions

Managing and Deleting Directories and Paths

• Making Directories
• Default Permissions
• Shell Commands: umask, mkdir, rmdir
• TSO Command: MKDIR
• Shell Command: ls
• Computer Exercise:  Creating and Deleting Directories

Data Transfer – Part 1: TSO Commands

• File Organizations Supported
• Record Formats
• Code Pages
• Names
• Copying Files
• TSO Commands: OPUT, OPUTX, OGET, OGETX
• Computer Exercise:  Copying Files

Day Two

Displaying Data Under the Shell

• Displaying data
• Shell Commands: head, tail
• Shell Commands: Using z/OS Data Set Names
• Shell Commands: cat, pg, more, pr, nl, asa, fold, cut
• Computer Exercise:  Displaying Files

Managing Files and Directories

• Commands for Files and Directories
• UNIX Files – Review
• Common directories
• Shell Commands: touch, rm, chmod, chaudit, chgrp, ln, link
• Some more Environment Variables
• Shell Commands: du, df
• Computer Exercise:  Working With Files

Piping and Redirection

• Standard files and file descriptors
• Pipes
• File redirection
• Shell Commands: tee, paste
• Computer Exercise:  Piping and Redirection

OEDIT and OBROWSE TSO Commands

• More Irish commands
• The TSO OEDIT command
• The TSO OBROWSE command
• Shell Commands: oedit, obrowse
• Computer Exercise: Working Wih Files:  OEDIT

ISHELL: Doing UNIX-y Things in an ISPF-y Way

• The TSO ISHELL command
• Computer Exercise:  Using ISHELL

Locales and Internationalization in UNIX

• Code Pages – Review
• Internationalization
• Locales
• Internationalized Applications
• What’s This Got To Do With UNIX?
• Setting Locale Values
• Shell Commands: mkcatdefs, gencat, runcat, dspcat, dspmsg, localedef, locale, iconv, tr
• Computer Exercise:  tr command

Day Three

More OMVS Features

• OMVS
• OMVS – The Parameters
• OMVS and SubCommand Mode
• Computer Exercise:  More Work with OMVS

Data Transfer – Part 2: UNIX Commands

• Shell Commands: cp
• Shell Commands: mv
• Shell Commands: tso
• Computer Exercise:  copying, Renaming, and Moving Files

Compressing and Uncompressing

• Compressing and Uncompressing Files
• Shell Commands: compress
• Shell Commands: uncompress
• Shell Commands: zcat

Introduction to The Web

• The Web – Basic Concepts
• Web Servers on z/OS
• Computer Exercise:  Displaying a Web Page from the Mainframe

Introduction to Markup Languages

• Overview: Markup Languages
• SGML
• HTML
• XML
• HTML – An Introduction
• Computer Exercise:  Writing Basic HTML

Managing Archive Files

• Archive Files
• Shell Commands: pax
• Shell Commands: tar
• Computer Exercise:  Unwinding an Archive

Accessing HFS Files and Programs from Batch and TSO Applications

• JCL and HFS files
• ALLOCATE and HFS files
• Programs and subroutines
• DLLs
• UNIX System Services
• C Run Time Library services
• Computer Exercise:  Accessing HFS files through non-UNIX applications

Submitting jobs from the shell

• Shell commands: submit
• Computer Exercise: Submitting a batch job from the shell

UNIX Directory List Support

• HFS file attributes
• The UDlist utility

telnet (Optional)

• telnet and rlogin
• The telnet interface
• Shell commands: stty, tabs, unexpand, expand
• Computer Exercise:  The telnet Experience

A Little UNIX Humor

Wrap Up: Where Do We Go From Here

• Further Studies
• Resources