
Course Description (By Curriculum)

3 to 4 hours
Programmers, system programmers and operators, and other personnel writing and updating Control Language (CL) programs
Completion of the Introduction to CL Programming course or equivalent experience
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
• Identify built in functions (%SUBSTRING, %SWITCH, etc.)
• Identify how to retrieve job and system values into a CL program
• Define Program Message Queues
• Recognize message types
• Identify how to monitor for system messages sent to your CL program
• Identify how to send various message types through the system by using CL programs
Retrieving Job Values
Retrieving System Values
Built-in Functions - %Binary
Program Message Queues
Message Types
MONMSG Command
Global and Command Monitors
Sending Messages
Commands for Sending Messages
Sending Messages to Users
Sending Messages Between Programs