
Course Description

5 to 6 hours
Operations and programming personnel requiring an introduction to CLISTS
Knowledge of the MVS operating system and TSO/ISPF
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
• Identify the benefits and facilities of CLISTS
• Recognize commands and statements to use CLISTS effectively
How to Create CLISTS
How to Invoke CLISTS - Implicit/ Explicit
Symbolic Variables
The Proc Statement
Symbolic Substitution
Concatenation
Comments
The Write Statements
The Set Statements
CLISTS Built-In Functions
The Control Statement, Procedures
Exit Routines - Error/ Attention Exits
Passing Control Options
Passing Variables - Global Variables and Parameters
The WRITENR Statement
The READ Statement
The SYSDVAL Statement
The READVAL Statement
The TERMIN Statement
The ALLOCATE Statement
The OPENFILE Statement
The GETFILE Statement
The PUTFILE Statement
The CLOSFILE Statement
The FREE Statement