U510 Introduction to z/OS UNIX

Introduction to z/OS UNIX - Topical Outline

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: 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

U510 / 3 Days

Materials version: V6.x

Course description
Course Objectives
z/OS UNIX curriculum
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