MVS Utilities - A Practitioner Series Course Offering Copyright © 2001 Mentor Services Corp - 200 White Plains Road - Tarrytown - NY 10591.

Introduction: There are several IBM utilities that are supplied with the MVS operating system. Of these, there are a few essential utilities that are needed to perform critical system functions in batch. These utilities are divided into three groups. The first, called the system utilities, contains a program called IEHLIST, whose function is to provide listings of such essential data structures as the Volume Table of Contents (VTOC) and the Partitioned Data Set (PDS) directory. The second set, called the data set utilities, contains three utilities used to create, print and copy sequential and partitioned data sets. Finally, the Sort/Merge utility is provided to produce sorted copies of data sets and to merge data sets according to sequences designated by data contained within their records. This course covers the JCL and control statements required to make use of the utility programs mentioned above. Audience: Programmers or end-users who have a need to manipulate sequential or partitioned data sets using batch jobs. Objectives:  On completion of this course, the student should be able to: identify print listings of VTOCs and PDS directories compress or make a copy of a PDS create or print a sequential data set or PDS member merge two data sets sort a sequential data set using one or more sequencing fields Prerequisites: The student must have a working knowledge of JCL. This requirement can be met by attending the JCL for End-Users course. Duration: This course is 2 days long.