This course is designed to teach you the basic skills required to write programs using the REXX language in z/OS. The course covers the TSO extensions to REXX and interaction with other environments such as the MVS console, running REXX in batch jobs, and compiling REXX. A total of 11 hands-on labs on an IBM Z server (via remote Skytap access) are part of this course.
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What You Will Learn
- Write programs using REXX
- Create user-defined internal and external functions and subroutines
- Use instructions and commands that manipulate the data stack
Syllabus
WEEK 1: Introduction
WEEK 2: Getting Started with REXX
WEEK 3: Programming
WEEK 4: Functions and Subroutines
WEEK 5: Debugging and error handling
WEEK 6: Executing Host Commands
WEEK 7: Compound variables and datastack
WEEK 8: Reading and writing data sets in REXX
WEEK 9: The Parse Instruction
WEEK 10: Using REXX: REXX compiler, REXX in batch, MVS console commands
WEEK 11: System REXX