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IBM Assembler Advanced courses outline

Floating point Operations

1. Introduction
2. Normalization
3. Declaration of floating point numbers
4. Floating point registers
5. Floating point arrays
6. Floating point arithmetic (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division)

File Handling - VSAM datasets

1. Macros used with VSAM file handling
2. OPEN, ERASE, PUT, GET, ACB, RPL, POINT, EXLST, GENCB, MODCB, SHOWCB, TESTCB
3. Handling of KSDS, ESDS and RRDS datasets
4. Sample programs for Read Sequential, Random Access, UPDATE and DELETE of records in VSAM datasets

System macros

1. Save macro
2. Return macro

Macros

1. Conditional assembly
2. Set symbol - GBL, LCL, SET
3. Global and local declarations
4. Directives AGO, AIF and ANOP
5. Symbolic parameters, Sequence symbols .A, .B

Assembler JCL’s cataloged procedures for Compile, link and running of assembler program

Assembler with DB2 and CICS calls

1. Changes required in the assembler programs to incorporate SQL and CICS commands
2. COBOL calling assembler programs
3. Passing parameters through JCL to assembler programs

Advanced commands

1. ED command
2. Translate command
3. Execute command
4. SRP, MVO, MVZ, MVN
5. DSECT, ORG

Testing and Debugging assembler programs