About application programming on z/OS

Designing and developing applications for z/OS

• Application designers and programmers
• Designing an application for z/OS
• Application development life cycle: An overview
• Gathering requirements for the design
• Developing an application on the mainframe
• The EBCDIC character set
• Unicode on the mainframe
• Interfaces for z/OS application programmers
• Application development tools
• Conducting a debugging session
• Performing a system test
• Going into production on the mainframe

Programming languages on z/OS

• Programming languages on the mainframe
• Choosing a programming language for z/OS
• The Assembler language on z/OS
• More information about Assembler language
• COBOL on z/OS
• COBOL program format
• COBOL relationship between JCL and program files
• Running COBOL programs under UNIX
• Communicating with Java methods
• Creating a DLL or a DLL application
• Structuring OO applications
• More information about the COBOL language
• Targeting COBOL programs for certain environments
• HLL relationship between JCL and program files
• PL/I on z/OS
• PL/I program structure
• Preprocessors
• The SAX parser
• More information about the PL/I language
• Input and output
• Data transmission
• Data sets
• Data declarations
• PL/I interfaces to other products
• C/C++ on z/OS
• More information about the C++ language
• Java on z/OS
• IBM SDK products for z/OS
• The Java Native Interface (JNI)
• The CLIST language on z/OS
• Types of CLISTs
• Executing CLISTs
• Other uses for the CLIST language
• REXX on z/OS
• Compiling and executing REXX command lists
• More information about the REXX language
• Compiled versus interpreted languages
• What is z/OS Language Environment?
• How Language Environment is used
• A closer look at Language Environment
• Program management model in Language Environment
• How to run your program with Language Environment
• More information about the z/OS Language Environment

How programs are prepared to run on z/OS

• Source, object, and load modules
• How programs are compiled on z/OS
• What is a precompiler?
• Compiling with cataloged procedures
• COBOL compile procedure
• COBOL pre-processor and compile and link procedure
• COBOL compile and link procedure
• COBOL compile link and go procedure
• How object-oriented (OO) applications are compiled
• What is an object deck?
• What is an object library?
• How does program management work?
• How is a linkage editor used?
• How a load module is created
• Load modules for executable programs
• Batch loader
• Program management loader
• What is a load library?
• Compilation to execution
• How procedures are used