AUDIENCE:   This course is suitable for application programmers, application support personnel, system support personnel and operations support personnel who need to be familiar with VSAM and use the VSAM utility program IDCAMS. PREREQUISITES:   Delegates are expected to have an understanding of the z/OS operating system, JCL and TSO/ISPF. DURATION:   3 Days. OBJECTIVES:   This course is design to provide the delegates with the skills necessary to understand VSAM concepts and code IDCAMS job steps and interpret the output. COURSE CONTENT:   Introduction to VSAM An overview of VSAM Data organisation Data set organisations VSAM organisations VSAM and the Catalog The VSAM Utility program - IDCAMS VSAM Building Blocks VSAM Data set structures Control Interval Format Control Area Format VSAM Clusters VSAM processing Entry Sequenced Data sets Key Sequenced Data sets Relative Record Data sets Linear Data sets Spanned and non-spanned records IDCAMS Syntax IDCAMS JCL Requirements IDCAMS Command Syntax Conditional execution MVS Catalogs Catalog Structure Catalog Information Catalog Alias Mechanism AMS Commands DEFINE CLUSTER format and parameters LISTCAT format and group information Other commands ALTER, DELETE, PRINT and REPRO Performance, security and integrity related parameters Alternate Indexes AIX processing DEFINE AIX DEFINE PATH BLDINDEX HW/08