Course Content
This classroom hands-on lab course provides an introduction to the mainframe Assembler language. The course is designed to develop the skills appropriate to write and/or maintain programs and routines written in S/370 or S/390 Assembler Language. Emphasis is placed on enhancing skills in problem resolution through program check interruption analysis and dump reading.
Who should attend
This intermediate course is for application programmers and/or beginning system programmers who code, maintain and/or debug application support programs or subroutines written in S/370 or S/390 Assembler Language.
Prerequisites
This classroom hands-on lab course provides an introduction to the mainframe Assembler language. The course is designed to develop the skills appropriate to write and/or maintain programs and routines written in S/370 or S/390 Assembler Language. Emphasis is placed on enhancing skills in problem resolution through program check interruption analysis and dump reading.
Course Objectives
This classroom hands-on lab course provides an introduction to the mainframe Assembler language. The course is designed to develop the skills appropriate to write and/or maintain programs and routines written in S/370 or S/390 Assembler Language. Emphasis is placed on enhancing skills in problem resolution through program check interruption analysis and dump reading.
Outline: Assembler Language Coding Workshop (ES34G)
Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1 - Numbering systems
- Unit 2 - Mainframe architecture
- Unit 3 - Assembler syntax
- Overview of instructions: LA, LR, LTR, MVC, DS, DC
- Exercise 1 - 80/80 listing
- Exercise 1A - 80/80 listing
Day 2
- Exercise 1 review
- Unit 4 - Data definition statements
- Unit 5 - Fixed-point binary instructions
- Exercise 2 - Binary data
Day 3
- Exercise 2 review
- Unit 6 - Addressing, comparing, and branching
- Unit 7 - Data movement instructions
- Exercise 3 - Text handling
Day 4
- Exercise 3 review
- Unit 8 - Assembler pseudo instructions
- Unit 9 - Reading dumps
- Unit 10 - Packed decimal processing
- Exercise 4 - Packed data/editing
Day 5
- Exercise 4 review
- Unit 11 - Miscellaneous instructions
- Course wrap-up