Wednesday, July 8, 2009

TIME SHARING OPTION

TSO stands for TIME SHARING OPTION as the word itself refers sharing it allows users to share time and resources. It is an optional feature of MVS that provides time sharing capabilities. So how to access TSO? After loading software connect t o the terminal enter LOGON command this command looks like
  • LOGON USER-ID/PASSWORD

Its better that your user-id look like USER-ID.NAME.TYPE

  • USER-ID is the TSO user identification number assigned to each use.
  • NAME is the name that you create to identify the dataset.
  • TYPE is one of the values used to identify the type of data stored in the data set.

If you want to logoff from the session then type the command LOGOFF.

In TSO you need to create and modify datasets. Here datasets are two types

  • PS - Physical Sequential
  • PDS – Partitioned Data Set

I will tell what are these two

  • Physical Sequential Data Set -It is plain and contain does not contain any directories
  • Partitioned Data Set - It is also like Indexed because it contains directories and data set as members

For better understanding purpose:

Just think or imagine PS to DOS Modifier because in that we can create only one file. PDS to DOS directory because in directory we can create n number of files in datasets module I will explain more about PS and PDS.If you can able to understand the difference between these two it is easy to create datasets.

SOME FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE UNDER TSO

  • DATASET MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS

  • DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATE DATASET

  • LIST, PRINT, COPY DATA SETS

  • DELETE, RENAME DATASETS

  • LIST CATALOG ENTRIES

  • LIST VTOC ENTRIES

  • VTOC - VOLUME TABLE OF CONTENT

  • LIST VSAM AMS COMMANDS

  • AMS – ACCESS METHOD SERVICES

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FUNCTIONS

  • CREATE AND EDIT PROGRAM LIBRARIES

  • COMPILE A SOURCE PROGRAM

  • LINK-EDIT A COMPILE PROGRAM

  • TEST A LINK-EDITED PROGRAM

BATCH JOB FUNCTIONS

  • SUBMIT A JOB
  • MONITOR THE PROGRESS AND VIEW OUTPUT OF BACKGROUND JOB
  • IF NECESSASRY CANCEL SUBMITTED JOBS

OTHER TSO FUNCTIONS

  • HELP FACILITY
  • CLIST
  • REXX
Here is your TSO session looks like Here i am giving you an brief idea how it looks like to make
you understand very easily
  1. LOGON TSO USER ID & PASSWORD


USERID

PASSWORD


PRESS ENTER

Now 2nd screen

2.ISPF PRIMARY OPEN MODE

(Enter command or any of the down options like 3 or 2…)

· 0. SETTINGS - TERMINAL AND USER PARAMETES

· 1. VIEW - DISPLAY SOURCE DATA & LISTING

· 2. EDIT - CREATE OR CHANGE SOURCE DATA

· 3. UTILITIES - PERFORM UTILITY FUNCTIONS

· 4. FOREGROUND - INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE

PROCESSING

· 5. BATCH - SUBMIT JOB FOR LANGUAGE

PROCESSINNG

· 6. COMMAND - ENTER TSO COMMAND OR CL LIST

· 7. DIALOGTEST - PERFORM DIALOUGE TESTING

· 8. LM UTILITIES- PERFORM LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR

UTILITY FUNCTIONS

· 9. IBM PRODUCTS – ADDITIONAL IBM PROGRAM

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

· 10. SCLM - SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION AND

LIBRARY MANAGER

· 11. WORKPLACE - ISPF

· 12. MORE

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F1-HELP F2 – SPLIT F3 - SAVE & EXIT F4 – RETURN

F5- FIND F6 – CHANGE F7 – PAGEUP F8 – PAGE DOWN

F9 -SWAP F10 – LEFT F11 - RIGHT F12 - CANCEL

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