Training offering

Assembler Language Coding Workshop

Overview

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.

Public

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.

Prerequisits

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.

Objective

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.  

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course.  Go to the EViTA site to start this process: http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.

Topics

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