IBM ALCS Education

Class Title: ALCS System Programming Class

Overview: This classroom course is designed to provide the ALCS system programmer with the knowledge to install, customize and maintain an ALCS system.

Audience: Experienced data processing professionals who are responsible for implementing and supporting ALCS systems should attend this course.

Topics: This course will provide the students with the essential information required for system programming support of an ALCS system. The topics covered include:

• ALCS environment (MVS, VTAM, etc.)
• ALCS monitor storage
• Dispatcher Communications
• Installation
• Generation
• Customization
• Operation
• Maintenance
• Callable services for user exits
• Monitor user exits
• ECB controlled user exits

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this course, using all available documentation, the student should be able to:

• Describe monitor storage usage
• Describe the entry dispatcher
• Describe the inter-relationship between the monitor units of work
• Describe how ALCS interfaces with OS/390
• Understand the multi-processing concepts used by ALCS
• Install, generate and maintain ALCS
• Write Recoup descriptors
• Code monitor user exits
• Code ECB controlled user exits

Prerequisites: Course participants require a good knowledge of IBM System/390 architecture, assembler language, OS/390 and VTAM concepts. They should be experienced ALCS system programmers or should have attended the ALCS Concepts & Applications Class.