Programming concepts for mainframe, instruction formats, basic program structure, describing data, defining constants and storage areas, file accessing techniques, compares, branches, linkages, record processing, packed decimal, redefining storage, data structures, introduction to debugging, editing packed decimal data, immediate instructions, binary integer data, logical arithmetic, literals, loop control, table processing, multiple base registers, DSECTs, bit manipulation, shift instructions, string manipulation.
Audience
Programmers beginning their journey into Assembler language
Before taking this course, students should have a background in using text editor, experience submitting jobs and examining the output; introduction to data processing concepts; ideally some experience in a fourth generation language
