CA-Easytrieve Plus Fundamentals

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Duration: 3 days

Method: Instructor led, Hands-on workshops

Price: $1650.00

Course Code: MF1050

Audience

End-users, application programmers, business analysts, and others with a need to create reports using Easytrieve Plus.

Description

This course teaches students the basic techniques required to use CA-Easytrieve Plus, an information management and report generator tool.

A series of lab exercises will be used to reinforce the classroom education.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Define files to be processed.
Format a report with titles and footings.
Use relation logic to accept and reject records for reporting.
Define working storage fields.
Perform arithmetic calculations.
Move data between record fields and work areas.
Sort data.
Format numeric data for the report.
Define control breaks and subtotaling for reports.
Build and write output data files.
Perform table searching.
Use arrays in Easytrieve Plus processing.
Perform synchronized file processing.

Prerequisites

TSO/ISPF, or equivalent experience. Basic MVS JCL, or equivalent experience. Previous experience in designing and coding application programs is not required, but will enhance the results of this course.

Topics

I.Introduction to Easytrieve Plus
- Purpose
- Easytrieve Environments
- JCL Requirements
II.Basic Easytrieve Reporting
- Basic Statement Syntax
- Easytrieve Program Structure
- Environment Section
- Library Section
  - Defining Files
  - Defining Fields
- Activity Section
- Report Subactivity
III.Enhancing Easytrieve Reports
- REPORT Statement Parameters
- TITLE Statement Parameters
- LINE Statement Parameters
- HEADING Statement
- SEQUENCE Statement
- Generating Multiple Reports
- Report Routing
- Generating Label Reports
IV.Arithmetic and Conditional Processing
- Working Storage Fields
- Assignment Statement
- IF Statement
- CASE Statement
- DO WHILE / DO UNTIL Statements
- STOP Statement
- GOTO Statement
- DISPLAY Statement
- Defining Procedures
- PERFORM Statement
V.Totals, Control Reports and Summary Files
- Creating Report Totals
- SUM Statement
- CONTROL Statement
- Creating Control Reports
- Creating and Using Summary Files
VI.Virtual File Manager and Sorting
- Introduction to Virtual File Manager
- Designating VFM-Managed Files
- COPY Statement
- SORT Statement
VII.Programmer Controlled I/O
- Requesting Controlled I/O
- GET Statement
- STOP Statement
- Defining Output Files
- MOVE Statement
- PUT Statement
VIII.Tables and Array Processing
- Defining Instream Tables
- Defining External Tables
- SEARCH Statement
- Defining Arrays
- Accessing an Array
IX.Synchronized File Processing
- Overview
- Implementing Synchronized File Processing
- Identifying Duplicate Records in Files