Control Language programming Workshop for IBM i (OL20G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

CL programming concepts

• Lab - Set up your environment (required)

Basic CL programming

• Lab - Write a basic CL program (required)
• Lab - Initial program (required)
• Lab - Menu-like program (required)
• Lab - Call/Transfer control (required)
• Lab - Calculator (required)

Program creation and debugging

• Lab - Debugging (required)

Intermediate CL programming

• Lab - Data area retrieval (recommended)
• Lab - External attributes CVAT, SST (recommended)

CL message programming (topic 1)

• Lab - Basic message handling (required)
• Lab - Send user message command (required)

CL message programming (topic 2)

• Lab - Monitor message (required)
• Lab - Message programming (required)
• Lab - Inquiry messages (recommended)

User-written tools

• Lab - User-written tool (optional)

Batch jobs

• Lab - SBMJOB and LDA (recommended)
• Lab - Data queues (recommended)

Commands

• Lab - Commands (recommended)