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TITLE: Understanding Access Methods and I/O in z/OS®

DATE: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. CT

DETAILS: Reading and writing files in z/OS® systems differs markedly from similar processes in other architectures. A combination of dataset structure, control blocks, and macros, called an Access Method, allows programs to read and write data on the record or block level, control buffering, provide sequential or direct access, and end-of-file processing.

In this month’s webinar, we’ll discuss the unique features of z/OS access methods (BSAM, QSAM, VSAM), control blocks (the DCB, JFCB, TIOT), and macros (GET/PUT, READ/WRITE) that are the basis for reading and writing all types of datasets in mainframe systems.

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Attending a Webinar:

The DTS Webinars use the GoToWebinar™ software from LogMeIn, Inc. After registration, DTS will email you a meeting ID. Shortly before the scheduled DTS Webinar, you will receive an email with a unique link.

You do not need to pre-install any software prior to joining the meeting. GoToWebinar uses a web interface in your browser for the video portion of the meeting. A phone number will be provided for the audio stream. Note: You will participate as a guest of DTS Software – there is no cost to you or your company except for telephone charges.

Recorded Webinars:

The webinars are typically recorded and uploaded to the DTS website a few days after the live presentation. The following table lists all the DTS webinars sorted by date. To access recorded webinars for specific products, visit the product pages and select the Resources tab.

 

Feb 21  2023 Introduction to Virtual Tape and Tape Management ZCC/DCC
ACC
139
MB
60 Minutes
Jan 24  2023 Understanding Your ACS Routines ACC
SMS
130
MB
66 Minutes
Nov 29  2022 ISMF for Non-Storage Administrators ACC
MON
148
MB
65 Minutes
Oct 25  2022 SLIP, ZAP, Terse, XMIT: What’s It All About? ACC
SRS
125
MB
58 Minutes
Sep 27  2022 SYS1.PARMLIB: What is it? What’s important? Why? ACC
SMS
110
MB
59 Minutes
Aug 30  2022 How to Back Up and Restore a Dataset in z/OS® ACC
SMS
107
MB
57 Minutes
Jul 26  2022 An Introduction to JCL SCC
JCL QA
87
MB
60 Minutes
Jun 21  2022 How to Read a z/OS® Assembler Listing SRS 91
MB
63 Minutes
May 24  2022 Getting What You Need – With REXX Execs SRS
ACC
138
MB
63 Minutes
Apr 26  2022 Introduction to z/OS® Tape Management Systems SRS, ACC
SMS
96.5
MB
65 Minutes
Mar 15  2022 Understanding IDCAMS SRS
SMS
115
MB
67 Minutes
Feb 15  2022 An Introduction to z/OS® Sort SRS, ACC
SMS, EXT
95
MB
63 Minutes
Jan 25  2022 An Introduction to z/OS® Utilities SRS, ACC
SMS, EXT
113
MB
66 Minutes
Nov 30  2021 We’ve Got a Problem: An Introduction to z/OS® Dumps and Debugging Tools ACC
SMS
151
MB
62 Minutes
Oct 26  2021 Understanding z/OS® Disk Metadata – Catalogs, VTOCs, VVDSs, Indexes, and More ACC 121
MB
65 Minutes
Sep 21  2021 Secure Data for Everyone – Pervasive Encryption and z/OS® Storage Management SMS
ACC
89.3
MB
60 Minutes
Aug 24  2021 PDS, PDSE, GDG, HFS, USS and Other Strange z/OS® Animals SMS 112
MB
63 Minutes
Jul 14  2021 Aggregation without Aggravation: When Putting More Log Data in Your SIEM is a Good Thing (A joint presentation with TechChannel, formerly IBM Systems Magazine)  SMS 104
MB
62 Minutes
Jun 29  2021 Mysteries of the Storage Group – (part 4 of our series on “The Mysteries of SMS”) SMS
JCL
108
MB
61 Minutes
May 25  2021 Mysteries of the Management Class and the Data Set Life Cycle – (part 3 of our series on “The Mysteries of SMS”) SMS
JCL
114
MB
61 Minutes
Apr 20  2021 Mysteries of the Storage Class – (part 2 of our series on “The Mysteries of SMS”) SMS
JCL
117
MB
66 Minutes
Mar 23 2021 Mysteries of the Data Class (and more) – (part 1 of our series on “The Mysteries of SMS”) SMS
JCL
101
MB
60 Minutes
Feb 23 2021 Introduction to ISMF Test SMS 104.59
MB
61 Minutes
Jan 26 2021 Exclusive Customer Webinar **Customer-only event — login credentials required** SMS 94.86
MB
60 Minutes
Dec 08 2020 What’s a Manual Robot? Understanding System-Managed Tape SMS 101.00 MB 62 Minutes
Nov 10 2020 Don’t Overdraft that Account! – Controlling Disk Space Use with DLIMIT DLM 79.00 MB 47 Minutes
Oct 06 2020 Using REXX with DFSMSrmm General SMS 85.96 MB 51 Minutes
Sep 15 2020

An Introduction to Traditional DASD Backup and Recovery with DFSMShsm and FDRABR

General
SMS
89.81 MB 60 Minutes
Aug 04 2020

The z/OS FTP Server and its Client and Server Exits

EXT 104.00 MB 62 Minutes
July 07 2020

Manage Your WTOs Traffic – Centrally, Efficiently, and Reliably with Easy-Exit

EXT 72.96 MB 43 Minutes
June 09 2020

Take Control of Your SMS Environment – with SMS/Debug and Audit

SMS 59.00 MB 40 Minutes
May 05 2020

Supercharge Your I/O – Performance Buffering with Allocation Control Center

ACC 86.99 MB 49 Minutes
Jan 14 2020

‘Tis the Season for Space Abends – Preventing DASD problems with SRS

SRS 96.32 MB 57 Minutes
Oct 29 2019

Scaring Up More DASD Space with DLIMIT

DLM 77.83 MB 48 Minutes
Aug 27 2019

Virtual Tape Migration Experience using ZCC and the Optica zVT

ZCC 86.21 MB 66 Minutes
Jul 16 2019

No Assembler Required! – Leveraging DFSMShsm, FTP, RACF, and more with EASY/Exit

EXT 55.44 MB 48 Minutes
Jun 11 2019

Avoiding Downtime with ACC/SRS and Standards Enforcement

ACC
SRS
66.85 MB 47 Minutes
May 07 2019

How Accurate Is Your DFSMS Environment? Introducing SMSAUDIT New Function for SMS/Debug

SMS 64.31 MB 51 Minutes
Oct 26 2017

Reliable, Secure FTP Transfers are Possible – Let us tell you how

EXT 65.81 MB 59 Minutes
Jun 15 2017

ISMF Functions for Non-Storage-Administrators

Monitor
SMS
123.59 MB 57 Minutes
Feb 09 2017

Enhance your TSO Logon and Password Security

EXT 55.11 MB 50 Minutes
Jun 16 2016

Exit Routines to Improve System Functions – No Assembler Required

EXT 76.89 MB 53 Minutes
Mar 17 2016

Introducing a New  Virtual Tape Interface – ZCC

ZCC 102.38 MB 57 Minutes
Dec 03 2015 Tis the Season to have some fun with DFSMS – Testing and Tracing ACS SMS 80.21 MB 49 Minutes
Apr 23 2015 DFSMS-ACS coding can still be confusing to say the least!! SMS 142.69 MB 63 Minutes
Feb 10 2015

Take It to the Limit – With Space Recovery System

SRS 122.78 MB 54 Minutes
Dec 18 2014

Let’s talk about z_OS FTP and IBM’s DFSMSrmm

EXT 70.89 MB 46 Minutes
Oct 28 2014

What’s going on in the Virtual Tape Environment?

Monitor 75.52 MB 54 Minutes
Jul 29 2014 Everybody needs a little help sometimes with DFSMS and ACS! ACC
SMS
88.40 MB 52 Minutes
Jun 26 2014

Custom Tailor z_OS for Mission-Critical Applications via Exit Routines

EXT 63.28 MB 43 Minutes
May 20 2014 Understanding How to Control, Manage, and Report on the EMC DLm DCC 93.82 MB 58 Minutes
Apr 08 2014

I Didn’t Know You Could Do That with DIF!

ACC 100.53 MB 63 Minutes
Feb 25 2014

Extended Address Volumes(EAV) – Rather manage fewer large volumes than many small volumes? You Betcha!

ACC
Monitor
SRS
93.56 MB 64 Minutes
Jan 23 2014

In a Perfect World – Realtime DASD Space Account Management

DLimit 75.32 MB 51 Minutes
Dec 17 2013 Owning and Understanding Your ACS Routines SMS 86.74 MB 60 Minutes
Nov 07 2013

Monitor and Reporting for IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape

Monitor 64.42 MB 42 Minutes
Sep 26 2013 Monitor z_OS Storage via Graphical User Interface_ Live Demo Explorer 118.41 MB 75 Minutes
Aug 22 2013

Things Storage Managers need to Monitor – DASD, Tapes, Dlm, Etc

Monitor 78.82 MB 47 Minutes
May 23 2013

Space Recovery Software in the Modern Storage Environment

SRS 119.47 MB 58 Minutes
Apr 23 2013 Virtual Tape Migration to DLm – User Experience Overview DCC 89.06 MB 54 Minutes
Mar 28 2013 Quality Assurance and Debugging DFSMS ACS Routines – Simplified SMS 95.40 MB 52 Minutes
Feb 26 2013

Storage Management Software Products – What are They? Do I Need Them? What Can I Do with Them? (Part 2)

ACC
EXT
Monitor
SRS
DLimit
107.04 MB 55 Minutes
Jan 29 2013

Storage Management Software Products – What are They? Do I Need Them? What Can I Do with Them? (Part 1)

ACC
SRS
118.89 MB 1 Hour
Dec 13 2012

Eliminate Assembler Coding while Meeting Your Installation’s Needs with Easy/Exit

EXT 79.79 MB 56 Minutes
Oct 25 2012

An Advanced Dashboard Monitor for Virtual Tape Systems

DCC
Monitor
52.44 MB 35 Minutes
Jul 24 2012

Monitor and the New Reporting feature for IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape

Monitor 73.95 MB 50 Minutes
Jun 07 2012

Preventing Production Problems Before They Occur with DTS Products

ACC
EXT
Monitor
94.90 MB 55 Minutes
Mar 27 2012

Learn About Using an SMS-Managed Manual Tape Library

ACC
DCC
ZCC
76.21 MB 51 Minutes
Feb 28 2012 DTS Software’s New Product – JCL-QA JCL-QA 83.68 MB 52 Minutes
Jan 26 2012

Tape Device Migration Strategies

DCC 70.60 MB 53 Minutes
Dec 01 2011

Management and Migrating Tape Volumes on the DLm with DCC

DCC 113.81 MB 67 Minutes
Oct 25 2011 Managing Your z_OS Storage Environment More Efficiently Multiple
Products
99.80 MB 56 Minutes
Sep 20 2011

Migrating Tape Volumes to the DLm_MDL with DCC

DCC 81.78 MB 50 Minutes
Aug 23 2011 DASD Space Error Elimination – Best Practices and New Features of SRS SRS 104.02 MB 62 Minutes
Jul 21 2011

Data Deduplication – What is it and what can it do for me

DCC 77.93 MB 61 Minutes
May 26 2011

Managing and Monitoring the DLm-MDL from zOS

DCC 81.06 MB 47 Minutes
Apr 26 2011

SMS Managed Manual Tape – What is it and how does it compare to DLMALLOC

DCC 119.30 MB 60 Minutes
Mar 24 2011 Controlling Tape-on-Disk with DCC DCC 97.07 MB 55 Minutes