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Homework answers / question archive / INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOGGING IN AND EDITING ON AN IBM SYSTEM Z for BCIS 3630 MF PROBLEM ONE - PART A - MAINFRAME LOGIN LOGIN PROCESS FOR BCIS 3630 STUDENTS SETTING UP YOUR IBM SYSTEM Z ‘TSO’ ACCESS USING ‘VISTA’ TN 3270 SOFTWARE [‘VISTA’ is the name of the TN3270 software and has nothing to do with MS Windows] 1
INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOGGING IN AND EDITING ON AN IBM SYSTEM Z for BCIS 3630
MF PROBLEM ONE - PART A - MAINFRAME LOGIN
LOGIN PROCESS FOR BCIS 3630 STUDENTS
SETTING UP YOUR IBM SYSTEM Z ‘TSO’ ACCESS USING ‘VISTA’ TN 3270 SOFTWARE
[‘VISTA’ is the name of the TN3270 software and has nothing to do with MS Windows]
1. Download TN3270 software, from the 3630 website
2. Install the software by going to your DESKTOP and double-clicking the tn3270.exe file. You will get a screen SIMILIAR to the following. YOU MUST REMEMBER WHERE THESE FILES ARE LOCATED ON YOUR COMPUTER.
3. Notice the icons and names listed. Copy "Vista TN 3270 Standard Session” to your desktop. You will use it LATER.
It is the icon that you will use the rest of the semester to automatically connect to the SYSTEM Z TN 3270 system.
It can ONLY be used after you have first successfully established a host connection.
4. Run [double click] the icon/file named "Vista TN 3270" to get the Connect Window to appear so you can type in needed information. IF you get a WELCOME screen, please close it leaving the Vista TN3270 Session screen
FYI - EXAMPLE GRAPHIC ONLY
5. Change the IP Port to : 623,
Terminal model to: Mod4,
Host IP Name to: 192.86.32.88
CHECK YOUR ENTRIES – THEN Hit the Connect button
6. If you get a black screen, DO NOT TYPE ANYTHING on it.
7. Click the Help menu - option and select ‘Enter Registration Code’. Then TYPE the name and code EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS:
Be CERTAIN to type it, do not cut and paste
Name is Marist College Student License
Code is 844E6D2164.
Click ‘OK’. and then close all screens
IF YOU INSTALL IT CORRECTLY IT WILL NEVER EXPIRE
LOGGING ONTO THE TSO SYSTEM TO ACCESS Z/OS
1. Go to your desktop and double click the "Vista TN 3270 Standard Session” icon [the one that you copied to your desktop in step 3 above.]
You should now have a screen that is SIMILAR to the following:
2. With the cursor positioned at the bottom of the screen, type: L TSO
and then hit the ENTER key.
[If you get ‘cannot connect’ it means the SYS Z is down for maintenance].
Generally on Sunday from 9 to 5.
The next screen begins your logon process:
When you receive the USERID from me, enter the USERID which begins with UNTM### and hit ENTER. [example: UNTM060]
[Note that the LAST 3 POSITIONS of the Userid are numbers].
4. You will next get a screen that looks SIMILAR to this:
The cursor is positioned in the password field.
ENTER YOUR INITIAL PASSWORD [ initial PW = unt ]
Make up a new password of EIGHT [8] or less characters
[I suggest something like ibm#### or unt#### where #### is your logon set of numbers.]
If you logon as UNTM027 then your password might be UNTM027 etc.
DO NOT FORGET YOUR PASSWORD OR YOU WILL BE LOCKED OUT OF THE SYSTEM and IT COULD TAKE 24 HOURS TO RESET IT.
The following rules apply to 3270 passwords:
5. You will now see a screen similar to this:
Hit the ENTER key, to get the next screen..
[ You may have to hit the ENTER key 5 or 6 times]
6. Now you are in TSO and should have a screen that looks like:
[Note: if you hit Enter again you will clear the license box if it appears on your screen]
END OF PART A - LOGIN
PROBLEM ONE - PART B - BASIC EDITING
[BE VERY CAREFUL AS YOU WORK THRU THIS STEP]
Logon to your account and open ISPF.
The default setting in ISPF is for the command line to be at the bottom of the screen. Most systems programmers, though, prefer to have the command line at the top of the screen. Let's quickly change this so you'll look like an old pro. On the command line, type 0 and press Enter.
This takes you to the ISPF Settings menu.
Go to the field beside the phrase ‘Command line at bottom’. Delete the "/" using the delete key (the backspace key will bring you back a space but will not delete characters). Press Enter. The command line jumps to the top of the screen.
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To get back to the ISPF Primary Option Menu, press F3. F3 almost always takes you one screen back If you accidentally hit F3 too many times, you'll be taken all the way back to the TSO READY prompt - to get back to the ISPF Primary Option Menu from here, type ISPF and press Enter.
Log off of the system Z, by pressing F3 until you arrive at the TSO READY prompt. Type LOGOFF and press Enter:
IF you have done more extensive work during your session, you will see this Specify Disposition of Log Data Set screen when you attempt to F3 past the ISPF Primary Option Menu:
Whenever you encounter this screen, select option 2: "Delete data set without printing," and press Enter. You will then be taken to the TSO READY prompt, and the system informs you that a log that you don't need has been deleted. Type LOGOFF and press Enter to end your session.
Should you not follow this logoff procedure, you will get a LOGON REJECTED error when you try to log back in:
If this happens to you, enter LOGON on this screen, then supply your user ID at the next prompt.
Once you get to this screen:
enter your password (but don't press Enter yet).
Now Tab down until the cursor is beside -Reconnect, and put an S there.
press Enter.
When you get the ‘LOGON RECONNECT SUCCESSFUL’ prompt:,
press enter
If you are not already there, log back in to ISPF.
select option 3 (Utilities), and press Enter.
On the next screen:
select option 4 (Dslist - short for DATA SET list) and press Enter.
Several data sets have already been created for your z/OS user ID. Let's go take a look at them. On the line Dsname Level, type your user ID: - press enter
You'll be presented with a list of all of the system-generated data sets that have been created for you:
NOTE: A partitioned data set (PDS) is the mainframe equivalent of a folder. A partitioned data set (PDS) set contains members, which you are probably used to calling files when using windows.
Let's have a look at a member that contains a copy of a program. Tab down until your cursor is beside the ‘UNTM0##.JCL’ line, then type a B (for browse): and press Enter.
You'll see a list of all of the members in the data set. You then browse members by entering a B on the field next to them. Try this on the member named COUNT
(NOTE: if you were going to Edit a member instead of just Browse, you'd enter it using E instead — but we're not doing that just yet):
The COUNT member contains a copy of some REXX code. You don't need to do anything here now, but you've just learned how to navigate into data sets and members
Now press F3 until you're back at the ISPF Primary Option menu. Let's create a new member for you to check out.
Right now, most of your data sets (folders) contain data that you'll need later in the contest. But you also need to know how to create your own data.
A member (file) can be anything you'd like it to be - flat text, executables, program output - just like the files on your home computer. Let's create a simple flat text member.
F3 all the way back to the ISPF Primary Option Menu. Select option 2 (Edit). Let's name the new member after the person who's going to create it - that would be your last name [1st 8 characters only]
Data sets are named with 1-8 character identifiers separated by periods, like this: UNTM0##.COMPETE.PARTONE. When you're creating or editing new members, the system automatically assumes that you want the first identifier to be your user ID.
Tab down until your cursor is on the Name field. The data set we're going to populate is your UNTM0##.COMPETE.PARTONE data set. Enter COMPETE.PARTONE as the data set name, then type your new member name in parentheses directly following the data set name.
Your new member name must be the first eight letters [or less] of your last name.
Example - COMPETE.PARTONE(HAL)
[NOTE: it is COMPETE not COMPLETE]
SEE NEXT PAGE:
[NOTE: In our example, we use the name HAL for demonstration purposes].
Press Enter to continue.
The system creates a new member named after you in the data set UNTM0##.COMPETE.PARTONE and automatically opens it in an editor session.
You are now in the ISPF editor, looking at a blank member:
Tab your cursor to the first line of blank space
1. Two lines under the first "-" by Warning [if Warning is there]
Or
2. Under the first * on the left of the screen [if Warning is not there]
Now type in three lines worth of whatever you'd like to say, using the tab key to move to the second line when you're done with the first, and so on. When you are finished entering the text, press Enter.
(If at any point you mess up and would like a clean slate, enter CAN (short for cancel) on the command line. Your work will not be saved, and you will return to the previous screen. Press Enter on that screen, and you will have a fresh data set member again. You can also enter HELP at any time on the command line for more information about the ISPF editor.)
Your screen should now have three lines of text: [WHATEVER 3 LINES YOU JUST TYPED] When you are finished entering the text, press Enter
The ISPF editor has made the member exactly three lines long and chopped off the excess blank lines. To save your work, type SAVE on the command line and press Enter.
Go to your UNTM0##.COMPETE.PARTONE folder and look at the file you just created. It will be your last name [8 characters or less]
END OF PART B - BASIC EDITING
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