M&IS 34036
Class meeting: BSA
205, Monday, 6:15 to 8:45 p.m.
Instructor: Douglas Druckenmiller
Office: A409
Office hours: 11:00 am – 1:30 pm MW
Phone: 330-672-1160
Email: ddrucken@kent.edu
Website: http://orion.kent.edu
a. Trombetta, Michael and Finkelstein, Sue Carolyn. MVS JCL
& Utilities, A Comprehensive Treatment. Reading, Massachusetts:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Second Edition (or current edition). (ISBN
0-201-08318-3). While an old book, it is the only one around. You will learn
JCL from this book. Since we only use it for a short while, you may wish
to share a book with another student.
b. On-line sources you may find useful for team assignments. Do not limit your search to these but go out and find anything useful that you can.
· www.esj.com Enterprise Systems Journal . Click on Library, then go both to 2000-98 and the Search option.
· http://www.nwfusion.com Network. Select White Papers, Reviews, Columnists, Features, This Week, News, The Edge
· www.cisco.com Useful for info on their products only
· www.3com.com Their products, plus News
· www.network.com From StorageTek
· www.ibm.com Select News and use Search option
· http://www.internetwk.com Internet Week. Check the several links under Resources and also under Tech Web Sites.
· http://news.cnet.com Select Enterprise Computing and One Week's News
· http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news Select Internet, News, Reviews, IT in the Enterprise, links to IT Week under which see IT Week sections
· http://www.information week.com Information Week. A very good source. You might be able to do most of your searches within their site. Also select Newsflash, Highlights, Back Issues, News, Tools.
· www.altavista.com is one of the search engines that is particularly good for sources, for example, enter the search topic as "mainframes" and see how many useful entries you get.
(c) Journals in the library, bound volumes on second floor shelved alphabetically and current issues in first floor reading room. None of these are trade magazines and all of them are quite readable.
· IEEE Network
· IBM Systems Journal
· Information Systems Management
· Data Communications
· Database
· Data Base for Advances in Information Systems
· Computer
(d) To be announced -- source materials may be supplied by our AllState guest lecturers.
8. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: In accordance with University policy, if you have a documented
disability and require accommodations to obtain equal access in this
course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester or when
given an assignment for which an accommodation is required. Students with
disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of Student
Disability Services (SDS) in the Michael Schwartz Student Service Center (181
MSC) (672-3391).
9. ENROLLMENT: It is the student's responsibility to ensure proper enrollment in
classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule during the
first two weeks of the semester to ensure proper enrollment. Should you
determine an error in your class schedule, you have two weeks from the
beginning of the semester to correct it with your advising office. If
registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend
and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are
advised that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester.
10. Last day to drop an individual class. November 2 is the last date to drop an
individual class without special permission. If you stop attending a class
without officially dropping, the probable result will be a grade of F.
11. CONDITIONS CONCERNING TESTS AND PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS:
·
Except for documented and acceptable excuses,
such as illness certified by a physician, there are no make-ups for tests. If
you miss it, you miss those points for the course. With appropriate
documentation, a make-up assignment of the instructor's choice will be
provided. For one unexcused missed test, or for a low grade, you may
substitute your grade on the optional final exam.
· Programming assignments -- Assignments are due to the high speed printer in the library on the date shown in the course schedule. Instructions are contained in the programming assignments on submitting your program to the printer.
· Grace period and late penalties. There will be a one week grace period during which I will accept late programming assignments, with a 10% penalty for each day late. After the grace period, assignments will be critiqued and corrections given for those assignments already submitted, so no further late assignments can be accepted for grading.
· Deal with problems early -- if you have a problem, contact me immediately at my office phone or e-mail address and/or talk to the people at the university computer systems help desk.
· Cheating -- any form of copying another student's work (except for team presentations, of course) will result in an immediate failing grade for that assignment, for all students involved.
12.
GRADE WEIGHTS:
ISPF Programming Assignment |
5% |
JCL Programming Assignment #1 |
10% |
JCL Programming Assignment # 2 |
10% |
3 Tests @ 15 points each |
45% |
First Team Presentation |
10% |
Final Team Presentation |
20% |
Optional Final Exam |
Substitute for low grade or missed exam |
13. Academic complaints. University regulations, some of which are reprinted in your copy of the KSU telephone directory, govern many aspects of our classes, including academic complaints. Since as your instructor I also happen to be the chairman of my department, if you have a complaint of unfair treatment in this class with respect to your grade, your first obligation is to talk with your instructor, that is, me. If we cannot resolve the issue, then I will get the Dean's office to have a chairperson of another department function as the chair to whom you can take your complaint for a possible grievance hearing.
14. Schedule. The following schedule is preliminary and may
change due to unforeseen circumstances.
An updated copy will be kept on the course website.
Proposed
Class schedule
|
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignment |
1 |
8/26 |
Intro to course. Intro to ISPF, JCL and Unix. Create data set in MVS JCL program to input data stream, Unix script |
T & F, Chs. 1 & 2 |
Form Teams LAB -- Create data set in MVS JCL program to input data stream |
|
9/2 |
Labor day vacation |
|
No class |
2 |
9/9 |
Creating sequential disk data sets |
T & F, ch. 3 |
LAB ISPF assignment Creating sequential disk data sets |
3 |
9/16 |
Processing sequential data sets |
T & F, ch. 4 to page 110 |
LAB Processing sequential data sets |
4 |
9/23 |
Working with Libraries |
T & F, ch.5 thru page 154. |
LAB Working with Libraries |
5 |
9/30 |
EXAM 1 |
|
LAB as needed EXAM 1 |
6 |
10/7 |
Large systems & networks Large systems & database administration |
|
|
7 |
10/14 |
Hardware ESM |
|
JCL Assignment #1 |
8 |
10/21 |
Tour of AllState Computing Systems |
|
|
9 |
10/28 |
First reports, Teams 1, 2, 3 Teams 4,5,6 |
20 min |
|
10 |
11/4 |
EXAM 2 |
Exam 2 covers all materials from weeks 6, 7, 8, and 9 |
EXAM 2 |
|
11/11 |
Veterans’ Day |
|
No class |
11 |
11/18 |
Final reports, Teams 1, 2, and 6 |
|
|
12 |
11/25 |
Final reports, Teams 3, 4 and 5 |
|
|
13 |
12/2 |
EXAM 3 |
Exam 3 will cover all the presentations from weeks 11 and 12, and some review of materials from exam 2. |
EXAM 3 JCL assignment #2 |
14 |
Week of 12/09 |
Finals week |
|
Optional final exam |