How to Do Almost Everything with IDCAMS

The Access Method Services utility – IDCAMS – is probably the most important and one of the most commonly used applications that runs on z/OS. Whether it’s ordinary garden-variety datasets or complex VSAM structures, aliases, and PDS/PDSEs, IDCAMS is involved their creation, deletion, and access. The system programmer also relies on IDCAMS for managing catalogs, tape libraries, VSAM record-level-sharing, and more. Understanding IDCAMS and its amazingly wide range of functions and features is a necessity for mainframe analysts from newbies to grizzled gurus.

During this webinar, we’ll take a look at IDCAMS – what it’s used for, its features and controls, and the best ways to use IDCAMS to get information and transform data.