VME Nova Groundworks

Course Overview

For those people who will be working in applications development and technical support on VME, this course provides the participants with the basic concepts of VME and SCL, and enables them to use simple file handling facilities. It forms an important foundation that will be built upon as their VME training progresses.

Audience

Experienced applications programmers, operations analysts and technical support staff who have previous experience of writing job control programs, and new 4GL applications programmers will benefit from this course.

Skills Gained

Participants will acquire the knowledge and skills to:

• Run an interactive MAC session making effective using block structuring to control system resources
• Use the editing facilities available under VME
• Create and manipulate serial files using the relevant SCL commands
• Use the basic elements of the SCL language to write simple job control programs
• Introduce and use the libraries and file groups

Prerequisites

Delegates should be experienced applications programmers, operations analysts or technical support staff, previous experience of writing job control programs would be useful.

Course Outline

• Action to VME Hardware/Software
• Introduction to SCL and MAC use
• Editing Facilities (ED, SD, SCEF)
• SCL Language Elements
• SCL File Handling
• Libraries and Groups
• Writing simple job control programs
• Introduction To SCL Programming