AllFusion Endevor Change Manager: Advanced Processor Writing

Overview:

The AllFusion Endevor Change Manager: Advanced Processor Writing course teaches you how to use AllFusion Endevor Change Manager symbolics and utilities to create and modify processors. The course also provides sample processors for you to customize and use in your AllFusion Endevor Change Manager installation.

Description:

Who Should Attend:

Change Control Administrators 

Required Prerequisites:

AllFusion Endevor Change Manager: For Change Control Administrators (EN240)
Three months experience writing basic AllFusion Endevor Change Manager processors
Knowledge of JCL and OS Utilities 

You Will Learn How To:

Extend your knowledge of Endevor processors
Use additional processor utilities
Develop standards for writing processors
Extend use of keywords
Describe purpose and benefits of using symbolics and substrings
Discuss the control of Processor flow 

Course Activities:

Lecture
Demonstrations
Hands-on exercises 

Suggested Next Courses:

AllFusion Endevor Change Manager for DB2: Implementation and Usage (EN260) 

For Managers:

After taking this course, those responsible for Endevor Processors will be able to better review current processors either provided with the product or developed in-house.   They will be able to update the current processors to better utilize new and updated Endevor functions. They will also be able to create new processors for new and updated software inventory.

Course Agenda:
Day 1

Lesson 1: Overview

What Endevor Does
Processors and Processor Groups
ADD and MOVE Actions
Actions and Endevor Processors 

Lesson 2: Processor Utilities

BC1PDSIN
CONLIST, CONDELE, and CONWRITE
Forward and Reverse Delta
EXPAND INCLUDE
BSTCOPY 

Lesson 3: Endevor Keywords

MAXRC
Condition Code Examples
FOOTPRINT
BACKOUT
Enable and Disable BACKOUT
MONITOR
Component Monitoring
BC1PMVCL
EXECIF 

Day 2

Lesson 4: Symbolics and Substringing

Endevor Symbolics
Target and Source Symbolics
How Symbolics Are Resolved
User Symbolics
Selecting Parameters for Expeditor
Selecting Return Code for JCL Check
Overriding Symbolics
Group Definition Panel
Group Symbolics Panel
Substringing
Resolving Substrings
Controlling Processor Flow 

Lesson 5: Additional Utilities

CONWRITE Forms
Writing Elements to Data Set
EXPAND INCLUDE Members
Control Cards
Writing Elements to Exit Program
C1BM3000 Utility
Add COPY Records
Duplicate Actions
Why Invoke TSO within a Processor
BC1PTMP0 and IKJEFT01
Batch and Foreground Processing
Processor Execution
TSO Notification
C1PRMGEN Utility 

Lesson 6: ACM Processor Utilities

CONRELE
RELATE Statements
Relating Items to a Program
CONRELE in Generate Processor
Update Component List
CONSCAN
PARMSCAN
Selecting Source Data
CONSCAN in Processor 

Day 3

Lesson 7: Processor Debugging and Maintenance

Predefined Processors
Processor Generation
System Definition
Building a Processor
Processor Management Summary
Processor Debugging
Translation Error
Correcting Processor
Test Processor
Execution Error
Processor Execution Checklist
Processor Efficiencies
Using Symbolics
Modular Processors
Debugging / Verification
Appropriate Use of Utilities
Processor Tuning 

Lesson 8: Complex Processing

Endevor with DB2 Applications
DB2 Methods
Additional Bind Possibilities
Vendor Utilities
Sample Vendor Utility
Ideas for Other Processors