After completing this course, you will be able to

• Write JCL and DFSORT control statements to sort, copy, and merge records in
  Sequential data sets, VSAM data sets, Members of PDS or PDSE, HFS Files
• Create symbolic name files to use in DFSORT and ICETOOL control statements
• Write JCL and DFSORT and ICETOOL control statements that enable you to
  Work with subsets of files, build new records, reformat existing records
  Add, remove, and reorder fields, convert data type of fields, and edit content
  Do arithmetic calculations, inserting sequence numbers
  Replace values using lookup pairs in specific locations or in any location
  Extract fixed length values from variable length fields (parse)
  Output multiple files in a single pass, including XML, and HTML
  Reports with up to three levels of control breaks
  Work with dates and times in a wide variety of formats, including SMF, TOD, and ETOD
  Convert between fixed length record files and variable length record files
  Join records and fields from two files and process the resulting file set