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Course Description

This course gives you knowledge of the MPE/iX operating system and provide hands-on experience in the following areas:

  • creating an account structure

  • creating and listing files and file equations

  • creating and running jobs

  • copying files across groups, accounts, and systems

  • creating, modifying, and using command files and user defined commands

  • using system and user-defined variables in command files and UDCs

Course Goal and Objectives

After you complete this course, you will be able to do the following:

  • Recognize and use MPE/iX commands to set up and manage accounts, run jobs, copy files, and store and restore files to and from tape.

  • Customize your system environment by creating UDCs and command files, and use variables and expressions.

  • Catalog and uncatalog UDC files.

Orientation

This course takes an estimated two full days to complete. The majority of the information is presented in tutorial fashion with text to read, instructions to follow, questions to answer, and exercises to complete. Answers to lesson questions and exercises, as well as review exercises are grouped by module and found in the Solutions Guide.

This course assumes that the user has successfully completed Fundamentals Skills and has mastered the following skills:

  • Can log on and log off the Mpe/iX system

  • Can use an editor to create, modify, and save files

  • Can explain users, groups, accounts

  • Can make offline listings of files

Reference Documents

The following manual is used with the course:

  • MPE/iX Commands Reference Manual (32650-60002)

You may use the online help facility while studying any of the modules in this course. Enter HELPReturn at the system prompt to start the help facility. When you want to leave the help facility, enter: EXITReturn

Conventions

Read this important information before you begin to explore the modules.

These modules use instructions and different typefaces to clarify what to read and what to do. The following reflects the conventions used throughout this course:

SampleInformation for you to read and know.
SampleA term you ought to recognize or understand.
SampleEmphasis to bring something to your attention.
SAMPLEReturnSomething that is underlined and in this typeface, followed by Return, is what you should enter by typing the letters and pressing Return.
SAMPLESomething in this typeface, withoutReturn shows you how something should look on your terminal screen. Do not enter anything you see in this typeface unless it is followed by Return.
:SAMPLE Something in this typeface preceded by a colon, is another way of showing you how something should look on your terminal screen. You will learn more about the colon a little later.



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