May 09, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CST 340 - Introduction to Mainframe Operations


When Offered: F, SS

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)
0 Lab Hour(s)

This course is an introduction to mainframe operations including concepts and functions of the OS/MVS operating system. Topics include virtual storage, Job Control Language (JCL), data management, data set organization, compilers, and linkage editor. Additional, topics include the study of instream data sets, portioned data sets, temporary and cataloged sequential data sets, and cataloged procedures.

Prerequisite(s): CST 140  or consent of instructor.