Tutorials for z and HLASM?

[Seymour J Metz]

Are there any good online tutorials for unprivileged z/Architecture and HLASM for programmers with no prior assembler experience? Ideally I'd like something faster paced than Programming 101, and several of us will be available as mentors, workload permitting.

[Gary Weinhold]

Interskill has courses that IBM gives badges for:
https://interskill.com/ibm-credentials/ibm-badges/

I don't really know anything about them - somebody had previously recommended them to me based on a similar question.

Gary Weinhold
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[Farley, Peter]

Maybe start with Dr. John Erhman's tutorial PDF? Or is that too deep for the student profile? Or are you looking for an actual class (with exercises and tests and suchlike), self-paced or otherwise?

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Subject: Tutorials for z and HLASM?

Are there any good online tutorials for unprivileged z/Architecture and HLASM for programmers with no prior assembler experience? Ideally I'd like something faster paced than Programming 101, and several of us will be available as mentors, workload permitting.

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[Rene BRANDT]

Hi Peter,

Is it a site Where We can doWnload this tutorial ?

Many thanks,
René

[Ian Worthington]

$2,500 per user though.


Best wishes / Mejores deseos /  Meilleurs vœux

Ian ...

[Ian Worthington]

I believe it might be at http://zseries.marist.edu/enterprisesystemseducation/assemblerlanguageresources/Assembler.V2.alntext%20V2.00.pdf but my connection is apparently glacial this morning and I can't verify it.
Failing that, search for: https://www.google.com/search?q=erhman+pdf+%22Assembler+Language+Programming+for+IBM%22&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=571229774&sxsrf=AM9HkKkbTdUTkgFoDeuzrxQOISI_dv5eDQ%3A1696576444983&ei=vLMfZcTQO7WrkdUPq-yB6Ak&ved=0ahUKEwjEntni7-CBAxW1VaQEHSt2AJ0Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=erhman+pdf+%22Assembler+Language+Programming+for+IBM%22

Best wishes / Mejores deseos /  Meilleurs vœux

Ian ...

[Rene BRANDT]

thank you very much Ian

[Binyamin Dissen]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 01:33:41 +0000 Seymour J Metz <sme...@GMU.EDU> wrote:

:>Are there any good online tutorials for unprivileged z/Architecture and HLASM for programmers with no prior assembler experience? Ideally I'd like something faster paced than Programming 101, and several of us will be available as mentors, workload permitting.

Should be Michael Stack stuff on the Northern Illinois University site.

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[Mike Shaw]

We have most of the non-privileged HLASM instructions and directives and
HLASM JCL documented individually in MVS/QuickRef. A description of each
instruction, with an example of how to use it, can be fetched using the
mnemonic or the op code, e.g.

QW L
QW LARL
QW USING
QW PACK
QW LTORG
QW EB1C (for RLLG)

'course, the student needs to have access to z/OS :-)

Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

[Seymour J Metz]

Actually, we're licensed for it, and it's certainly useful for someone whe already is proficient in assembler but doesn't know the more obscure opcodes, but it's no tutorial. I'm looking for something that organizes the material appropriately, has excercises, etc.

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[Seymour J Metz]

Do you have a link? A quick search turned up a lot of irrelevant stuff, although a few were interesting in their own right? Thanks.

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http://www.dissensoftware.com/

[Seymour J Metz]

That's something that I sould have thought of. Thanks. I might also take a look at boot camp.

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[Seymour J Metz]

I doubt that there's a budget for that. There are some internal classes, but they are in 2024.

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$2,500 per user though.


Best wishes / Mejores deseos / Meilleurs vœux

Ian ...

On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 04:01:14 AM GMT+2, Gary Weinhold <wein...@dkl.com> wrote:

Interskill has courses that IBM gives badges for:
https://interskill.com/ibm-credentials/ibm-badges/

I don't really know anything about them - somebody had previously recommended them to me based on a similar question.

Gary Weinhold
Senior Application Architect
DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization
Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216
Email: wein...@dkl.com

Visit us online at http://www.dkl.com/

[Seymour J Metz]

I'm looking for an actual class, or at least a course outline and exercises?

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[Ian Worthington]

Maybe then something like https://punctiliousprogrammer.com/the-video-course/ ?

Best wishes / Mejores deseos /  Meilleurs vœux

Ian ...

[Clifford McNeill]

This is a nice course.  https://www.billqualls.com/assembler/

Cliff

[Farley, Peter]

There is this from Marist College:

https://idcp.marist.edu/assembler-programming-certificate

They say on that page that “This certificate is 100% on line”. You’ll have to email them for cost and scheduling.

Peter

[Michael Oujesky]

MVS 3.8 on Hercules might be an inexpensive alternative for the basics???

Michael

[dave....@gmail.com]

Folks,
MVS 3.8J does not have HLASM only the old Assembler XF, and of course you
can add other assemblers, but they are all old style, not HLASM compatible.
The nearest thing to HLASM that's in the public domain is the Z390 package
which contains everything you need to learn basic assembler on a PC,

https://z390development.github.io/z390/

so Assembler, Macros, emulation of hardware and parts of MVS/zOS

Dave

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[Seymour J Metz]

We already have z/OS on z15 and z16 hardware; what we need is a fast way to get new people up to speed.

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MVS 3.8 on Hercules might be an inexpensive alternative for the basics???

[Farley, Peter]

Yes, that one is by David Woolbright, who is also mentioned on the John Ehrman page at Marist (https://idcp.marist.edu/assembler-resources) and seems to also be free of cost.

Peter

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Maybe then something like https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://punctiliousprogrammer.com/the-video-course/__;!!Ebr-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!KgHj7WyWmQ3qVJh8u95ugh10O6W3lkgf74xzBoh786m7_xJqBNNLj0q36-LVRn8UV6IivHYvzdSJDMxSTBLEk2F45JTPpSzaTlBxOL2J$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/punctiliousprogrammer.com/the-video-course/__;!!Ebr-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!KgHj7WyWmQ3qVJh8u95ugh10O6W3lkgf74xzBoh786m7_xJqBNNLj0q36-LVRn8UV6IivHYvzdSJDMxSTBLEk2F45JTPpSzaTlBxOL2J$> ?

Best wishes / Mejores deseos / Meilleurs vœux



Ian ...

On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 02:54:39 PM GMT+2, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu<mailto:sme...@gmu.edu>> wrote:



I'm looking for an actual class, or at least a course outline and exercises?



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Maybe start with Dr. John Erhman's tutorial PDF? Or is that too deep for the student profile? Or are you looking for an actual class (with exercises and tests and suchlike), self-paced or otherwise?

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[Jon Newton]

As someone else pointed out, the Marist college course is still taught by David.

Here are details on the two sessions coming up:

• Basic Assembler Application Programming – November 27, 2023 - February 16, 2024 (10 weeks)
- The class teaches students to develop fundamental assembler programming skills. Topics include number systems, machine components, instruction formats, addressing techniques, character manipulation, looping, conditional logic, packed decimal and binary arithmetic, multiple CSECTs, parameter passing, linkage conventions, debugging by hand and with the interactive debugger zXDC, dump reading, and DSECTs.

• Advanced Assembler Application Programming – February 26, 2024 – May 11, 2024 (10 weeks)
- This class will provide an opportunity to develop z/ OS assembler code that uses tables, lists and linked lists, z/OS units of work such as TCB’s and multitasking, z/OS assembler techniques and services to provide high levels of availability, z/OS assembler instructions and techniques for serialization, z-architecture instructions, z/OS multitasking using non-privileged system services, programs with multiple CSECTs, and re-entrant code.

Even though the certificate program has already started (intro to z/os course is going right now), I believe you can register for the two assembler classes individually. We are looking at options at my company, thus this is all top of mind.

Good luck in the search.

Jon

[Seymour J Metz]

Thanks. Forwarded.

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[Emir Garza]

IBM are producing a series of three free online z/Architecture Assembler courses:

1. z/Architecture Assembler language. Part 1: The basics - https://learn.ibm.com/course/view.php?id=12127.
2. z/Architecture Assembler language. Part 2: Machine instructions - to be published soon (aiming for November 2023).
3. z/Architecture Assembler language. Part 3: Working programs - to be published next year.

You need an IBM ID to access the courses.
It is aimed at application programmers.