An advanced programme on IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS. It covers machine architecture, registers and addressing, instruction types, base registers and USING, macros, subroutines and linkage conventions, data handling and basic dump reading. Labs build practical programs and utilities, giving learners the skills to maintain performance-critical and system-level code.
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Explain z/Architecture registers, addressing and instruction formats
Write HLASM programs using standard instructions and directives
Set up base registers and use USING and DROP correctly
Apply standard linkage conventions and call subroutines
Use macros and conditional assembly
Process data with packed, binary and character instructions
Read basic dumps and debug assembler programs
Interface assembler routines with COBOL programs
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- Working programming experience, ideally COBOL or another structured language
- Basic z/OS skills: ISPF, JCL, datasets
- Comfort with binary and hexadecimal numbers
- Suited to experienced developers and system programmers
LAB ACCESS (provided by Ez-Learn)
- Dedicated z/OS lab environment with personal user ID; access details issued at course start
- Guided hands-on exercises mapped to every module
STUDY MATERIAL (Ez-Learn LMS with Lifetime Access)
- Course slides, lab guides
- Practice exercises
- Reference notes
- Assessments for every Module
- Interview Preparation Questions
- Sample resumes (On Request)
- Mock Interviews (On Request)
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02 Dec 2026
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