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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: Sample | Information for you to read and know. | Sample | A term you ought to recognize or understand. | Sample | Emphasis to bring something to your attention. | SAMPLEReturn | Something that is underlined and in this typeface, followed by Return, is what you should enter by typing the letters and pressing Return. | SAMPLE | Something 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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