Matthew Webber wrote:
> Steve,
> I appreciated the humour, but some spam filters may not. Consider posting
> without embedded text that may result in the message not being seen
by some
> folks.
> FWIW
>
Hmmm. Perhaps you're right. OK, here's the squeaky clean version:
Announcing the availabliity of our newest course: "Secrets of
Inter-Language Communication in z/OS". I used "Secrets"
simply because a lot of the techniques discussed in this
course seem to be unknown to a large number of programmers.
Although the course focuses on calling and being called
across language boundaries, it could be taken just for
learning the techniques in any one of the languages we
cover in the class: Assembler, COBOL, PL/I, and C.
Major topics:
* Declaring data items (elementary, structures, arrays)
in all four languages
* working with null-terminated strings and halfword
prefixed strings in all these languages
* calling statically from programs written in all of
the discussed languages
* passing arguments in the call / invocation
- by reference, by value
- variable numbers of arguments
- all types of arguments (elements, structures, arrays)
- omitted arguments
* receiving paramters in the subroutine / subfunction
- by reference, by value
- variable numbers of parameters
- all types of parameters (elements, structures, arrays)
- omitted parameters
* how to "catch" values returned from a function
* how to set values to return as if from a function
* formats of object decks (OBJ, XOBJ, GOFF)
* how the program binder works
* sharing external data items
* load modules vs program objects
* calling dynamically from all languages
* creating DLLs in all four languages
* invoking DLL functions from all four languages
* accessing and changing values in DLL variables
in all four languages
The student handout consists of 538 exciting, thrill-packed
pages of notes, examples, and explanations. Ten labs let
you get your hands on and actually accomplish all this
kind of work yourself.
The previous version was only offered once. But judging
by several of the recent threads on ibm-main, the time
may be just right for this course. Take a look at the
details at:
http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m520descr.htm
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
http://www.trainersfriend.com
P.S. I seem to be incorrigible. I just love this
stuff (z/OS, programming, teaching) so I guess I'll
just keep plugging away at it as long as it is so
much fun.
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