Course Duration: 3 days (on-site)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

People who have need to control other processes (such as PERUSE; or SCF;), or who need advanced knowledge of program control tools.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• Handling errors or logic exceptions
• Utility and other process control
• Advanced ROUTINE processing
• Building Menus
• Handling Timestamps

PREREQUISITES

• PLT201 - Basic TACL; Programming

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS?

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• Module 1 – Parsing Variables:
• Global Editing of variables
• Using JOIN and SORT Builtins
• Line and Character Editing
• Procssing a .CSV file
• Formatting numbers for decimals and output
• LAB
• Module 2 – Process Control:
• INLINE processing
• Implicit & Explicit Servers
• LAB
• Module 3 – Exception Handling:
• Features of Exception Handlers
• Release Handler
• Keep handler
• LAB
• Module 4 – Handling Variable Stacks:
• Stacks, refresher on FRAME
• Using VARIABLEINFO
• Using variables in a stack
• LAB
• Module 5 –Directories and Segments:
• Use of Directories and Segment files
• Building a Segment File
• Directories and TACLLOCL, impact on the logon process
• LAB
• Module 6 -Discussion of Recursion:
• Recursion in MACRO files
• Recursion in ROUTINE files
• Module 7 -Handling Time:
• Distinction between 3- and 4-word time BUILTINS
• Computing time differences
• Converting Dates to timestamps
• Converting timestamps to Dates
• LAB
• Module 8 -Define Process:
• Passthrough function
• WAIT and NOWAIT options
• Preparse and Macro options
• LAB