INFO3105 Week 1 Class 1

Introduction

Welcome Course Outline FOL Email Expectations

o Attendance o Daily checkpoints

Software

Download and install the VMWare Workstation from the following ftp site (inside the college):

http://ity-g1013-sfss.fc.ca o Change folders to VMWare o Download

serial.txt VMware-workstation-full-10.0.0-1295980.exe

The remaining software for this course can be found in a VM at this location (note this site is only available inside the college):

http://ity-g1013-sfss.fc.ca o Change folders to: CobolVMFTPSite/VM/RDZ-VMCopy o Download

RDZ-VM.vmdx RDZ-VM.vmx

This virtual machine contains the following software:

o Windows XP SP3 – user is administrator password is sa o Rational Developer for System Z ver. 8.0.1 o Chrome Browser (you may want to update this as it is an old version)

Download and unzip this file to your local drive, then double click on the Rdz-VM.vmx icon to launch the virtual machine.

I will walk through setting up a local project (without the mainframe today) and show you how to setup your first project. I will use some COBOL source code that can be found in the FOL files Lab1 COBOL Source and Lab1 Data. We will eventually end up using this code a couple different ways to get you introduced to the mainframe and COBOL. Specifically we will:

1. Locally edit compile and run on your laptop – today’s task 2. Use the Rdz client environment to do the same thing on the mainframe – next

class

In class #1 / Homework (2%):

1. Install the VMWare Workstation software 2. Download and unzip the Virtual machine for this course 3. Start the VM (Rdz-VM.vmx) and sign in with administrator and sa credentials 4. Create the Lab1Local project and Lab1.cbl program 5. Submit a screen shot of the output file contents and be sure to add your name to

the heading as shown in class: 6. Read chapter 1 of the text to get an overview of a simple cobol program. We’ll be

making some changes to the code from today next class.