z/OS Concepts & Facilities

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• describe the mainframe hardware components
• explain how I/O components are configured and used
• describe the main features of z/OS and its associated system software
• explain the relationship between the hardware and software
• explain the relationship between MVS and its associated components
• understand how to use an MVS system via TSO and batch jobs
• describe how data is managed by SMS.

Who Should Attend
All programmers, senior operations staff and other IS personnel requiring an understanding of z/OS.

Duration
2 days

Course Code
1011
Contents
The mainframe in the world of IT - today and tomor



What is a mainframe?
The hardware components; MVS versions; IBM mainframe machine models; z/Architecture, PR/SM and LPAR - hardware partitioning.


I/O devices in IBM mainframes
I/O peripherals, ESCON/FICON, DASD & RAID, Tape and Virtual Tape devices, IOCP, HCD.


Overview of main MVS functions
Running programs in MVS: jobs, started tasks, TSO, ASCH/APPC , OMVS; job management and Job Entry Subsystem (JES); memory management; Input/Output processing; Sysplex and Parallel Sysplex.


The complete z/OS system
MVS, JES and DFSMS/MVSdfp and other mandatory components; networking software (SNA/VTAM and TCP/IP); transaction systems and database systems: CICS, IMS, DB2; programming and developer tools; the packaging.


Working with MVS
Logging on to TSO, Using ISPF, Using the UNIX shell, ISHELL, Batch processing, Writing JCL.


Data management
ICF catalogs, VTOCs, HSM and SMS.