Z/OS (OS/390) Appreciation

Overview
This course provides a non-technical overview of the IBM mainframe from a user's point of view. It outlines some of the major components of the operating system and explains how the workload is processed. This course is for people new to the mainframe environment and should be regarded as a first step in an IT education.

Course objectives
This course will enable the attendee to understand the OS/390 environment and to lay the foundation for future courses.

By the end of this course you will have learned
How OS/390 interfaces with the hardware resources to process a wide variety of workloads.

Who should attend
IT staff needing an appreciation of the IBM mainframe system.

Pre-requisites
None.

Course synopsis

• The design objectives of OS/390
• The hardware
  Processors and input/output devices
• Storage
  Central; expanded; virtual storage and dataspaces and hiperspaces
• Data
  How data is structured and controlled including the use of databases
• Job processing
  How the OS/390 Job Entry Subsystem (JES2) controls the flow of work through the system and an introduction to OS/390 (MVS) job control language
• System Interfaces
  How users gain interactive access to OS/390 facilities and functions using ISPF and online transaction processing facilities; operations, management and control