IBM System z Fast Track (ESZ0G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

• Mainframes and distributed server comparisons: Why so many servers?
• Mainframe directions: Past, current, and future
• Mainframes: System z introduction and relative performance comparisons
• IBM System z hardware design: Frames, CEC cage, books, models and MSUs
• I/O Infrastructure and processor usage: zEC12 to z10 comparisons
• System z Capacity on Demand
• Physical/Logical partitioning, server initialization, and CHPIDs
• I/O configuration and HCD overview
• MVS to z/OS software overview
• z/OS Parallel Sysplex
• z/OS enhancements on the zPlatform
• z/Architecture overview and virtual addressing concepts
• System concepts: The big picture
• HMC introduction, groups, and activation profiles
• Determining object status and error conditions
• Activation and operating system interface
• z/OS base elements and optional features
• z/OS system programming
• z/OS system libraries
• Data center components and trends
• TSO/E and ISPF/PDF
• Data sets and accessing with ISPF/PDF
• ISPF/PDF editor
• Copy/Move/Rename/Delete
• Data Set List
• TSO/E commands and TSO/E programming
• Introduction to JES and JCL
• JOB, EXEC, and DD statements
• DD parameters
• Traditional applications
• Programming languages
• Object technology
• System-level-security
• Network-level security
• Transaction-level security
• Directory services
• z/OSMF
• SDSF
• Working with UNIX System Services
• Introduction to utilities and conditional execution
• Data management, organization, and format
• Generation data groups
• Procedures
• More about utilities
• More on procedures
• Selected JCL topics
• SORT and MERGE
• ABENDs