Course Details
Course Description:
The An Introduction to the z/OS Environment course is a 2-day course that is designed to provide students an overview of the z/OS operating systems and services for non-MVS IS technical personnel.
Topics covered in the course include:
- Identifying the installation requirements for an enterprise server and how z/OS supports these requirements
- Discusing s the services for application enablement in a z/OS environment
- Identifying how z/OS provides support for On Demand Business
- Describing how security is ensured in a z/OS environment
- Identifying products and tools that support a central point of control
- Characterizing products and facilities that support z/OS systems
- Describing the essential system services of z/OS
- List the z/Architecture processor configurations for z/OS
- Describing z/OS connectivity, communication facilities, and interfaces
- Describing how zEnterprise creates a single system of systems
- The concept, strategy, and benefits of the z/OS environment
- Application enablement in z/OS
- Overview of On Demand Business support in z/OS
- Connectivity to the z/OS environment
- Security support provided by z/OS
- Systems Management support (Tivoli, SMP/E, SMF, and RMF)
- Scalability, availability, backup, and recovery features in z/OS
- System Services support (storage management, job management, work management, data sets, and data set management)
- System z processor configurations, System z Enterprise Server hardware
- zEnterprise, a new dimension in computing
Target Student:
This basic course is for personnel with a technical background in information technology who are new to the z/OS platform and do not have prior MVS or OS/390 experience.
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites are required for this course.
Course Outline
1. Requirements of an enterprise server
2. Application enablement
3. Enabling On Demand Business on z/OS
4. z/OS connectivity
5. Security in a z/OS environment
6. Systems management
7. System and data availability
8. System services
9. System z9 and z10 and System z hardware
10. zEnterprise. A new dimension in computing
Please check the course description to find prerequisite information.
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