An Introduction to the z/OS Environment - On-Demand Course

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Course Details

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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An Introduction to the z/OS Environment

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