IBM ES15G - z/OS Facilities

Course Outline

Day 1

• Unit 1: z/OS overview
• Including welcome and course overview
• Unit 2: Storage management

Day 2

• Unit 3: Managing work
• Unit 4: Input/output processing

Day 3

• Unit 4: Input/output processing (continued)
• Unit 5: Data management
• Unit 6: Job management

Day 4

• Unit 7: IPL and system initialization
• Unit 8: Termination and recovery analysis
• Unit 9: Installing and configuring

Day 5

• Unit 10: Communicating
• Unit 11: Security in z/OS
• Including end-of-course summary

Objective

• Describe the system initialization process of the z/OS operating systems
• State the differences between an address space, data space, and hyperspace
• Describe the process of translating a virtual address to a real address
• Explain the difference between paging and swapping
• Define a z/OS task
• Describe dispatching, interrupt processing, supervisor calls, cross memory services, and serialization
• Describe the purpose of the Job Entry Subsystem (JES)
• Illustrate the flow of a job through the z/OS environment
• Describe the allocation process for data sets in the z/OS environments
• Illustrate how an I/O request is processed in a z/OS environment
• Describe how workload management is accomplished in a z/OS environment
• Explain the z/OS recovery processes and list available Problem Determination Tools
• Describe z/OS storage management concepts
• Describe the UNIX System Services functions provided in the z/OS environments
• Explain the network topologies and protocol support provided in z/OS
• Describe system security and network security for a z/OS environment
• Create a high-level plan for the installation and configuration of a z/OS environment

Prerequisites

You should have a basic knowledge of IS technologies and also should be familiar with z/OS concepts and how these systems support the Enterprise servers. This knowledge can be obtained by attending An Introduction to the z/OS Environment (ES050). Youd should also have practical experience with logging on to TSO and working with JCL. This experience can be obtained by attending z/OS Quick Start (ES10A)

Audience

This class is designed for persons who are new to the z/OS platforms but have a technical background in information technology. It is intended for those who require an in-depth understanding of z/OS.