IBM ESB3G - z/OS Management Facility Implementation and Use

Course Outline

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: z/OS Management Facility: Overview
• Unit 2: z/OS Management Facility: Implementation and configuration
• Exercise 1: z/OSMF planning and prerequisites

Day 2

• Exercise 1:z/OSMF planning and prerequisites (continued)
• Exercise 2: z/OS Management Facility configuration and setup
• Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility: Usage
• Exercise 3: z/OS Management Facility post-configuration and administration

Day 3

• Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility: Usage (continued)
• Exercise 4: z/OS Management Facility exploitation
• Wrap-up

Objective

• Describe the purpose and benefit of z/OS Management Facility
• Describe the functions provided by z/OS Management Facility
• Describe the technical overview of z/OSMF features and architecture
• Describe the z/OSMF client and server operating environment
• Describe the systems management tasks and updates with every release
• Indicate list of publications and references
• Describe ordering and installing the z/OSMF software (code)
  • Using ServerPac or SMP/E
• Describe setup and configuration overall process:
  • Configure z/OS prerequisites for plug-ins
  • Configure z/OSMF
• Explain any migration issues or concerns
• Describe the details of each function, updated for each release ofz/OSMF
• Understand the detailed examples of how to use the z/OSMF features
• Describe the z/OSMF tasks (and release of z/OS and z/OSMF that was introduced)
• Manage the z/OSMF Administration:
  • Adding users, defining roles, new SAF-based authorization
  • Customize Welcome screen, add Links

Prerequisites

You should have a good knowledge of z/OS at the level of a z/OS system programmer, acquired on the job or through the z/OS curriculum, including skills required to install and customize z/OS UNIX applications.

If the above prerequisites are not met, then the courses listed in the Curriculum are recommended.

Audience

This intermediate course is intended for experienced system programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise.

The students must have basic knowledge of z/OS UNIX System Services (USS), and the skills normally required to install a z/OS product using SMP/E and batch jobs to update system data sets.

RACF knowledge is useful, as well as WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile for z/OS.