Duration
5 days
Audience
This basic class is designed for persons with a technical background in information technology, who are new to the z/OS platforms. It is intended for those who require an in-depth understanding of z/OS.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Basic knowledge of IS technologies.
- You 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 (ES05). You should also have practical experience with logging on to TSO and working with JCL. This experience can be obtained by attending Fundamental System Skills for z/OS (ES10).
Course Objectives
- Describe the system initialization processes of the z/OS operating systems
- State the differences between an address space, data space, and hiperspace
- Describe the process of translating a virtual address to a real address
- Explain the difference between paging and swapping
- Describe a z/OS task
- Describe z/OS 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 the data sets in the z/OS environment
- Illustrate how an Input/Output (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 the available problem determination tools
- Describe z/OS storage management concepts
- Describe the UNIX System Services functions provided in the z/OS environment
- Create a high-level plan for the installation and configuration of either z/OS
Course Content
- z/OS Overview
- Storage management
- Managing work
- I/O processing
- Data management
- Job management
- Termination and recovery analysis
- Communicating
- Security in z/OS
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.