The goal of the Tivoli Implementation Foundation Skills: z/OS class is to provide students with a basic understanding of the IBM z/OS operating system and the major subsystems that run under it. The course will also introduce several of the IBM Tivoli products that run under z/OS and provide a brief description of their purpose and features. The course will introduce these Tivoli products: IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS, IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS, IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager for z/OS, IBM Tivoli WebSphere Studio Application Monitor, and IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS.
Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to accomplish the following:
Describe the basics of the z/OS operating system architecture
Describe the basics of how to start and stop z/OS
Explain the concept of a subsystem in z/OS
State the high level purpose of the major z/OS subsystems and components
Explain the purpose of SMP/E
Identify the differences between a batch job, a started task, and a TSO user
Describe the typical peripheral devices used in a z/OS environment
Describe several of the IBM Tivoli Products that run under z/OS
Display the various subsystem started tasks on the system console
Display the devices that are available to z/OS on the system console
Describe features available in TSO/ISPF and SDSF
Log on to TSO/ISPF and navigate ISPF and SDSF dialog panels
Enter commands from TSO/ISPF and SDSF
Describe several different dataset formats available in z/OS
Allocate and edit a dataset
Describe the three primary JCL statements that comprise a batch job
Create, Submit, and Monitor a simple batch job from TSO/ISPF
Describe Unix Systems Services (USS)
Access USS using OMVS from TSO/ISPF
Describe the basics of intersystem communications when multiple z/OS systems are involved
Describe the basics of a Sysplex
Describe at a high level how several of the IBM Tivoli products are used in the z/OS Sysplex environment
Course outline
z/OS Architecture
z/OS Architecture Part 1:
Lesson 1. What is z/OS?
Lesson 2. History of the Mainframe
Lesson 3. Address Spaces
Lesson 4. Peripheral Devices
Lesson 5. Hardware Management Console (HMC)
z/OS Architecture Part 2:
Lesson 6. System Initialization
Lesson 7. MVS Subsystems
Lesson 8. System Shutdown
Lesson 9. Running z/OS under zVM
z/OS Architecture Part 3:
Lesson 10. z/OS Software
Lesson 11. Software Installation and Maintenance
Running Software and Doing Work in z/OS
Lesson 1. Running Software on z/OS
Lesson 2. JES2 Initiators, Input, and Output
Lesson 3. Online Users
Lesson 4. Prioritizing and Monitoring Work
Lesson 5. Using the z/OS System Console
Student Exercises for Unit 2: z/OS System Console usage
Storing and accessing data in z/OS
Lesson 1. Data Set Overview
Lesson 2. Allocating Data Sets
Lesson 3. Common Data Set Utilities
Lesson 4. Protecting Data Sets
Accessing and using TSO and ISPF
Lesson 1. Time Sharing Option (TSO)
Lesson 2. ISPF
Lesson 3. Managing Data Sets with ISPF
Student Exercises for Unit 4: Accessing and navigating TSO and ISPF
Job Control Language
Lesson 1. Job Control Language Overview
Lesson 2. The Job Statement
Lesson 3. The EXEC Statement
Lesson 4. The Data Definition (DD) Statement
Lesson 5. JCL Procedures (PROCs)
Lesson 6. Submitting Batch Jobs
Student Exercises for Unit 5: A simple batch job
Monitoring Batch Jobs and Started Tasks
Lesson 1. Job Related JES2 Commands
Lesson 2. SDSF
Lesson 3. TWS for z/OS
Student Exercises for Unit 6: JES2 and SDSF commands
Unix System Services (USS)
Lesson 1. UNIX System Services Overview
Lesson 2. Accessing USS
Lesson 3. UNIX File System
Lesson 4. UNIX Commands
Lesson 5. Browsing, Editing, and Managing UNIX Files
Lesoon 6. IBM Tivoli UNIX Applications
Student Exercises for Unit 7: Accessing and Navigating USS
Connecting and Monitoring Multiple z/OS Systems
Lesson 1. z/OS Intersystem Communications
Lesson 2. VTAM Communications
Lesson 3. TCP/IP Communications
Lesson 4. Sysplex Communications
Lesson 5. Managing a Sysplex
Lesson 6. Monitoring a Sysplex
Student Exercises for Unit 8: VTAM, TCP/IP, and Sysplex commands
Who will benefit from this course
Technical persons, implementors and administrators, that want to gain a basic understanding of the z/OS platform and an introduction to these IBM Tivoli products that run in the z/OS environment: IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS, IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS, IBM Tivoli WebSphere Studio Application Monitor, IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager for z/OS, and IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS.
Required skills/knowledge
This is an introductory course suitable for students that have no prior exposure to the z/OS environment and the Tivoli products that run in the z/OS environment. However, a good understanding of computer systems, computer system administraion, and computer operations is required.
