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Fundamental System Skills in Z/OS

  • Course Code ES10G
  • Duration 5 days

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£2,975.00

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

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  • Public Classroom

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Course Overview

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 This course is designed to teach students the fundamental practical skills to navigate and work in a z/OS environment.

This includes the use of ISPF/PDF dialogs, TSO/E commands, JCL, UNIX System Services shell, and BookManager.

Course Schedule

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Target Audience

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The intended audience for this class is IT personnel with a theoretical background of z/OS (for example, as taught in ES05G) and some general practical IT experience.

Course Objectives

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•Summarize the components of the IBM Z platform.

•Interpret the benefits of security in a z/OS environment.

•Analyze how TSO ISPF panels manage the z/OS environment.

•Implement TSO commands to manage the z/OS environment.

•Distinguish the purpose and functions of JES and JCL.

•Execute UNIX processes.

Course Content

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This course consists of a mixture of theoretical and practical sections. The major objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the everyday activities involved in working in a z/OS environment. Therefore, the main focus is on the class exercises.

This course teaches:

•How to log on to the z/OS system.

•How to work with TSO/E, ISPF/PDF, and the UNIX System Services shell.

•How to create, copy, rename, and delete z/OS data sets.

•How to work with UNIX System Services files.

•How to execute CLISTs and REXX execs.

•How to submit jobs for execution and view the output online.

Day 1

  • Unit 1 - Review of ESA/390 and z/Architecture and z/OS
  • Unit 2 - An Introduction to ISPF, ISPF/PDF, and RACF
  • Unit 3 - Working with ISPF/PDF(Part 1) 

Day 2

  • Unit 3 - Working with ISPF/PDF(Part 2) 

Day 3

  • Unit 4 : TSO Commands
  • Unit 5 Working with JCL (continued)

 

    Day 4

    • Review
    • Unit 6 UNIX system Services (part 1)

    Day 5

    • Unit 6 UNIX system (Part 2)
    • Review and close out

    Course Prerequisites

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    You should complete:

    • ES05G, An Introduction to the z/OS Environment or equivalent on-the-job training.

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