z/OS Concepts & Facilities

LENGTH OF COURSE:
4 Days

DESCRIPTION: This course provides the student with practical knowledge of OS/390 concepts and explains the terms used within the OS/390 environment. The student is introduced to the facilities available in OS/390 and functions these facilities provide. Major OS/390 enhancements are also discussed.

PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of IBM DP fundamentals. Prior understanding of at least one operating system would be helpful. Reading the IBM manual "OS/390 Overview" is recommended. Students will benefit by bringing a listing of their SYS1.PARMLIB and JES2 startup parameters and JES3 initialization parameters to class.

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture and Exercises.

AUDIENCE

Systems Programming personnel responsible for OS/390, CICS/TS, VTAM, DATABASE, or third party software.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Concept of virtual storage
Processor storage
- Storage Frames
- Storage Keys
- Storage Migration
Types of paging and page data sets
Major OS/390, XA, and ESA differences
SRM controls used to control resource access
- IPS Concepts
- ICS Concepts
- OPT Concepts
Cross-memory services and identify differences between service request and DAS concepts
Facilities that provide for multiprocessing
- SYSPLEX
- Parallel SYSPLEX
- Communications
Facility that provides for billing and accounting, and describe its implementation

Three RMF monitoring sessions
Dumping, tracing, and diagnostic facilities and their implementation
- SLIP
- GTF
- System Trace
- Component Trace
- Master Trace
Storage management, CPU management, and I/O management
Sysplex management
- Coupling Facility
- SYSPLEX Timers

FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"Provides a good fundamental base for understanding these OS/390 processes."

Charles Gerton
BMC Software

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