z/OS System Overview

LENGTH OF COURSE:
1 Day

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive review of the terms, concepts, and facilities of the OS/390 environment. The course explains, in clear terms, the concepts of hardware and software. The course will give the students a better understanding of their responsibilities as support staff.

PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of data processing concepts.

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture and Exercises. Students will follow a job through OS/390 components, identify major OS/390 components, and subsystems.

AUDIENCE

Data Processing Managers, Applications Programmers, and Computer Operators.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Introduction to the OS/390 operating system
OS/390 architecture
- Address Space Structures
- Data Spaces
- Hiperspaces
- Sub Spaces
Security and RACF
Multiprocessing, PSW, interrupts and operator console
I/O and Data Management
Paging, DAT and Storage Protection
Job Entry Subsystem: Use, Facilities & Commands
OS/390 System Commands
- SYSPLEX management
- SYSPLEX Timers
- Workloads
- Coupling Facility
- SLIP Enhancements
- IPCS Enhancements
Starting, Loading and Initializing the System

Controlling the system and external writers
Controlling DASD
Introduction to DFHSM and Storage Management
Controlling system information recording
- SMF
- RMF
- SYSLOGS
- LOGREC
Interacting with system functions and the console
OS/390 Job Control Language
- Syntax, Meaning, Options
Review of IBM utilities
Time Sharing Option (TSO)
Operations Tools
- DASD Tools
- Catalog information
- Common Abends & Errors
- Problem Determination
- Run Book and Problem Reporting

FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"Learning materials will be useful on the job."

Linda M. Reiling
Rock Island Arsenal

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