Training offering

Fundamental System Skills in Z/OS

Description

This course is designed to teach you 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.

Objectives

•    Review the main concepts of z/OS
•    Log on to TSO and start ISPF/PDF
•    Navigate through ISPF/PDF dialogs and use the basic ISPF/PDF functions and the ISPF Editor
•    Use ISPF/PDF to allocate data sets and edit data sets (including hierarchical file system (HFS) files) via the ISPF Editor primary and line commands
•    Use ISPF to create and manipulate (copy, rename, delete, list, sort and merge) data sets
•    Identify security considerations for Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) data sets and HFS files
•    Describe and use TSO/E commands
•    Perform simple modifications to existing ISPF/PDF panels
•    Invoke a REXX exec and TSO CLIST
•    Tailor existing JCL and submit batch jobs
•    Review job status and job output using SDSF
•    Invoke UNIX processes

Participants

The intended audience for this class is IT personnel with a theoretical background of z/OS (for example, as taught in ES05) and some general practical IS experience.

Prerequisite(s)

You should complete:
•    An Introduction to the z/OS Environment(ES05) or equivalent on-the-job training

Programme

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
Day 2
•    Unit 3 - Working with ISPF/PDF
•    Unit 4 - Working with TSO/E
•    Unit 5 - Working with JCL
Day 3
•    Unit 5 Working with JCL (continued)
•    Unit 6 UNIX System Services
Day 4
•    Unit 6 UNIX system Services (continued)