Training offering

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX Fundamentals

Description

The IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct® for UNIX Fundamentals course is a three day course that introduces you to Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX, the Sterling Connect:Direct Process Language, and the Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent.  You will install and navigate within Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX, submit processes to transfer data, and apply troubleshooting and performance tuning techniques.

Objectives

This course has been designed to enable the students to:
•    Describe Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX and the process for installing it.
•    Start and stop Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX.
•    Use Job Control and History commands with the Command Line Interface.
•    Describe, identify, and customize Initialization Parameters files, Network Map files, and Authorization Information files.
•    Locate and identify Client Configuration files and Authentication Key files.
•    Describe and use the submit, select, change, delete, flush, stop, and statistic commands.
•    Install and use Requestor for Windows.
•    Describe the Process Language.
•    Write a COPY, Conditional, RUN JOB, RUN TASK, SUBMIT, and SYMBOL statements.
•    Explain why and when to use the ndmxlt, apnotify, and ndmmsg utilities.
•    Restart a process.
•    Use the trace command to gather troubleshooting information.
•    Describe the Session Manager Protocol and the Life Cycle Process.
•    Apply performance tuning methods to Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX.
•    Describe, install, and use the Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent

Participants

This basic course is for UNIX User.

Prerequisite(s)

You should have:
•    Working knowledge of vi Editor

Programme

•    About Sterling Connect:Direct
•    Preparing to Use Sterling Connect:Direct
•    Verifying the Installation
•    Configuration Files
•    Initialization Parameters
•    Client Configuration File
•    Client and Server Authentication Key Files
•    Network Map Files
•    User Authorization Information Files
•    Submitting Processes
•    Selecting Processes
•    Changing processes
•    Deleteing and Flushing Processes
•    Stopping Sterling Conect:Direct
•    Selecting Statistics
•    Using the Requestor
•    Introduction to Process Language
•    COPY Statement
•    Conditional Statements
•    RUN JOB and RUN TASK Statement
•    SUBMIT Statement
•    SYMBOL Statement
•    Putting It All Together
•    Utilities
•    Restarting a Process
•    Running Traces
•    Session Manager
•    Performance and Tuning
•    About Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent
•    Getting Started with Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent