Overview
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 Book Manager.
Skills Covered
- 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.
Prerequisites
You should complete:
- ES05G, An Introduction to the z/OS Environment or equivalent on-the-job training.
Target Audience
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.
Module 1: Introduction to the IBM Z Systems environment
- Topic 1: Architecture in the z Systems environment
- Topic 2: Operating systems
- Topic 3: IBM z Systems
Module 2: z/OS security
- Topic 1: System security
- Topic 2: RACF
- Topic 3: RACF profiles
Module 3: TSO ISPF panel
- Topic 1: TSO familiarization
- Exercise 1: System familiarization
- Topic 2: Introduction to z/OS data set
- Topic 3: Allocating data sets
- Exercise 2: Allocate new data sets
- Topic 4: Creating data sets and members
- Topic 5: Edit data sets
- Topic 6: Line commands
- Topic 7: Copy, move, rename, and delete data sets and members
- Exercise 3: ISPF editor primary commands
- Exercise 4: ISPF editor Line commands
- Exercise 5: Copy, move, rename, and delete data sets and members
- Topic 8: Data set lists
- Exercise 6: Data set lists
Module 4: TSO commands
- Topic 1: TSO ISPF commands
- Topic 2: Edit data sets using line commands
- Exercise 7: Using TSO/E commands
Module 5: JES and JCL
- Topic 1: Introduction to JES and JCL
- Topic 2: Coding JCL
- Topic 3: Submitting jobs using JCL
- Topic 4: JCL utilities
- Topic 5: Managing data sets using JCL)
- Exercise 8: Submit a job
- Exercise 9: JCL exercises
- Exercise 10: Procedures
Module 6: UNIX
- Topic 1: UNIX system services
- Topic 2: File systems
- Topic 3: UNIX program support and security
- Topic 4: Application services
- Topic 5: Security
- Exercise 11: ISHELL and hierarchical file system
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