Course outline



This provides an overview of the content of the z/OS Fundamentals Course.


z/OS Fundamentals - Synopsis

  1. - Hardware Platform
    Peripherals, Memory, Processors and Physical Resource / System Mangement (PR/SM)
  2. - z/OS Overview
    Hypervisors, a brief history, objectives, functions and an overview of key components.
  3. - z/OS Structure
    Task Management, I/O processing, Memory Management, Address Spaces and Sub-systems.
  4. - Data in z/OS
    Internal data representation, Data Sets, Catalogues, Data Set Organisations, Partitioned Data Sets and VSAM.
  5. - Running Work in z/OS
    Job Entry Sub-system, SNA vs TCP/IP, TSO/E Overview, CICS/TS Overview, Databases and Application Development.
  6. - JCL Overview
    JOB, EXEC and DD statement overviews with key operands, plus a review of IF/ELSE/ENDIF statements.
  7. - z/OS DFSMS
    DFSMS/MVS Product Family, DFSMSdfp, Storage Management aims & objectives, DFSMShsm, DFSMSdss & DFSMSrmm.
  8. - z/OS Facilities
    UNIX System Services, Global Resource Serialisation (GRS), Data in Memory, System Management Facility (SMF) & System Security.
  9. - Diagnostic Aids
    Consoles, Messages, ABEND Codes, Dumps and Dump Analysis Elimination (DAE) plus Error Recording and EREP.
  10. - z/OS Commands Overview
    Automatic Commands, Console vs SDSF, Managig Tasks, Managing Devices and Stopping z/OS.
  11. - JES2 Commands Overview
    Starting JES2, Managing Initiators, Managing Jobs/Tasks, Managing Input Queues, Managing Output Queues & Stopping JES2.