A500 - Introduction to z/OS: Topical Outline

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Introduction to z/ OS - Topical Outline

z/Architecture - A hardware overview
    zSeries
    CPC - Central Processor Complex
    I/O Channels
    PR/SM, LPARs, and Sysplex
    Tapes and Disk

z/OS - A software overview
Large numbers
The Road to z/OS

z/OS Workloads
    Capacity utilization
    Workload manager
    z/OS Workloads
    Tuning

z/OS Fundamentals
    Data management terms
    Data organizations
    Sequential data set
    VTOC
    Partioned Data Set (PDS)
    Catalog
    PDSE
    The UNIX File model: the Hierarchical File System (HFS)
    Batch
    JCL
    TSO/ISPF
    CLIST and REXX
    Dialog manager
    SMS - System Managed Storage

Unicode
What is Unicode?
z/OS support for Unicode

DB2 - IBM’s Premier relational data base
    The Basics
    Indexes
    DB2 Architecture
    Embedded SQL
    Components
    DB2 UDB

Transaction monitors
    CICS/TS
    IMS
    The role of MQSeries

Languages
    Common threads
    Language Environment (LE)
    Assembler
    Enterprise COBOL
    Enterprise PL/I
    C/C++
    The program binder

z/OS and UNIX System Services
    TSO User ID
    Profiles
    UNIX User ID
    z/OS UNIX - The shell interface under OMVS
    Things you can do under z/OS UNIX
        Standard commands and utilities
        Compile / assemble / bind
        HTTP sever - host web site
        Use sed file to convert flat file to HTML
        Use sendmail and ftp
        Code / compile / run Java
        WebSphere

Sending notes, e-mails, and text messages
    Communications possibilities
    Sending emails from a batch job
    Sending text messages from a batch job to a cell phone
    SMTP notes
    Communications possibilities conclusion

Conclusion
z/OS.e and zNALC
Final thoughts

Course Objectives
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