z/VM, CMS, and Linux for System z Basics

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z/VM, CMS, and Linux for System z Basics - Topical Outline

Day One

    VM Overview
    Logging On
    The Directory
    The Spool
    Basic Commands
    The CMS File System
    Sharing Another User's Files
    Editing Files
    Customizing Your System
    Communicating with Other Users
    The Help System
    Programming Under CMS

Day Two

    Linux Overview
    Evolution of Linux
    Open Source
    A Little zSeries History
    The Concepts of a Real Machine
    A Little VM History
    The Concepts of a Virtual Machine
    How Linux and VM Got Together
    VM to Linux Translations
    Linux Benefits
    Linux, z/VM & System z Hardware
    Linux Guest Configuration
    DASD Device Names
    Formatting DASD for Linux
    SLES 10 Linux Installation

Day Three

    Emulating Control Characters
    There's Help, with man
    Linux Distributions
    Linux Features
    Linux Environment
    Logging in, Logging out
    The root user
    The command prompt
    BASH Scripts, alias synonyms
    Managing Linux userids
    Linux log files
    Editing; A quick look at vi
    Configuration Files
    File Permissions
    Using make
    Getting Out of a Fix
    Linux Releases
    File Systems
    File and Directory Navigation
    Copying Files
    Moving Files
    Scheduling with cron
    z/VM Hosting
    TCP/IP Configuration on z/VM
    Exploiting z/VM and zSeries Features for Linux
    Connectivity
    Networking (OSA Express, HiperSockets)
    Virtual networking (IUCV, CTCA, Guest LAN, Virtual Switch)
    Network security issues
    Perl
    Email: sendmail, qmail
    Web serving: Apache
    File and Print serving: Samba
    File system sharing: NFS
    Network services monitoring: Hobbit
    Web application development: PHP, Mono

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