Course Description

Introduction to z/OS UNIX

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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to use many of the capabilities of UNIX System Services running under z/OS. This is an intense, practical encounter with the UNIX world as implemented on the z/OS platform.

Audience

Programmers experienced with working in an OS/390 or  z/OS environment who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run using z/OS UNIX.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong background in using TSO/ISPF under  OS/390 or z/OS.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from this and other IBM manuals; access to this publication in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SA22-7801 - USS User's Guide
SA22-7802 - USS Command Reference

• Introduction to z/OS UNIX
• IDs and profiles
• Shell commands
• The OMVS interface
• Environment variables
• The Hierarchical File System (HFS)
• File permissions
• File copying and moving
• Displaying, editing, and browsing data in the HFS
• Piping and redirection
• ISHELL facility
• Introduction to UNICODE
• Locales and Internationalization
• Compressing, uncompressing, archiving and unarchiving HFS data
• Introduction to the Web - Web servers on z/OS
• Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML, XML)
• Creating and maintaining Web pages on the mainframe
• Accessing HFS files through batch jobs
• Submiting batch jobs from the shell
• Accessing z/OS UNIX via telnet
• The UDList utility (ISPF 3.17)

Exercises

There are 19 hands-on exercises, as well as a number of structured Computer Experiments.