This course is designed to teach you 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 BookManager.
Audience
This basic course is for IT personnel with a theoretical background of z/OS (for example, as taught in An Introduction to the z/OS Environment (ES05G) and some general practical IT experience.
Objectives
Unit 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
Unit 2: z/OS security
Topic 1: System security
Topic 2: RACF
Topic 3: RACF profiles
Unit 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
Unit 4: TSO commands
Topic 1: TSO ISPF commands
Topic 2: Edit data sets using line commands
Exercise 7: Using TSO/E commands
Unit 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
Unit 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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