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PT5540
Training Summary
Students who complete this course will be able to describe the characteristics of modern IBM mainframes, including general hardware components and concepts and terminology used in z/OS, the IBM 64-bit mainframe operating system.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have a technical background in computers.
Duration
1 Day/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is designed for technical people with MVS or OS/390 backgrounds who need a quick update on changes introduced by zArchitecture hardware and z/OS software, or technical people with non-IBM-mainframe backgrounds who need a quick introduction to modern IBM mainframe terminology and capabilities. This includes a brief look at the zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12 for short) series and the zBX BladeCenter Extension.
Course Topics
z/Architecture - hardware
- z/OS - software
- Describing data
- Tape layout
- DASD organization
- TSO/ISPF role and concepts
- ISPF changes overview
- CLIST, REXX, and Dialog Manager
- SMS - System Manged Storage
- Unicode - an introduction
- DB2 - the IBM relational data base system
- Transaction monitors: CICS, IMS
- The Role of MQSeries
- Languages / Language Environment
- Assembler changes
- Enterprise COBOL
- Enterprise PL/I
- C/C++ for z/OS
- The Binder
- Sending emails and text messages
- z/OS UNIX
- z/OS.e and zNALC