BMC Mainframe: IBM Z Systems Environment - Introduced & Explained
The course is developed and delivered by © RSM Technology.
This two-day course is the essential introduction to Z Systems - IBM's mainframe-based enterprise computing environments, and to IBM's flagship operating system, z/OS.
The course introduces the concepts and terminology that are encountered and used by IS personnel every day and explains them in an easily understandable manner.
This course provides a firm foundation for anyone moving into the world of IBM Z Systems mainframe- based computing.
Major release:
BMC Mainframe Infrastructure Platform Training
Good for:
Users
Course Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training (ILT) | 16 hours
Course Modules
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The Mainframe Computer
- Origins
- Types of computers
- General purpose
- Scientific
- Scientific AND general purpose?
- The PC
- The Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- The application development backlog
- The Local Area Network (LAN)
- Who runs the distributed data center?
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Today's real world
- What is a mainframe?
- What can it do?
- Hardware and software
- Types of computing
- Batch
- Batch processing today
- Interactive
- On-line
- Real time
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Enterprise Computing Hardware
- Enterprise computing hardware
- An IBM mainframe computer room and its contents
- The processor complex
- Parallel sysplex
- Logical partitions
- Channels; Controllers
- I/O units
- Addressing
- Local and remote
- Disk storage
- Old technology
- Storing data on a traditional disk
- The cylinder concept
- Sectors
- Cache storage
- RAID - a newer technology
- Disk Mirroring (RAID-1)
- Data Striping (RAID 5/6)
- Remote Disk copy
- Virtual disks
- Why magnetic tape?
- Tape cartridges
- High performance tapes
- Automated Tape Libraries
- Virtual Tape Servers
- Other Input/output peripherals
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Z Systems Programs
- Static Enterprise computing hardware
- What is software?
- Types of software
- System software
- Exits
- Application software
- What does a program comprise?
- Main module
- Subroutines and procedures
- Functions
- Data
- EBCDIC
- ASCII
- Building a program
- Programming languages
- Executing a program
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Z Enterprise Organization
- Who runs the IT environment?
- Operators
- Help Desk Operatives
- Security Administrators
- Systems Programmers
- Storage Administrators
- Network Analysts
- Application Developers/Support
- Database Administrators
- Who runs the IT environment?
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The Z Systems' Operating Systems
- Z Systems operating systems
- z/OS operating systems
- zVM operating systems
- z/VSE operating systems
- Linux operating systems
- z/TPF operating systems
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z/OS Operating System
- The z/OS operating system
- Some important definitions
- Address spaces
- Common area
- Private area
- Main components of MVS
- MVS processing environments
- On-line
- TSO
- z/OS communications server
- VTAM
- TCP/IP
- JES2
- Transaction Servers:
- CICS
- IMS
- Databases:
- Db2
- IMS
- UNIX System Services
- WebSphere Application Server
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Numbering Systems
- Numbering systems
- Decimal arithmetic
- Binary arithmetic
- Binary subtraction
- Negative binary numbers
- 2's complement
- Hexadecimal arithmetic
- Hexadecimal/binary relationship
- Extended Binary Coded Decimal
- Interchange Code
- Packed decimal numbers
- Memory addressing