SUMMARY:   Focus on building the skills you need to manage your z/Virtual Storage Extended (z/VSE) environment. Gain the detailed technical understanding and experience critical to maintaining, supporting, and tuning your z/VSE system. The workshop features hands-on lab exercises that reinforce the information presented in the lectures. AUDIENCE:   This specially tailored class is intended for experienced z/OS Technical Support staff requiring a more in-depth understanding of VSE and its subsystems, so that they can effectively support the z/VSE platform. PREREQUISITES:   Some experience installing, tailoring, and maintaining operating systems such as z/OS. DURATION:   5 Days with hands on lab exercises. OBJECTIVES:   Identify the architecture of key VSE components Diagnose and resolve VSE system and subsystem problems Use VSE debugging facilities Improve the overall performance of VSE systems Program 31-bit applications Implement data spaces and virtual disks COURSE CONTENT:   Review of the z Architecture VSE Operating Environments Basic mode, LPAR mode, VM Guest VSE Supervisor and Turbo-Dispatcher Hardware support Storage Organization Real and virtual storage Address spaces and partitions Shared areas Data spaces and virtual disks Libraries and files System and user libraries System and user datasets DASD organization Data Spaces and Virtual Disks POWER CICS VTAM TCP/IP for VSE Interactive User Interface ICCF and editors IPL and JCL procedures Types of consoles Master, CICS, hardware Operating the console Entering commands Scrolling Messages Explain support (Help) Managing the Hardcopy file IPL process z/VSE Supervisor and Internals 64 and 31 bit Programming z/VSE Installation and Tailoring z/VSE Debugging Tools z/VSE Performance and Tuning VSE/POWER Structure and Functions VSE/VTAM and CICS/VSE Problem Determination z/VSE Enhancements z/VSE Control Block Flow z/VSE I/O Handling z/VSE Error Recovery z/VSE Storage Management z/VSE Dispatcher/Task selection CICS/ICCF Restructuring HW/09