AUDIENCE:   This course is designed for Systems programmers, operations analysts or anyone responsible for maintaining and building ICF catalogs. PREREQUISITES:   The participant should have knowledge of the z/OS environment along with experience with JCL and VSAM datasets. DURATION:   3 Days. APPROACH:   This class is taught by lecture with hands-on workshops. OBJECTIVES:   After taking this course the student should be able to: Define the structure and function of an ICF catalog Create and maintain ICF catalogs Understand the associations between the differing VVDS and BCS records Identify and determine an error in a catalog structure Define procedures to diagnose, backup and recover catalog, whilst ensuring a high level of system availability COURSE CONTENT:   ICF INTRODUCTION CATALOG STRUCTURE CATALOG TOOLS EFINING, MAINTAINING AND DELETING CATALOGS BACKUP AND RECOVERY OF ICF CATALOGS UNDERSTANDING CATALOG AND DATA ERRORS OVERVIEW OF CATALOG ADDRESS SPACE   HW/08