AUDIENCE:   Course is designed for operators who are new to the z/OS operating system. This course is also useful to analysts, managers, and programmers who may be unfamiliar with this operating system. PREREQUISITES:   Basic understanding of operating systems is helpful but not required. DURATION:   4 Days. APPROACH:   This class is taught by lecture and hands on workshops. OBJECTIVES:   After taking this course the student should be able to: To provide better operator service for the installation. To improve throughput and machine response time. To reduce operator downtime. To develop existing skills and build up levels of expertise which increase the operators ability to resolve problems. Understand present and future environment enhancements in order to enable our customers to grow with Technology. COURSE CONTENT:   DAY 1- GENERAL z/OS INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Introduction History Leading into z/OS Paging vs. Real Storage System Product Levels Development and Enhancement of each level. Including: ESCON Technology Evolution of ESCON Enterprise System Connection Features of ESCON Multiple Image Facility ESCON managers, Analyzers, and Monitoring Parallel SYSPLEX and Data Sharing Cache Device Sharing Operation Enhancements I/S Productivity Enhancements Multiple Systems Management Performance Capacity Improvements Availability vs. Downtime Running Concurrent MVS Levels Hardware Configuration Definition Lock Managers z/OS Resources CPU Storage I/O Swapping Performance Group Numbers Types of Processors Uni Multi Dyadic Triadic Quadratic Processor Environments Loosely Coupled Tightly Coupled Central Processing Unit (CPU) Program Status Word (PSW) Hardware General Registers Floating Point Registers Prefix Registers Clock Comparator and CPU Timer Control Registers Interrupts Machine Check Program Check I/O Supervisor Calls Restart External Multiprogramming PSW and Interrupts Interfacing I/O Channel Subsystem CHIPIDS Addressing Frames Slots Pages Types of Addresses ESA - OS/390 - z/OS What's the difference! Breakdown of the PSW Display DAY 2 - z/OS COMMANDS, INTRODUCTION TO VTAM AND VTAM COMMANDS Basic MVS Commands Cancel, Config, Console Set-up, Force, Display, Modify, Swap, Clear, List, Mount, Monitor, Quiesce, Start, Send, Set, Vary, Unload, and Halt Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM) Advanced Communication Function (ACF) Interfacing (MVS-VTAM-NCP) Overview of Communications Controller (37xx) Network Control Program (NCP) Functions Partition Emulation Program (PEP) JES2 Remote Job Entry (RJE) Lines Network Job Entry (NJE) Lines System Network Architecture (SNA) Application Switching End User to End User Communications (Sessions) Subareas Domains Cross Domains Logical Units (LUs) Physical Units (PUs) Synchronous Datalink Control (SDLC) PU Types Primary & Secondary Stations Basic VTAM Commands Display Lines/Controllers/Terminals Major Nodes Vary Inactive/Active Lines/Controllers/Terminals Major Nodes Startup and Shutdown Loading NCP DAY 3 - CICS OVERVIEW, CICS COMMANDS AND VTAM/CICS WORKSHOP Customer Information Control System (CICS) Review of Components Tables Programs Transactions Tasks Data Dump Data Sets Journal System Log Interfacing of Other Products Omegamon DADS DB2 Types of Startup Types of Shutdown Multiple Region Option (MRO) Basic CICS Commands (CEMT) Terminals In Service Out of Service Acquire/Release Switch of Dump Data Sets New Copy of Programs Terminating Transactions Disable Programs/Transactions Introduction to CICS  Transaction Server  Workshop (VTAM & CICS) Exercise 1 (CICS) Exercise 2 (VTAM & CICS) DAY 4 - JES2 OVERVIEW, BASIC JES2 COMMANDS AND z/OS/JES2 WORKSHOP JES2 and MVS Command Groups Relationship Basic JES2 Commands Chaining Multiple Commands Reader Control Initiators Printer Control Console Information JES2 Devices Reset JES2 Base Number Job Control Sending Messages Through JES2 Job Output Elements (OUTGRPS) JES2 Catastrophic Error Types of Startup Warm/Cold/Hot Types of Shutdown Saving of the Spool z/OS/JES2 Workshop Exercise 1 - JES2 Exercise 2 - z/OS/JES2 Shutdown & Restart (IPL) Includes MVS IPL Discussion   HW/08