About Course
This course is designed to teach you the fundamental practical skills to navigate and work in a z OS environment This includes the use of ISPF PDF dialogs TSO E commands JCL UNIX System Services shell and BookManager This basic course is for IT personnel with a theoretical background of z OS for example as taught in An Introduction to the z OS Environment ES05G and some general practical IT experience Review the main concepts of z OS Log on to TSO and start ISPF PDF Navigate through ISPF PDF dialogs and use the basic ISPF PDF functions and the ISPF Editor Use ISPF PDF to allocate data sets and edit data sets including hierarchical file system HFS files using the ISPF Editor primary and line commands Use ISPF to create and manipulate copy rename delete list sort and merge data sets Identify security considerations for Multiple Virtual Storage MVS data sets and HFS files Describe and use TSO E commands Perform simple modifications to existing ISPF PDF panels Invoke a REXX exec and TSO CLIST Tailor existing JCL and submit batch jobs Review job status and job output using SDSF Invoke UNIX processes Manipulate HFS directories and file systems using the UNIX System Services ISHELL You should complete An Introduction to the z OS Environment ES050 or equivalent on the job training IBM Z Systems and Mainframe z OS Operators Engineers Security Cloud System Administration Operating System
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- Course Outline
Unit 1: Introduction to the IBM Z Systems environment
Topic 1: Architecture in the z Systems environment
Topic 2: Operating systems
Topic 3: IBM z Systems
Unit 2: z/OS security
Topic 1: System security
Topic 2: RACF
Topic 3: RACF profiles
Unit 3: TSO ISPF panel
Topic 1: TSO familiarization
Exercise 1: System familiarization
Topic 2: Introduction to z/OS data set
Topic 3: Allocating data sets
Exercise 2: Allocate new data sets
Topic 4: Creating data sets and members
Topic 5: Edit data sets
Topic 6: Line commands
Topic 7: Copy, move, rename, and delete data sets and members
Exercise 3: ISPF editor primary commands
Exercise 4: ISPF editor Line commands
Exercise 5: Copy, move, rename, and delete data sets and members
Topic 8: Data set lists
Exercise 6: Data set lists
Unit 4: TSO commands
Topic 1: TSO ISPF commands
Topic 2: Edit data sets using line commands
Exercise 7: Using TSO/E commands
Unit 5: JES and JCL
Topic 1: Introduction to JES and JCL
Topic 2: Coding JCL
Topic 3: Submitting jobs using JCL
Topic 4: JCL utilities
Topic 5: Managing data sets using JCL)
Exercise 8: Submit a job
Exercise 9: JCL exercises
Exercise 10: Procedures
Unit 6: UNIX
Topic 1: UNIX system services
Topic 2: File systems
Topic 3: UNIX program support and security
Topic 4: Application services
Topic 5: Security
Exercise 11: ISHELL and hierarchical file system