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This course provides the skills required to plan and implement Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem DFSMS A step by step implementation strategy emphasizing coexistence considerations is reinforced by hands on labs In the hands on labs students will be creating constructs as well as coding ACS routines This milestone approach includes managing temporary and permanent data sets The course also discusses exploitation of functions provided by DFSMS as the installation evolves to the DFSMS environment This is an intermediate course is for personnel responsible for developing and implementing effective storage management techniques using DFSMS Establish a DFSMS configuration to automatically enforce your installation s storage management policies Convert service level requirements into appropriate parameters for data class storage class management class and storage groups Create and test automatic class selection ACS routines Convert volumes and move data to system managed volumes with data facility data set services DFSMSdss Specify appropriate management class and storage group parameters for DFSMShsm processing of system managed data sets Establish procedures to control manage and recover the storage management subsystem with ISMF and operator commands Develop a DFSMS implementation plan You should take the following courses or equivalent knowledge may be substituted for these courses Introduction to Storage SS01G It is recommended that the student have programming experience which will aid in the writing of the ACS routines IBM Spectrum Protect Scale Systems Storage XIV DFSMS
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Who Can Benefit
- Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1 - Course introduction and DFSMS overview Lab 1 - ISMF
- Lab 1 - Review
- Unit 2 - Activating SMS
- Day 2
- Lab 2 - Activating SMS with minimal configuration
- Lab 2 - Review
- Unit 3 - Writing ACS routines
- Unit 4 - Managing temporary data sets
- Lab 3 - Managing temporary data sets
- Day 3
- Lab 3 - Review
- Unit 5 - Exploiting DFSMS
- Unit 6 - Managing permanent data sets
- Lab 4 - Managing permanent data sets
- Day 4
- Lab 4 - Review
- Unit 7 - Using NaviQuest
- Unit 8 - Device preparation and data movement
- Lab 5 - Volume and data set conversion to SMS
- Lab 5 - Review
- Unit 9 - Controlling DFSMS
- Lab 6 - System operations
- Unit 10 - Additional considerations