Fundamental System Skills in z/OS

This course is designed to teach students 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.

You should complete:

· An Introduction to the z/OS Environment(ES05) or equivalent on-the-job training

· 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) via 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

The intended audience for this class is IT personnel with a theoretical background of z/OS (for example, as taught in ES05) and some general practical IS experience.

This course consists of a mixture of theoretical and practical sections.

The major objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the everyday activities involved in working in a z/OS environment. Therefore, the main focus is on the class exercises.

This course teaches:

•How to log on to the z/OS system.

•How to work with TSO/E, ISPF/PDF, and the UNIX System Services shell.

•How to create, copy, rename, and delete z/OS data sets.

•How to work with UNIX System Services files.

•How to execute CLISTs and REXX execs.

•How to submit jobs for execution and view the output online.

Day 1

• Unit 1 - Review of ESA/390 and z/Architecture and z/OS
• Unit 2 - An Introduction to ISPF, ISPF/PDF, and RACF
• Unit 3 - Working with ISPF/PDF(Part 1) 

Day 2

• Unit 3 - Working with ISPF/PDF(Part 2) 

Day 3

• Unit 4 : TSO Commands
• Unit 5 Working with JCL (continued)

Day 4

• Review
• Unit 6 UNIX system Services (part 1)

Day 5

• Unit 6 UNIX system (Part 2)
• Review and close out