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z/OS Facilities
This classroom course introduces the base elements, optional features, and servers that are provided in z/OS. It focuses on the system service facilities that are provided by the z/OS Base Control...
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$4,750 USD
GSA
$3,190.18
Duration
4.5 days
Course Code
ES15G
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Course Eligible for IBM Digital Badge
Overview
This classroom course introduces the base elements, optional features, and servers that are provided in z/OS. It focuses on the system service facilities that are provided by the z/OS Base Control Program (BCP). It teaches the students the functions of major software base elements in the management of jobs, tasks, storage, data, and problems. It also addresses how these functions can be affected by the system programmer.
Students are introduced to the services provided by the servers which execute in the z/OS environments, such as the Communications Server and the Security Server. Installation packaging options and steps to install the z/OS environments also are introduced.
Skills Gained
- Describe the system initialization process of the z/OS operating systems
- State the differences between an address space, data space, and hyperspace
- Describe the process of translating a virtual address to a real address
- Explain the difference between paging and swapping
- Define a z/OS task
- Describe dispatching, interrupt processing, supervisor calls, cross memory services, and serialization
- Describe the purpose of the Job Entry Subsystem (JES)
- Illustrate the flow of a job through the z/OS environment
- Describe the allocation process for data sets in the z/OS environments
- Illustrate how an I/O request is processed in a z/OS environment
- Describe how workload management is accomplished in a z/OS environment
- Explain the z/OS recovery processes and list available Problem Determination Tools
- Describe z/OS storage management concepts
- Describe the UNIX System Services functions provided in the z/OS environments
- Explain the network topologies and protocol support provided in z/OS
- Describe system security and network security for a z/OS environment
- Create a high-level plan for the installation and configuration of a z/OS environment
Who Can Benefit
This class is designed for persons who are new to the z/OS platforms but have a technical background in information technology. It is intended for those who require an in-depth understanding of z/OS.
Prerequisites
You should have a basic knowledge of IS technologies and also should be familiar with z/OS concepts and how these systems support the Enterprise servers. This knowledge can be obtained by attending An Introduction to the z/OS Environment (ES050). Youd should also have practical experience with logging on to TSO and working with JCL. This experience can be obtained by attending z/OS Quick Start (ES10A)
Course Details
Day 1
- Unit 1: z/OS overview
- Including welcome and course overview
- Unit 2: Storage management
Day 2
- Unit 3: Managing work
- Unit 4: Input/output processing
Day 3
- Unit 4: Input/output processing (continued)
- Unit 5: Data management
- Unit 6: Job management
Day 4
- Unit 7: IPL and system initialization
- Unit 8: Termination and recovery analysis
- Unit 9: Installing and configuring
Day 5
- Unit 10: Communicating
- Unit 11: Security in z/OS
- Including end-of-course summary
Schedule
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Oct 6, 2025 - Oct 10, 2025 (5 days)
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Reviews
Overall experiance is very nice. the online training plateform is very advance.
Instructor knew her stuff. Long time in the industry. Course was easy to follow and very informative.
The class was very vast paced however the teacher was very good at checking in on us while giving us time to complete the labs.
Although there seemed to be too many links for the course, everything worked smoothly.
Very good couse and again we would like to see more videos on removing FRUs
