Introduction to z/OS UNIX

Course Number:  595-JK
Recommended Duration:  3 days

Intended Audience
Programmers experienced with working in an OS/390 or z/OS environment who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run using z/OS UNIX.

Course Overview
Students learn to use UNIX System Services running under z/OS.  There are 18 hands-on exercises, as well as a number of structured computer experiments.

Objectives
Benefits Students who complete this course will be able to use many of the capabilities of UNIX System Services running under z/OS.  This is an intense, practical encounter with the UNIX world as implemented on the z/OS platform.

Prerequisites
At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong background in using TSO/ISPF under OS/390 or z/OS.

Topics

• Introduction to z/OS UNIX

• IDs and profiles

• Shell commands

• The OMVS interface

• Environment variables

• The Hierarchical File System (HFS)

• File permissions

• File copying and moving

• Displaying, editing, and browsing data in the HFS

• Piping and redirection

• ISHELL facility

• Introduction to UNICODE

• Locales and Internationalization

• Compressing, uncompressing, archiving and unarchiving HFS data

• Introduction to the Web - Web servers on z/OS

• Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML, XML)

• Creating and maintaining Web pages on the mainframe

• Accessing HFS files through batch jobs

• Accessing z/OS UNIX via telnet