Introduction to z/OS

Course Number:  620-TF
Recommended Duration:  1 day

Intended Audience
Technical people with MVS or OS/390 backgrounds who need a quick update on changes introduced by zArchitecture hardware and z/OS software.  Or technical people with non-IBM-mainframe backgrounds who need a quick introduction to modern IBM mainframe terminology and capabilities.

Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to describe the characteristics of modern IBM mainframes, including general hardware components and concepts and terminology used in z/OS, the IBM 64-bit mainframe operating system.

Prerequisites:  Technical background in computers.

Topics

• z/Architecture - hardware

• z/OS - software

• Describing data

• Tape layout

• DASD organization

• TSO/ISPF role and concepts

• ISPF changes overview

• CLIST, REXX, and Dialog Manager

• SMS - System Manged Storage

• Unicode - an introduction

• DB2 - the IBM relational data base system

• Transaction monitors: CICS, IMS

• The Role of MQSeries

• Languages / Language Environment

• Assembler changes

• Enterprise COBOL

• Enterprise PL/I

• C/C++ for z/OS

• The Binder

• Sending emails and text messages

• z/OS UNIX

• z/OS.e and zNALC