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z/OS System Services Structure

IBM

About this Course

This course presents the structure and control blocks of the z/OS BCP and system services. It prepares the new z/OS system programmer to identify potential bottlenecks and performance problems, perform initial error symptom gathering, and identify opportunities and requirements for tailoring an z/OS system. This course also provides prerequisite information needed for further training in specialized areas such as system measurement and tuning and system problem determination.

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Intermediate Level

z/OS BCP (MVS)

SVCs

I/O

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

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Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Intermediate Level

z/OS BCP (MVS)

SVCs

I/O

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

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Instructor

Jeff Bisti

IBM Z Ecosystem Architect

IBM Systems

26,742 Learners

6 Courses

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Introduction

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 15 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Operating environment initialization

1 hour to complete

5 videos (Total 28 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week3

Week 3

1 hour to complete

Task Management

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 24 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Addressability

z/OS and IBM z System provide the architectural foundation that allows greater flexibility and more design options in the development of application programs with needs that extend beyond the boundaries of a single address space.This unit examines the hardware and software facilities that enable a program to interact with other programs executing in other address spaces and use data in data spaces.

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 20 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week5

Week 5

1 hour to complete

Input/Output Supervisor

One of the primary functions of any computing system is the processing of data. Much of the data that is processed exists external to processor storage; that is, it might be out on a tape or DASD volume or it might be entered from a terminal. The handling of data requires the services of both software and hardware (channel subsystem and the devices attached to it).Understanding the roles of software and hardware in handling I/O requests is necessary for determining how to configure the hardware, how to tune the I/O configuration, and in analyzing I/O-related problems.

1 hour to complete

10 videos (Total 57 min)

Week6

Week 6

2 hours to complete

Storage Management

One of the major resources available to the users of an z/OS system is storage. Programs executing in the system, whether user applications or z/OS system routines, are vying for storage. Each of the areas of storage, however, is a limited resource, and use and availability must be managed to maintain program integrity. This managing of storage in z/OS is handled by three storage managers, virtual, real, and auxiliary.

2 hours to complete

18 videos (Total 79 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

18 videos

Address Spaces Part 15mAddress Spaces Part 25m64 Bit Addressing4mThe DAT3mAddress Space Review4mStorage Requests4m64 Bit Support4mSubpools3mData Spaces and Hiperspaces4mPaging3mFlash Storage4mParallel Sysplex Part 15mParallel Sysplex Part II5mParallel Sysplex Configurations2mCoupling Facility Options2mDuplexing5mCoupling Facility Structures3mCF Operations5m

1 reading

Creating Data Spaces10m

1 practice exercise

Storage Management Quiz30m

Week7

Week 7

2 hours to complete

Recovery termination manager

The resolution of errors often requires the analysis of information produced at the time of the failure. The responsibility of the recovery termination manager (RTM) is to gather the failure indications, interface with system and application error recovery routines, and to generate the failure documentation.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 24 min)

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