Introduction to z/OS - Topical Outline

z/Architecture - A hardware overview

zSeries

CPC - Central Processor Complex

I/O Channels

PR/SM, LPARs, and Sysplex

zBX

Tapes and Disk

z/OS - A software overview

Large numbers

The Road to z/OS

z/OS Workloads

Capacity utilization

Workload manager

z/OS Workloads

Tuning

z/OS Fundamentals

Data management terms

Data organizations

Sequential data set

VTOC

Partioned Data Set (PDS)

Catalog

PDSE

The UNIX File model: the Hierarchical File System (HFS)

Batch

JCL

TSO/ISPF

CLIST and REXX

Dialog manager

SMS - System Managed Storage

Unicode

What is Unicode?

z/OS support for Unicode

DB2 - IBM's Premier relational data base

The Basics

Indexes

DB2 Architecture

Embedded SQL

Components

DB2 UDB

Transaction monitors

CICS/TS

IMS

The role of MQSeries

Languages

Common threads

Language Environment (LE)

Assembler

Enterprise COBOL

Enterprise PL/I

C/C++

The program binder

z/OS and UNIX System Services

TSO User ID

Profiles

UNIX User ID

z/OS UNIX - The shell interface under OMVS

Things you can do under z/OS UNIX

Standard commands and utilities

Compile / assemble / bind

HTTP sever - host web site

Use sed file to convert flat file to HTML

Use sendmail and ftp

Code / compile / run Java

WebSphere

Sending notes, e-mails, and text messages

Communications possibilities

Sending emails from a batch job

Sending text messages from a batch job to a cell phone

SMTP notes

Communications possibilities conclusion

Conclusion

z/OS.e and zNALC

Final thoughts

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