Mainframe school training courses in Dallas, TX (public, in-house or online)

This is an intermediate course for experienced data professionals, such as z/OS system programmers, who install and maintain z/OS UNIX System Services.


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Prepare a z/OS installation for implemention of z/OS UNIX
Install the z/OS UNIX software features
Perform the customization steps to implement the z/OS UNIX kernel, the file system, the shell and utilities, and z/OS U...

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This is an intermediate course intended for operators and technical individuals, who install, operate, and provide system support and software support in a zSeries Parallel Sysplex environment.



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Identify Parallel Sysplex hardware and software requirements and components
Identify the coupling facility connectivity options and requirements for zSeries and S/...

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Learn about z/OS security services. Along with lectures on the z/OS security services, study scenarios that require increasing levels of security, from a public Web server to an Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) enabled Web server with digital certificates. In the hands-on exercises, you begin with your own Web server in the TCP/IP environment. Make changes to the Web server’s configuration and other system files to activate the authentication of Web users via Resource Access Control Facility (RAC...

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Learn how to operate the Hardware Management Console (HMC) on zSeries or S/390 9672/9674 Central Processing Complexes (CPC). Learn setup and in-depth operating procedures for the zSeries and 9672/9674 HMC. Hands-on lab projects may be done in teams depending on the number of attendees and location.

Note: For onsite classes, you must provide the lab environment on a zSeries or 9672, including the use of at least one HMC (two preferred), and stand-alone use of either one zSeries or 9672 CP...

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Learn how to use z/OS or OS/390 Job Control Language (JCL) and selected utility programs in an online batch environment. Both Storage Management Subsystem (SMS) and non-SMS JCL are discussed.

Hands-On Labs

Six labs are included to address multistep jobs; reading and printing instream data; temporary data sets; use of IEHLIST utility; use of IEBGENER utility; use of IEBCOPY, JCL procedures; creating SMS and non-SMS data sets including, Partitioned Data Set (PDS), Partitioned Data Se...

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