Mainframe System Administration

Course Overview:

Mainframe System Administration training in real time to understand the basic knowledge of Mainframe system administrator. Mainframe System Administration sub categories includes MVS system programmer, DB2 system programmer, Storage system programmer, CICS system programmer, Automation system programmer, Performance system programmer.

Course Content:

Introduction

♦ Basic understanding of mainframe systems

♦ Characteristics of mainframe systems

♦ Different processing(Online, Batch & TSO) in mainframe systems

Introduction to z architecture

♦ Evaluation of z architecture

♦ Basic z architecture

♦ Hardware & OS

♦ Mainframe Virtual Storage(VMS)

♦ Dynamic Address Translation(DAT)

♦ LPAR

TSO & ISPF

♦ Time-sharing option(TSO)

♦ Basics of Interactive System Productivity Facility(ISPF)

♦ Navigating to different ISPF options

♦ Different types of datasets used in mainframe

JCL & VSAM

♦ Coding a Job Control Language(JCL)

♦ Basic Utilities

♦ Different parameters used in the JCL

♦ Virtual Storage Access Method(VSAM)

♦ GDG

Catalogs

♦ Catalog types

♦ Master Catalog & User catalogs

♦ Create, List & Resizing catalog datasets

IPL

♦ Initial Program Load(IPL)

♦ Different startups in IPL

♦ SYStem RESident(SYSRES) Volumes

♦ IODF & IOCDS

♦ PARMLIB & PROCLIB

♦ Different subsystems

JES

♦ Job Entry Subsystem(JES)

♦ JES2PARM

♦ Start & stop of JES

♦ JES processing

Storage Management

♦ Basics of DASD & TAPE servers

♦ SMS

♦ Different CLASS parameters

♦ Storage Parmlib Member

♦ ADDRESS utility

SMF

♦ System Management Facility(SMF)

♦ SMF MAN datasets

♦ SMF Record types

♦ SMF dataset status

RMF

♦ Resource Management Facility(RMF)

♦ Different Monitoring

Other Subsystems

♦ TCPIP

♦ VTAM

♦ USS

RACF

♦ Resource Access Control Facility(RACF)

♦ Different Profiles

♦ Resource profiles

♦ SMP/E

♦ System Modification Program Enhanced(SMPE)

♦ Different installation packages

♦ Types of SYSMODs

♦ Different Zones

♦ Temporary datasets

DB2 Administration

♦ DataBase Administration(DB2)

♦ DB2 address spaces

♦ DB2 components

♦ Online & Offline Utilities

CICS Administration

♦ Basics of CICS transactions.