z/OS Basic Operations

Prerequisites:

Delegates should have an understanding of the z/OS operating system which may be obtained from the course z/OS for Beginners and be familiar with TSO/ISPF which may be obtained from the TSO/ISPF Workshop.

Course Description:

This course is suitable for new operators, operations support staff and systems programmers who are responsible for monitoring and controlling the z/OS operating system and subsystems within their installation.

After completing this course, the delegate will be able to:

• View the SYSLOG and MCS consoles understanding the general format of displayed messages
• Use SDSF and the standard console services to enter commands and interpret associated responses
• Monitor and control:
• devices under control of z/OS
• the jobs within the system
• the status of the z/OS system and associated subsystems
• Start and stop the system

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction to Operating z/OS

• The role of the operator within the installation
• An overview of operator communications
• Operating concepts within LPARs and within a SYSPLEX

General Systems Monitoring

• Displaying z/OS environmental information
• Displaying JES2 environmental information

Console Management

• The K S command
• The D C command
• Console recovery commands
• Consoles and PFKs
• Controlling Display Areas

Device Control

• Software status of devices
• System managed and non-system managed volumes
• Monitoring and changing the status of
• SMS storage groups
• SMS volumes
• MVS volumes
• hardware status of devices

Controlling Work within z/OS

• Controlling JES2 initiators and classes
• JES2 and the Workload Manager
• Using SDSF
• Displaying and cancelling jobs
• Controlling printer output and print classes

Controlling Subsystems within z/OS

• Started tasks
• UNIX services
• VTAM and TCP/IP
• TSO
• CICS and DB2

Starting and Stopping the System

• IPLing the system
• The HMC and NIP console
• DASD device issues at IPL time
• The LOADxx member of parmlib
• Closing down the system