System i: Overview

Course Overview

The iSeries can be described as a well-established system, and a leading edge server. In this one day seminar, we look at the design of the iSeries and it's operating system, OS/400, and find out just what it is that makes the iSeries so special.

Audience

This course is suitable for all staff within a company, including management, either planning to install an iSeries or who have an iSeries already installed.

Skills Gained

This course will enable delegates to:

• Describe the major components of the iSeries hardware and its architecture.
• Describe the major components of the operating system, OS/400.
• Describe the application development environment on the iSeries.
• Describe the major licensed programs on the iSeries, and their purpose.
• Describe the security on the iSeries.

Prerequisites

This course is intended for end users, managers and IT staff with no previous experience of the iSeries. No previous experience of data processing is expected, although delegates should be computer literate

Course Outline

• AS/400 architecture and hardware
• The operating system, OS/400
• File systems on the AS/400
• Data management and the database
• The user interface
• System support
• Job and printer control
• Programming languages
• Security, user profiles and authorities
• Communications and networking
• Client Access Express
• Operations Navigator
• Printing and file transfer
• Network drives
• Query
• Domino on the AS/400
• Internet and Net.Commerce
• Optical libraries and Callpath
• Data Warehousing on the AS/400