z/OS: 1.7 Operations

Audience

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.

Skills Gained

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.

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 Outline

• 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.