z/OS: Storage Management Fundamentals

Course Overview

The course covers all practical aspects of the storage administrators job, including media, space and data management. It looks at the tasks which need to be performed, and covers the theoretical background to ensure a proper understanding. Lab exercises are included to enforce the learning process.

Audience

This course is suitable for storage administrators and systems programmers who are responsible for managing data and data subsystems within the installation.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have an understanding of OS/390 which may be obtained from the course z/OS and OS/390 for Beginners and TSO/ISPF which may be obtained from the TSO/ISPF Workshop.

Course Outline

• The Storage Administrators Job
• Media, space and data administration
• Storage Management Software Products
• The Configuration and Devices
• I/O Processing and Access Methods
• The overall I/O process
• Access methods, data set organisation and record formats
• VTOC and Indexed VTOCs
• The VTOC and Indexed VTOC structure
• Sizing and creating VTOCs and Indexed VTOCs
• The Catalog Structure
• Creating Catalogs
• Catalog Maintenance
• An introduction to SMS
• DFSMShsm and Tape Managed Software
• HSM Startup parameters and control data sets
• Primary and secondary space management
• Daily and Interval migration
• Backup and dump processing
• HSM commands
• The Allocation Process
• Allocation - SMS and non-SMS
• Serialisation and shared DASD
• Error Management
• An overview of error management
• SIM and non-SIM processing

z/OS: Storage Management Fundamentals / SMSF (SMSFGB)