ICF Catalog Management Workshop

Audience

This course is for Storage administrators, systems programmers, operations analysts or anyone responsible for building, managing and maintaining ICF catalogs.

Prerequisites

The participant should have knowledge of the z/OS environment, along with experience with JCL and VSAM datasets.

Duration

3 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

After taking this course the student should be able to:

• Define the structure and function of an ICF catalog
• Create and maintain ICF catalogs
• Understand the associations between the differing VVDS and BCS records
• Identify and determine an error in a catalog structure
• Define procedures to diagnose, backup and recover catalog, whilst ensuring a high level of system availability.

Course Content