z/VSE-Fast Track for Technical Support Staff

Audience

This specially tailored class is intended for experienced z/OS Technical Support staff requiring a more in-depth understanding of VSE and its subsystems, so that they can effectively support the z/VSE platform.

Prerequisites

Some experience installing, tailoring, and maintaining operating systems such as z/OS.

Duration

5 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

Focus on building the skills you need to manage your z/Virtual Storage Extended (z/VSE) environment. Gain the detailed technical understanding and experience critical to maintaining, supporting, and tuning your z/VSE system. The workshop features hands-on lab exercises that reinforce the information presented in the lectures. Delegates attending will be able to:

• Identify the architecture of key VSE components
• Diagnose and resolve VSE system and subsystem problems
• Use VSE debugging facilities Improve the overall performance of VSE systems
• Program 31-bit applications
• Implement data spaces and virtual disks.

Course Content

Review of the z Architecture
VSE Operating Environments
Basic mode, LPAR mode, VM Guest
VSE Supervisor and Turbo-Dispatcher
Hardware support
Storage Organization
Real and virtual storage
Address spaces and partitions
Shared areas
Data spaces and virtual disks
Libraries and files
System and user libraries
System and user datasets
DASD organization
Data Spaces and Virtual Disks
POWER
CICS
VTAM
TCP/IP for VSE
Interactive User Interface
ICCF and editors
IPL and JCL procedures
Types of consoles
Master, CICS, hardware
Operating the console
Entering commands
Scrolling
Messages
Explain support (Help)
Managing the Hardcopy file
IPL process
z/VSE Supervisor and Internals
64 and 31 bit Programming
z/VSE Installation and Tailoring
z/VSE Debugging Tools
z/VSE Performance and Tuning
VSE/POWER Structure and Functions
VSE/VTAM and CICS/VSE Problem Determination
z/VSE Enhancements
z/VSE Control Block Flow
z/VSE I/O Handling
z/VSE Error Recovery
z/VSE Storage Management
z/VSE Dispatcher/Task selection
CICS/ICCF Restructuring
Practical Exercises