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Mainframe Technical Environment for Auditors [MTSE]
OVERVIEW
This course has been designed and built for Auditors who come into contact (at any level) with IBM mainframe systems in their daily work. The course encompasses an overview of the z/OS mainframe computing environment, before focusing on the security implications of the environment, as relevant to auditors. Each stage of the course builds upon the previous one, enabling attendees to consolidate what has been learned and see how it will apply to their daily work.
COURSE DURATION
5 Days
Hands-On
Private -Only
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COURSE SYNOPSIS
- Introduction to Mainframe Enterprise Computing
- z/OS Software Components
- The TSO Environment
- Understanding the Batch Environment
- z/OS Security Overview
- z/OS RACF Components
- RACF Utilities
- UNIX Systems Services Overview
- CICS & IMS Overview
- DB2 for z/OS Overview
- CA-ACF/2 & CA-Top Secret - Security Overview
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Understand the audit issues relating to configuration
- Understand the audit issues relating to TSO
- Understand the audit issues relating to Batch
- Understand the audit issues relating to z/OS
- Understand the implications of using RACF utilities & exits
- Understand the DSMON output.
PREREQUISITES
Exposure to the technical computing environment at their organization.
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Boot Camp: z/OS Foundation Skills [MFBC]
OVERVIEW
This five-day Boot Camp course is the essential introduction to IBM's mainframe-based enterprise computing environment and its flagship operating system, z/OS. It introduces the concepts and terminology encountered and used by IS personnel every day, and explains them in an easily understandable manner.The concepts, facilities and use of TSO and IBM's Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) is taught during this week, with a focus on its functions for data editing and data set management. The week concludes with JCL. It teaches the coding of job control statements to execute programs and access data sets in a z/OS environment. Demonstrates how to write and test catalogued procedures
COURSE DURATION & PRICE
5 Days
Hands-On
$3395
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COURSE SYNOPSIS
- The IBZ z Systems Technical Environment
- Enterprise Computing Hardware
- Z Systems Software and Programs
- Practical Operations
- z/OS Operating System
- Introduction to TSO
- Basic TSO Commands
- Introduction to ISPF
- Browsing data sets in ISPF
- Basic Edit via ISPF
- The ISPF Edit profile
- Advanced Edit with ISPF
- Basic ISPF utilities
- ISPF Data Set List Utility
- SuperC and Search-For
- z/OS: Structure and Components
- Introduction to z/OS JCL
- The JOB Statement
- The EXEC Statement
- Printing and In-stream Data
- The DD Statement
- The DD Statement - Working with Data Sets
- Further DD Considerations
- Catalogued Procedures
- Conditional JCL Statements
- Common MVS Abend Codes
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Identify the principal components of IBM mainframe systems
- Describe how data is stored, the different data codes and types, and the devices used
- Explain the concepts of operating systems
- Use basic TSO commands
- Use and customize ISPF panel structures
- Browse and edit data sets
- Customize ISPF edit profiles
- Use advanced edit functions
- Submit and manage batch jobs
- Use the ISPF utilities such as copy and list
- Use search facilities
- State the purpose of each z/OS job control statement
- Code JCL statements to access disk and cartridge files
- Describe and use the commonly used parameters
- Correct syntax errors in JCL statements
- Code in-stream procedures and override, nullify and add parameters
- Appreciate the implications of SMS when using z/OS JCL
PREREQUISITES
None
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