z/OS JCL Workshop Part 1 - Foundation Skills [TM]

This course is essential for all those working in technical roles within a z/OS environment. The course teaches the coding of job control statements to execute programs and access datasets, as well as how to write and test cataloged procedures. The course combines classroom tuition with practical exercises using various IBM utilities.  

3 Days

Hands-On

$2100

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• z/OS: Structure & Components
• Introduction to z/OS Job Control Language
• The JOB Statement
• The EXEC Statement
• Printing & In-stream Data
• The DD Statement
• The DD Statement - Working with Datasets
• Further DD Considerations
• Procedures
• Conditional JCL Statements
• Common MVS Abend Codes

• 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 

The ability to use TSO/ISPF and a basic knowledge of z/OS and its file structure

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When system problems occur companies often automatically send the dumps to IBM, without looking at them first. However, as we all know, z/OS today is almost invariably a multi-vendor software environment. 

This course teaches you the vital (yet simple) techniques that will quickly extract maximum information from the diagnostic data. This lets you identify the vendor product responsible for the problem, and ultimately verify their diagnosis of the problem. 

This course describes and explains what can go wrong in an IBM z Systems environment, and what you can do about it as an operator or systems programmer. It looks at failure situations from many points of view, including hardware problems and the software environment. 

The software environment is further examined by looking at the Recovery Termination Manager (RTM) - the 'cleaning-up' function of z/OS - and its ABEND-concept. All the different reports that come out of a z/OS system in conjunction with failures (messages, dumps, traces, etc.) are also discussed. The most common reasons for system ABENDs (and how you can analyze the information coming out of the system when they occur) are also covered.

 3 Days

Hands-On

$2,450

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• Interactive Problem Control System
• Recovery & Termination
• Request Block Analysis
• SVC Dump Analysis Approach
• Multi-Processor Environments
• Locks
• Dispatcher
• Address Space Control
• SAD Analysis Approach
• Input/Output Supervisor
• Real Storage Manager
• Auxiliary Storage Manager

• Identify which software component caused the problem 
• Identify the vendor responsible for the problem
• Extract the most relevant diagnostic information in the minimum time
• Use the appropriate diagnostic procedure for each type of dump 
• Identify the failing operating system component in standalone and SVC dumps
• Use various operating system data-gathering facilities such as system traces, LOGREC, and SLIP.
• Locate information in various manuals that is critical to problem resolution.
• Develop a methodology to speedily extract the required information for resolving a problem situation.

To benefit from this course, participants need both the ability to read Assembler code and familiarity with z/OS internal operations and data areas (including the concept of control block chaining). These prerequisites can be met by completing the courses Using z/OS Assembler [AS], z/OS System Fundamentals Part 1 [MSF1] & z/OS System Fundamentals Part 2 [MSF2].

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