Recommended Duration: 1 Day

Benefits:  Students who complete this course will be able to describe the characteristics of modern IBM mainframes, including general hardware components and concepts and terminology used in z/OS, the IBM 64-bit mainframe          operating system.

Audience:  Technical people with MVS or OS/390 backgrounds who need a quick update on changes introduced by zArchitecture hardware and z/OS software. Or technical people with non-IBM-mainframe backgrounds who need a quick introduction to modern IBM mainframe terminology and capabilities. This includes a brief look at the zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12 for short) series and the zBX BladeCenter Extension.

Prerequisites:  Technical background in computers.