z/Architecture – A hardware overview

• zSeries
• CPC – Central Processor Complex
• I/O Channels
• PR/SM, LPARs, and Sysplex
• zBX
• Tapes and Disk

z/OS – A software overview

• Large numbers
• The Road to z/OS

z/OS Workloads

• Capacity utilization
• Workload manager
• z/OS Workloads
• Tuning

z/OS Fundamentals

• Data management terms
• Data organizations
• Sequential data set
• VTOC
• Partioned Data Set (PDS)
• Catalog
• PDSE
• The UNIX File model: the Hierarchical File System (HFS)
• Batch
• JCL
• TSO/ISPF
• CLIST and REXX
• Dialog manager
• SMS – System Managed Storage

Unicode

• What is Unicode?
• z/OS support for Unicode

DB2 – IBM’s Premier relational data base

• The Basics
• Indexes
• DB2 Architecture
• Embedded SQL
• Components
• DB2 UDB

Transaction monitors

• CICS/TS
• IMS
• The role of MQSeries

Languages

• Common threads
• Language Environment (LE)
• Assembler
• Enterprise COBOL
• Enterprise PL/I
• C/C++
• The program binder

z/OS and UNIX System Services

• TSO User ID
• Profiles
• UNIX User ID
• z/OS UNIX – The shell interface under OMVS
• Things you can do under z/OS UNIX
  • Standard commands and utilities
  • Compile / assemble / bind
  • HTTP sever – host web site
  • Use sed file to convert flat file to HTML
  • Use sendmail and ftp
  • Code / compile / run Java
  • WebSphere

Sending notes, e-mails, and text messages

• Communications possibilities
• Sending emails from a batch job
• Sending text messages from a batch job to a cell phone
• SMTP notes
• Communications possibilities conclusion

Conclusion

• z/OS.e and zNALC
• Final thoughts