Course Contents:
• Introduction to Mainframes
• Fundamentals and Types of computers
• Features of Mainframe
• Characteristics of Mainframe
• Mainframe Terminologies
• MVS
• Evolution of Operating Systems
• MVS Architecture
• MVS Concepts
• Data Management & Subsystems
• Catalogs
• System Library
• Sub systems
• Types of Datasets
• Mainframe Basic login and navigation

Course Contents:
• Use ISPF to allocate, rename, and delete datasets
• Use ISPF/PDF to edit, view, and browse datasets
• Use ISPF to create datasets
• Line commands, Primary Commands
Use System Display and Search Facility (SDSF) to review output from TSO
batchsubmitted jobs
• SDSF (Spool Navigation, Viewing the JOB’s output, JOB status)
• SDSF Initiators Panel
• Use ISPF/PDF to compress datasets and move, or copy members
between datasets

Course Contents:
• INTRODUCTION TO JCL
• JOB STATEMENT EXEC DD STATEMENT
• KEYWORD PARAMETER, POSITIONAL PARAMETER
• RESTART PARAMETER,PARM PARAMETER
• COND PARAMETER
• IF/THEN/ELSE STATEMENT
• INSTREAM PROCEDURES, CATALOG PROCEDURES
• JOBLIB STATEMENT, SET PARAMETER
• OVERRIDING AND SYMBOLIC PARAMETER
• GDG AND Abend codes
• Various abend codes with explanation
• IEFBR14, IEBGENER,IEBCOPY,IEHPROGM,IEHLIST,
SORT & MERGE utilities usage

Course Contents:
• Overview of VSAM
• VSAM Terminology
• VSAM files and cluster creation
• IDCAMS
Loading VSAM dataset (REPRO, REPLACE, REUSE, FROMKEY,
FROMNUMBER,
FROMADDRESS, COUNT & STOPAFT)
• backup, and recovery
• VSAM Print Commands
• Verify Command
• Import and Export
• Alternate Index

• Introduction to Database (Hierarchical, Network & Relational databases)
• Introduction to DB2
• DB2 components
• DB2 Utilities & SQL codes
• Introduction to Online systems (CICS)
• CICS concepts & System components
• CICS common issues and resolution

Course Contents:
• OVERVIEW OF SYSTEM Z SERVERS
• Z/OS FUNCTIONAL GROUP CONCEPTS
• SYSTEM Z SPECIALITY ENGINES
• Z/ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
• COMMON MAINFRAME TERMS
• PROCESSOR TYPES
• HMC
• LPAR
• Z/OS MVS COMMANDS
• OPERATOR COMMAND TO DISPLAY AND CHANGE
• CHANNEL PATH AND I/O STATUS
Z/OS OPERATOR DISPLAY COMANDS
• Z/OS OPERATOR VARY COMMANDS
• MESSAGE FORMAT
• Z/OS ADDRESS SPACE
• D A,L COMMAND
• D A,A COOMAND
• D U COMMAND
• D M=DEV COMMAND D M=CPU COMMAND
• JES2 JOB PROCESSING
• STARTING JES2
• CONTROLLING JOBS
• CONTROLLING PRINTERS
• Z/OS CONSOLE OPERATIONS
• MCS CONSOLE
• CONSOLE USAGE
• CONSOLE AUTHORITY LEVELS
• CONSOLE DISPLAY COMMAND • REVIEW SYSLOG

Course Contents:
• Batch Processing
• JES2 & other products – how they relate
• Starting & Stopping z/OS & JES2
• Input/ Output Devices
• Reading Jobs & Queue Management
• Phases of JES
• JES2 Checkpoint Datasets
• JES2 Configuration
• JES commands
• Monitoring console messages
• Spool maintenance

Course Contents:
• ELEMENT AND SUBSYSTEM
• DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUBSYSTEM
• PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUBSYSTEM
• OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENT SUBSYSTEMS OF Z/OS
• TSO
• SDSF
• ISPF
• VTAM
• CICS
• DB2
• BASIC COMMANDS RELATED TO DB2, CICS AND IMS/ JES2
• UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM SHUTDOWN PROCESS (IPL)
• UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM STARTUP PROCESS (IPL)
• AUTOMATION SHUTDOWN STANDARDS
• AUTOMATION PHASES DURING SHUTDOWN
• SYSPLEX MANAGEMENT
• HMC
• AUTOMATION STARTUP PHASES
• AUTOMATION PROBLEM MANAGEMENT

Course Contents:
• MVS physical hardware addresses
• MVS specific message identifiers
• Product license codes
• Master catalog; master catalog address space
• Understanding WTORs
• Understanding System dumps
• SMF Concepts
• MAN Data set creation
• SMFPRMxx member explanation
• Taking Dump from SMF data set
• Creating customized report
• LOGREC Log Stream

• Create User Groups
• Create User Profiles
• Create Users
• Allocate Access
• RACF Commands

• CA7 Scheduling Tool Overview
• Control M Scheduling Tool Overview

• Endevor

• Capstone Project