Objectives

This course gives participants without a specific background a general overview of the basic principles and techniques of the IBM mainframe world.

At the end of this course the participant will:

• be familiar with the basic architectures and technologies of hardware, networks, communication used in a mainframe environment;
• be familiar with the functions and the types of the IBM mainframe operating systems;
• understand the different kinds of applications and how they work in a typical mainframe environment;

Main topics

• Computer technology basics

computer architecture • binary data • CPU • memory • I/O • IBM mainframe

• Operating systems:

functions • OS overview (OS/390-z/OS, z/VM, z/Linux)

• Data communication and networks:

OSI model • SNA • TCP/IP • Internet

• Data organisation:

Dataset types • storage media • database types (DB2, IMS) • data warehouses

• Applications:

traditional & object oriented • programming languages (COBOL, PL/1, Java) • runtime environments (CICS, IMS, WebSphere)

• Management:

systems management • network management • application management • ITIL