IMS Diagnostic Approaches

Course overview

This course is taught in a web conference medium with live instructor audio, and internet web conferenced materials. Students have chat type Q&A ability, plus live audio. The course is taug

This class will teach you to understand the IMS software diagnostic process and to know what documentation is required to solve IMS software problems. IMS address space and Task Control Block (TCB) structures along with associated IMS control block structures will be examined to provide you with a roadmap to manuever through the diagnostic maze. Focus will be given to using Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS) and the IMS Interactive Dump Formatter to become familiar with IMS dumps

Who should attend

IMS System Programmers responsible for supporting IMS and diagnosing IMS problems.

Prerequisites

Students should have moderate IMS knowledge which can be gained through work experience or through completing the IMS Fundamentals class (CM010 or CMW01). Students should also have basic assembly language knowledge and be familiar with reading hexadecimal values. A moderate level of z/os systems programming and z/os operations knowledge would be helpful.

Delivery formats

• • Instructor-led online (virtual classroom)
• • Instructor-led on-site at your premises
• • Self-paced online training
• • Private/closed group delivery for corporate teams

Related and follow-on courses

• CM20G — IMS Database Recovery Control (DBRC) (Advanced)
• CM22G — IMS Physical Organization of Databases Workshop (Advanced)
• CM01G — IMS Fundamentals (Basic)
• CM059G — IMS Installation Workshop (Intermediate)