z/OS Management Facility Implementation and Use

Course overview

This intermediate course is intended for experienced syste+B876m programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise. The students...

This course is designed to provide you with the skills required to install and customize IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) 2.3, and use the functions and features provided by z/OSMF.

IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a product for z/OS that will simplify, optimize, and modernize the z/OS system programmer experience.

z/OSMF delivers solutions in a task-oriented, web browser-based user interface with integrated user assistance.

In this course, we introduce z/OS Management Facility and its architecture; and describe the components that are necessary to run z/OSMF on z/OS.

In this course, you will also learn the installation and customization of z/OS Management Facility, and will customize several system components to exploit the following z/OSMF functions:

• z/OSMF Software Management Manager

• Capacity Provisioning

• Classic (ISPF) Interface

• Incident Log

• Configuration Assistant for the z/OS Communications Server

• Workload Management

• System Status, Resource Monitoring

• Workflow

Who should attend

This intermediate course is intended for experienced system programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise. The students must have basic knowledge of z/OS UNIX System Services (USS), and the skills normally required to install a z/OS product using SMP/E and batch jobs to update system data sets. RACF knowledge is useful, as well as WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile for z/OS.

Prerequisites

You should have a good knowledge of z/OS at the level of a z/OS system programmer, acquired on the job or through the z/OS curriculum, including skills required to install and customize z/OS UNIX applications. If the above prerequisites are not met, then the courses listed in the Curriculum are recommended.

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

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• ES35G — Advanced Assembler Language Coding Workshop (Advanced)
• ES90G — Advanced Parallel Sysplex Operations and Recovery Workshop (Advanced)
• BE87G — Effective RACF Administration (Intermediate)
• ES07G — z/OS JCL and Utilities (Basic)