Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are systems administrators, operators, and data center managers.
Prerequisites
N/A:
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Understand how MVS components prepare, execute, and exit work
- Use data areas manuals to locate and interpret major MVS control blocks
- Identify CPU state by examining the PSW and executing units of work
- Explain how MVS-z/OS accepts work and how SVCs, the dispatcher, resource control, and interrupts affect execution
- Understand virtual storage concepts
- Explain the role of access methods, the EXCP driver IOS, and the channel subsystem in handling requests for DASD data
Course Content
- Architecture and Hardware Basics
- An Introduction to MVS
- Control Blocks and Dumps
- Virtual Storage Concepts
- MVS Storage Management
- Dataspaces and Hiperspaces
- System Initialization
- Job Management
- Resource Control
- Program Manager
- Dispatcher
- Inter Address Space Communication
- SVC Processing
- Recovery Termination Management
- Workload Manager and SRM
- Direct Access Storage Devices
- Data Management and I/O Flow
- Parallel Sysplex