IBM Mainframe z/OS Storage Management Fundamentals
- Course Code U6STOMFG
- Duration 4 days
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Course Overview
TopThe course covers all practical aspects of the storage administrator's job, including media, space and data management. It looks at the tasks which need to be performed, and covers the theoretical background to ensure a proper understanding.
Lab exercises are included to enforce the learning process.
Course Schedule
TopTarget Audience
TopThis 4-Days workshop is suitable for storage administrators and systems programmers who are responsible for managing data and data subsystems within the installation.
Course Objectives
TopThe course covers all practical aspects of the storage administrator's job, including media, space and data management, looking at all tasks which need to be performed to configure a Mainframe storage environment. This course contains hands-on labs.
Course Content
Top- Media, space and data administration.
- The overall I/O process.
- Access methods, data set organisation and record formats.
- The VTOC and Indexed VTOC structure.
- Sizing and creating VTOCs and Indexed VTOCs.
- Creating Catalogs.
- Catalog Maintenance.
- HSM Startup parameters and control data sets.
- Primary and secondary space management.
- Daily and Interval migration.
- Backup and dump processing.
- HSM commands.
- Allocation – SMS and non-SMS.
- Serialization and shared DASD.
- An overview of error management.
- SIM and non-SIM processing.
Course Prerequisites
TopDelegates should have an understanding of z/OS, which may be obtained from the z/OS for Beginners courses and some practice of TSO/ISPF features.