ICF Catalog Management Workshop

This course teaches ICF catalog management.

This course is for storage administrators, systems programmers, operations analysts or anyone responsible for building, managing and maintaining ICF catalogs.

Delegates should have a good understanding of the z/OS environment and be familiar with JCL and VSAM datasets.

After attending this class, delegates will be able to:

• Define the structure and function of an ICF catalog.
• Create and maintain ICF catalogs.
• Understand the associations between the differing VVDS and BCS records.
• Identify and determine an error in a catalog structure.
• Define procedures to diagnose, backup and recover catalog, whilst ensuring a high level of system availability.

The Integrated Catalog Facility.
Creating the Catalog Environment.
Creating Catalog Entries.
Listing Catalog Information.
The Catalog Address Space.
Performance Considerations.
Sharing Catalogs amongst multiple z/OS Systems.
Backing up catalogs.
Recovery from Loss of complete Catalog.
Recovery from loss/corruption of Catalog entries.
Routine management.
Catalog security.