z/VSE Fast Track for Technical Support Staff

Focus on building the skills you need to manage your z/Virtual Storage Extended (z/VSE) environment!

This class gives delegates the detailed technical understanding and experience critical to maintaining, supporting, and tuning your z/VSE system. Course content features plenty of hands on lab exercises that reinforce the information presented in the lectures.

This class is specially tailored for experienced z/OS technical support personnel who require a more in-depth understanding of VSE and its subsystems, in order to effectively support the z/VSE platform.

Attendees should have some experience installing, tailoring, and maintaining operating systems such as z/OS.

Delegates attending will be able to:

• Identify the architecture of key VSE components.
• Diagnose and resolve VSE system and subsystem problems.
• Use VSE debugging facilities Improve the overall performance of VSE systems.
• Program 31-bit applications.
• Implement data spaces and virtual disks.

Review of the z Architecture.
VSE Operating Environments.
Basic mode, LPAR mode, VM Guest.
VSE Supervisor and Turbo-Dispatcher.
Hardware support.
Storage Organization.
Real and virtual storage.
Address spaces and partitions.
Shared areas.
Data spaces and virtual disks.
Libraries and files.
System and user libraries.
System and user datasets.
DASD organization.
Data Spaces and Virtual Disks.
POWER.
CICS.
VTAM.
TCP/IP for VSE.
Interactive User Interface.
ICCF and editors.
IPL and JCL procedures.
Types of consoles.
Operating the console.
Entering commands.
Scrolling.
Messages.
Explain support (Help).
Managing the Hardcopy file.
IPL process.
z/VSE Supervisor and Internals.
64 and 31 bit Programming.
z/VSE Installation and Tailoring.
z/VSE Debugging Tools.
z/VSE Performance and Tuning.
VSE/POWER Structure and Functions.
VSE/VTAM and CICS/VSE Problem Determination.
z/VSE Enhancements.
z/VSE Control Block Flow.
z/VSE I/O Handling.
z/VSE Error Recovery.
z/VSE Storage Management.
z/VSE Dispatcher/Task selection.
CICS/ICCF Restructuring.
Practical Exercises.