Introduction to MVS Mainframe Technology - MF00 ( 1 Day )
Price: $600.00
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Abstract/Overview
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive review of the terms, concepts, and facilities of the MVS operating environment. The course explains, in clear terms, the concepts of hardware and software. The course will give the students a practical understanding of the facilities available in MVS and the functions these facilities provide.
Audience - Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for programmers, programmer analysts, and systems analysts, who will be developing new applications or involved in maintaining existing applications under MVS. The intended audience also includes entry-level programmers and analysts.
Prerequisite
Students are assumed to possess an elementary understanding of computers, which may come from an introductory-level data processing or programming class or experience with working with a minicomputer or personal computer (PC).
Objective
- Acquire knowledge of computerized business applications and their environments within MVS.
- Acquire a basic understanding of how MVS manages data and its workload.
- Acquire a basic understanding of the major components in a mainframe system and how they interact.
- Gain an understanding of file structures and how MVS stores and retrieves data.
- Acquire a basic understanding of the different tools available on MVS for developing and supporting application systems.
Content
Mainframe Applications
- Characteristics of Mainframe Applications
- Classes of Mainframe applications
- Batch
- On-line
- Interactive
- Inter/Intra/Extranet
- Network Capabilities
- Application Development
- High Level Languages
- Standard Utilities
- Other Utilities
Mainframe Components
- CPUs
- Main Storage
- Channels
- Control Units
- Direct Access Storage Device (DASD)
- Tape Devices
- Printers & Card Readers
- Terminals
- Operating Systems
- System Operation
- Maintenance
MVS Components
- Features
- Virtual Storage
- Swapping
- Paging
- Multiprogramming
- Spooling
- Sub-Systems
- Usage Modes
- Batch Processing
- Time Sharing
- MVS Data Sets
- Catalogs
- VTOC and DASD labels
- Tape Labels
- Naming Convention
- Generation Data Groups
- Data Security
- Archiving
- Backup
MVS Processing
- Data Set Access
- File Organization
- Record Organization
- Access Strategies
- Databases
- Concepts
- Hierarchical Databases
- Network Databases
- Relational Databases
- Batch Processing
- Jobs
- JCL
- Job Entry Subsystem (JES)
- Job Submission
- Job Scheduling
- Initiators
- Job Execution
- Output Processing
- Scheduling Extensions
- Audit Extensions
- Output Extensions
MVS TP Monitors and Tools
- TP Monitors
- SNA/VTAM
- CICS/VS
- IMS
- VM/CMS
- TSO
- Development Tools
- ISPF
- Development Cycle
- Environment Management
- Source Management
- Program Creation
- Program Execution
- Debugging Features
- Source Control
- Environment Customization
Course Schedule
| Start Date | Location | Class Code | Duration (days) |
| Fri, Oct 29 2010 | Toronto | P36052 | 1 |
| Fri, Dec 10 2010 | Ottawa | P36050 | 1 |
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