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    z/OS Management Facility Implementation and Use

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    This course is designed to provide you with the skills required to install and customize IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) 2.3, and use the functions and features provided by z/OSMF. IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a product for z/OS that will simplify, optimize, and modernize the z/OS system programmer experience. z/OSMF delivers solutions in a task-oriented, web browser-based user interface with integrated user assistance. In this course, we introduce z/OS Management Facility and its architecture; and describe the components that are necessary to run z/OSMF on z/OS. In this course, you will also learn the installation and customization of z/OS Management Facility, and will customize several system components to exploit the following z/OSMF functions: z/OSMF Software Management Manager Capacity Provisioning Classic (ISPF) Interface Incident Log Configuration Assistant for the z/OS Communications Server Workload Management System Status, Resource Monitoring Workflow

    z/OS Management Facility Implementation and Use
    Table of contents
    1. Short Summary
    2. Modality
    3. Cost
    4. Publish date
    5. Retire date
    6. Duration
    7. Agenda
    8. Objectives
    9. Brand/Department
    10. Product
    11. Skill Level
    12. Key Topics
    13. Audience
    14. Labs
    15. Follow-on Courses
    Short Summary

    This intermediate course is intended for experienced syste+B876m programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise. The students...

    Modality

    Classroom or Instructor-led online

    Cost

    paid

    Amount

    300

    Publish Date

    April 3, 2014

    Retire Date

    December 30, 2028

    Duration

    24 hours

    Agenda

    Day 1

    • Welcome
    • Unit 1: z/OS Management Facility: Overview
    • Unit 2: z/OS Management Facility: Implementation and configuration
    • Exercise 1: z/OSMF planning and prerequisites

    Day 2

    • Exercise 1:z/OSMF planning and prerequisites (continued)
    • Exercise 2: z/OS Management Facility configuration and setup
    • Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility: Usage
    • Exercise 3: z/OS Management Facility post-configuration and administration

    Day 3

    • Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility: Usage (continued)
    • Exercise 4: z/OS Management Facility exploitation
    • Wrap-up
    Objectives
    • Describe the purpose and benefit of z/OS Management Facility
    • Describe the functions provided by z/OS Management Facility
    • Describe the technical overview of z/OSMF features and architecture
    • Describe the z/OSMF client and server operating environment
    • Describe the systems management tasks and updates with every release
    • Indicate list of publications and references
    • Describe ordering and installing the z/OSMF software (code)
      • Using ServerPac or SMP/E
    • Describe setup and configuration overall process:
      • Configure z/OS prerequisites for plug-ins
      • Configure z/OSMF
    • Explain any migration issues or concerns
    • Describe the details of each function, updated for each release ofz/OSMF
    • Understand the detailed examples of how to use the z/OSMF features
    • Describe the z/OSMF tasks (and release of z/OS and z/OSMF that was introduced)
    • Manage the z/OSMF Administration:
      • Adding users, defining roles, new SAF-based authorization
      • Customize Welcome screen, add Links

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    Brand/Department

    IBM Z - Mainframe

    Product

    z/OS

    Skill Level

    Instructor: intermediate, Student: intermediate

    Key Topics

    z/OS Management Facility, Overview, ESB3G, ESB3

    Audience
    • This intermediate course is intended for experienced system programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise.
    • The students must have basic knowledge of z/OS UNIX System Services (USS)
    • and the skills normally required to install a z/OS product using SMP/E and batch jobs to update system data sets.
    • RACF knowledge is useful
    • as well as WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile for z/OS.
    Labs

    Yes

    Follow-on Courses

    Not provided.