This learning plan is specifically designed to introduce new user experience designers and content developers to the world of IBM Z and LinuxONE, helping you embark on your learning journey in this highly technical domain.  In Level 1, you'll understand the value of IT Infrastructure to IBM clients and the global economy, gain a high-level understanding of IBM's infrastructure strategy, and see where you fit within the larger IBM organization.   Level 2 will guide you through the historical evolution of IBM Z systems, their current real-world applications, and the key personas utilizing those systems.   Finally, Level 3 will cover the latest IBM Z capabilities, familiarize you with various hardware and software components, and provide resources to deepen your knowledge. This course is your gateway to mastering the essentials of IBM Z and making a significant impact in your role.

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Course provides guidance on how to build an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus solution

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In this course you learn about the underlying functionality of IBM Spectrum Protect.

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In this course, you will use both the Operations Center and command line to define, modify, and add retention holds to retention rules and retention sets.

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IBM Spectrum Protect provides a variety of features that help you control the way data is moved and protected through its life cycle. The various controls, including those specific to storage destinations and policy, are implemented to meet service level agreements for various data types and retention requirements. In this  course, you will learn how IBM Spectrum Protect uses policy to control data movement, retention, and expiration.This course addresses using policy management to customize data retention, such as storage location, how long to retain backup or archive data, and how many backup versions to keep. Also covered are tips for optimizing data storage, data movement, and expiration.

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This is an introductory course that provides you with a basic level of information on the general functions, features, and capabilities of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. It also serves to familiarize students with frequently used terminology that is used as they continue to more advanced courses. This course contains product information up to and including version 10.1.10.

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These courses are designed to guide learners through the critical stages of pre-sales and technical due diligence within their specialized workstreams. The journey begins with an overview of the entire process, providing a solid foundation for all participants. After completing the overview, learners will dive deeper into their specific areas of expertise by selecting the appropriate workstream. Each course is tailored to equip learners with the tools, knowledge, and skills necessary for navigating both pre-sales activities and technical due diligence, ensuring they are fully prepared to contribute to successful business outcomes.

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These courses are designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of project management within key IBM workstreams, tailored to optimize IT operations and drive organizational efficiency. Learners will begin with an introductory overview that highlights core project management principles and practices. From there, participants will select their specific workstream of expertise to explore the unique processes and methodologies applicable to their focus area. Whether managing workload automation, storage infrastructure, security protocols, or product development cycles, this course equips learners with the skills needed to streamline project workflows, improve system reliability, and foster innovation across complex IT environments.

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This course focuses on IBM System Automation migration concepts, planning considerations, and practical approaches for moving existing automation environments to newer solutions. Learners review architecture, migration strategy, implementation guidance, and operational impacts needed for successful automation transitions.

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This course is designed to teach you how to use z/OS job control language (JCL) and selected z/OS utility programs in an online batch environment. Both Storage Management Subsystem (SMS) and non-SMS JCL are discussed. Machine lab exercises complement the lecture material.

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This course is designed to teach you the fundamental practical skills to navigate and work in a z/OS environment. This includes the use of ISPF/PDF dialogs, TSO/E commands, JCL, UNIX System Services shell, and BookManager.

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This classroom course introduces the base elements, optional features, and servers that are provided in z/OS. It focuses on the system service facilities that are provided by the z/OS Base Control Program (BCP). It teaches the students the functions of major software base elements in the management of jobs, tasks, storage, data, and problems. It also addresses how these functions can be affected by the system programmer. Students are introduced to the services provided by the servers which execute in the z/OS environments, such as the Communications Server and the Security Server. Installation packaging options and steps to install the z/OS environments also are introduced.

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This course begins with an introduction to the z/OS environment, TSO and ISPF/PDF, batch processing, and z/OS data sets. Hands-on labs allow you to gain experience with viewing and allocating data sets, submitting a batch job, and viewing job output. After the introduction to z/OS, you will then learn, through lecture and exercises, how to use basic RACF command parameters and panels to define users and groups, protect general resources, z/OS data sets, and choose a basic set of RACF options.

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This course presents the structure and control blocks of the z/OS BCP and system services. It prepares the new z/OS system programmer to identify potential bottlenecks and performance problems, perform initial error symptom gathering, and identify opportunities and requirements for tailoring a z/OS system. This course also provides prerequisite information needed for further training in specialized areas such as system measurement and tuning and system problem determination.

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This course teaches you navigation, operation, and recovery techniques for the Hardware Management Console (HMC) in the System z environment. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, you learn setup and operating procedures for the HMC, gain in-depth problem determination skills, practice HMC operations, and utilize recovery capabilities provided by the System z servers.

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This course is designed to provide the SMP/E skills needed in the installation and maintenance of optional features and maintenance in the z/OS operating environment. You are taught to define the SMP/E database and invoke SMP/E to add, modify, or replace system elements. The course includes extensive hands-on labs using a current level of SMP/E. You will get practical experience in the SMP/E tasks involved in installing a z/OS product. Emphasis is on interpreting results of SMP/E processing. SMP/E concepts examined in this course include modification control statements, the consolidated software inventory, zone structure, and error analysis. SMP/E commands such as RECEIVE, APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE, REPORT, and LIST are discussed. You will also learn how to perform automated SMP/E delivery of z/OS and product maintenance over the Internet with an automated SMP/E process that downloads and installs IBM preventive and corrective service over the Internet.

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To provide an overview of the z Operating System (OS), look at the systems from both a hardware and software prospective, and develop a basic understanding of System z partitioning capabilities, Processor Resource/Systems Manager (PR/SM), z/OS, Job Entry Subsystem 2 (JES2), Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3), Time Sharing Option (TSO), TSO Extended (TSO/E), System Display and Search Facility (SDSF), z/OS Communications Server, and System z channel subsystem usage for various channels, such as Enterprise System Connection (ESCON), Fiber Connector (FICON), and the Open Systems Adapter (OSA). It will also describe the Initial Program Loader (IPL) process and enable you to become comfortable issuing z/OS commands from a Multi Console Support (MCS) system console or extended MCS console.

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This course is designed to give the z/OS Operator personnel as well as entry systems programmers an overview about JES2. The students should be able to use JES2 commands at the z/OS Console and use SDSF.

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LABS AND COURSE MATERIALS ARE IN JAPANESE - For Delivery in Japan Only Students can learn program development using COBOL. Data transaction using tables and file Program compiling Debug TSO ISPF

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LABS AND COURSE MATERIALS ARE IN JAPANESE - For Delivery in Japan Only Students can learn program development using PL/I. Data transaction using tables and file Program compiling Debug TSO ISPF

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LABS AND COURSE MATERIALS ARE IN JAPANESE - For Delivery in Japan Only Students can learn z/OS basic. z/OS architecture Create program at the z/OS environment TSO, batch

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LABS AND COURSE MATERIALS ARE IN JAPANESE - For Delivery in Japan Only Students can learn z/OS utility. z/OS architecture MVS Acquire skill for z/os utility

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This classroom hands-on lab course provides an introduction to the mainframe Assembler language. The course is designed to develop the skills appropriate to write and/or maintain programs and routines written in S/370 or S/390 Assembler Language. Emphasis is placed on enhancing skills in problem resolution through program check interruption analysis and dump reading.

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This course provides instruction and practice in the use of the more complex S/390 Assembler Language facilities for the experienced assembler language programmer. The course includes a discussion of standard linkage conventions, use of BSAM/QSAM and selected system macros, the macro definition language, and reentrant coding considerations. Emphasis is placed on enhancing skills in problem resolution through analysis of more complex system-provided dumps.

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