Kurs informasjon: z/OS Management Facility Implementation and Use

This course is designed to provide you with the skills required to install and customize z/OSMF (Management Facility), and use the functions and features provided by z/OSMF.

IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a new 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 will introduce z/OS Management Facility and its architecture, 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:

• Deployment Manager
• Capacity Provisioning
• Classic (ISPF) Interface
• Incident Log
• Configuration Assistant for the z/OS Communications Server
• Workload Management
• System Status, Resource Monitoring

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This basic course is for experienced system programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise.

You 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 for z/OS.

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You should have a good knowledge of z/OS at the level of a z/OS system programmer, acquired on the job or through the z/OS curriculum, including skills required to install and customize z/OS UNIX applications.

If the above prerequisites are not met, then the courses listed in the Curriculum are recommended.

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• Describe the purpose and benefit of z/OS Management Facility
• Describe the functions provided 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)
  • Via ServerPac or SMP/E

• Perform installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server OEM Edition
• Describe setup and configuration overall process:
  • Configure WebSphere Application Server OEM Edition
  • 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 of z/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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Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF): Overview
• Unit 2: z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF): Implementation and configuration
• Exercise 1 (1/2):WebSphere Application Server OEM Edition configuration and setup

Day 2

• Exercise 1 (2/2):WebSphere Application Server OEM Edition configuration and setup
• Exercise 2: z/OS Management Facility configuration and setup
• Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF): Usage

Day 3

• Exercise 3: z/OS Management Facility post-configuration and administration
• Exercise 4: z/OS Management Facility exploitation
• Wrap-up

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