Labs – z/OS UNIX (z/OS)

Duration

3.5 hours

Overview

These mainframe exercises provide scenarios where you are required to perform tasks and resolve simple and more complex z/OS-related problems, using your organization’s training sandbox.

Audience

These exercises are suitable for junior system programmers or senior operations staff.

Prerequisites

A solid understanding of the z/OS UNIX environment, or the successful completion of the following Interskill courses:

• z/OS UNIX System Services – Basics
• Interacting with the z/OS UNIX System
• Working with z/OS UNIX

Note: Each Lab below contains its own list of prerequisites or equivalent knowledge, which is displayed when accessing the module.

Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Display z/OS UNIX environment details
• Display z/OS UNIX directory and file details
• Create, move, rename, and delete z/OS UNIX files and directories
• Suspend and delete OMVS sessions
• Display active processes
• Create new z/OS UNIX directories and access attributes
• Create a symbolic link
• Copy data from a z/OS UNIX file to another
• Compare z/OS UNIX file data
• Create and modify z/OS UNIX file attributes using ISPF 3.17
• Invoke the BPXBATCH utility to create a z/OS UNIX directory
• Create, test, and execute an interactive script

Course Content

Lab z/OS UNIX (z/OS) – ISHELL

Starting an ISHELL Session
Displaying Active Processes
Creating a Directory and Access Attributes Using ISHELL
Renaming a z/OS UNIX File
Creating a Symbolic Link
Copying z/OS UNIX File Data
Comparing z/OS UNIX File Contents