Core
Storage Administrator - Core
The learning streams here provide an overview of IBM Z mainframes and their components, and discusses key concepts of the z/OS operating system, including security, and how JES2 is used to process workloads.
Content also focuses on the use of TSO/ISPF and z/OS Explorer to access z/OS data, and the use of SDSF to monitor and manipulate z/OS system activity. Information on the types of storage devices implemented in the mainframe environment, and how they are managed is covered in detail, with content then progressing to JCL where basic statements used to construct a batch job are discussed, along with the use of procedures and symbols, working with VSAM, generation and tape data sets, as well as z/OS UNIX files.
Advanced system monitoring using SDSF is covered, describing how to use the IBM Health Checker, and to display the status and attributes of system components such as spool, network nodes, and defined subsystems. Extensive information on utilities such as IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, and IDCAMS is also presented.
Storage Administrator / Core / z/OS Operating System - Learning Plan
3 hours
IBM (z/OS) - The Evolving Mainframe
3 hours
IBM (z/OS) - Working with the Mainframe
4 hours
z/OS - Concepts
4 hours
z/OS - Managing and Processing z/OS Data
1 hour
IBM Z - Introduction to the IBM Z Systems
3 hours
Parallel Sysplex - Fundamentals
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Storage Administrator / Core / Security - Learning Plan
5 hours
Security - Introduction to Mainframe Security
1 hour
Cryptography - Pervasive Encryption z/OS
1 hour
Implementing Pervasive Encryption on z/OS - Expert Videos
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Storage Administrator / Core / Mainframe Storage Management - Learning Plan
3 hours
Storage - Introduction to Storage and Disk Systems
3 hours
Storage - Understanding Tape Storage
4 hours
Storage - Networks, Administration, & DASD Management Using ICKDSF
5 hours
Storage - Managing z/OS Data Using DFSMS Constructs
3 hours
Storage - Storage & Tape Administration Using DFSMShsm & DFSMSrmm
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Storage Administrator / Core / Interacting with z/OS Data - Learning Plan
3 hours
ISPF (z/OS) - TSO and ISPF Basics
3 hours
ISPF (z/OS) - Configuring ISPF for General Use
1 hour
ISPF (z/OS) - TSO/ISPF Concepts Assessment
2 hours
z/OS Explorer - IBM Explorer for z/OS
3 hours
SDSF - Introduction and Basic Concepts
1 hour
SDSF - Operations
4 hours
SDSF - Working with SDSF Data
0.5 hours
SDSF Concepts Assessment
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Storage Administrator / Core / Displaying, Monitoring and Managing Batch Activity - Learning Plan
3 hours
JES2 - Basics
4 hours
JES2 - Understanding JES2 Processing
3 hours
SDSF - Introduction and Basic Concepts
1 hour
SDSF - Operations
4 hours
SDSF - Working with SDSF Data
0.5 hours
SDSF Concepts Assessment
3 hours
SDSF - Job Activity Basics
3 hours
SDSF - Controlling and Managing Jobs
3 hours
SDSF - Advanced Job Management and Monitoring
3 hours
SDSF - Using SDSF to Display and Control Job Output
3 hours
SDSF - Using SDSF to Display and Control Printers
1 hour
SDSF Monitoring Job Activity Using SDSF Assessment
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Storage Administrator / Core / Basic Batch Job Creation - Learning Plan
3 hours
JCL (z/OS) - Introduction to JCL
1 hour
JCL (z/OS) - JCL Concepts Assessment
4 hours
JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding Basics - JOB and EXEC Statements
4 hours
JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding Basics - DD Statements and Data Sets
3 hours
JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding Basics - DD Statements and SYSOUT
5 hours
JCL (z/OS) - Advanced JCL Data Set Use
3 hours
JCL (z/OS) - Working with Procedures and Symbols
1 hour
JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding Assessment
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Storage Administrator / Core / Monitoring and Managing z/OS System Activity using SDSF - Learning Plan
3 hours
SDSF - System Health and Managing JES2 Resources
4 hours
SDSF - Using SDSF to Work with System Information and Devices
3 hours
SDSF - Using SDSF to Perform Advanced System Monitoring
1 hour
SDSF Managing System Resources Using SDSF Assessment
1 hour
SDSF - Advanced - Tips and Tricks
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Storage Administrator / Core / z/OS Utilities - Learning Plan
4 hours
Utilities - General Data Set Utilities
3 hours
Utilities - Copy, Compare, and List Data Utilities
3 hours
Utilities - Sort and Update Data Utilities
1.5 hours
Utilities - Advanced - Tips and Tricks
1 hour
VSAM - Introduction to VSAM
3 hours
VSAM - Defining, Altering, and Deleting VSAM Data Sets
3 hours
VSAM - Working with VSAM Data Sets
0.5 hours
VSAM - Advanced - Tips and Tricks
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Advanced
Storage Administrator - Advanced
The learning streams above address the advanced skills, knowledge, and practices dealing with products that a Mainframe Storage Administrator will need to know about at some stage of their career. These focus on common batch job identification and resolution practices as well as data transfer processes.
Storage Administrator / Advanced / Batch Job Problem Resolution - Learning Plan
3 hours
JCL (z/OS) - Controlling Job and Step Processing
3 hours
JCL (z/OS) - Running and Debugging JCL
1 hour
JCL (z/OS) - JCL Problem Resolution Assessment
1 hour
JCL (z/OS) - Advanced - Tips and Tricks
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Storage Administrator / Advanced / Data Transfers - Learning Plan
3 hours
Managed File Transfer for Operations
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Business
Storage Administrator - Business
The learning streams above provide content focussing on business-related information. This includes disaster recovery, where the z/OS Storage Administrator often plays a critical role in ensuring recoverability of business data, and infrastructure, ensuring they comply with any regulatory requirements. This person also needs to understand how coaching and mentoring practices can be implemented to ensure they, and other staff, are trained to meet their full potential.
Storage Administrator / Business / Disaster Recovery - Learning Plan
3 hours
DR - Ensuring Data Center Business Continuity
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Storage Administrator / Business / Coaching and Mentoring - Learning Plan
2 hours
Coaching and Mentoring for Technical Specialists
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Optional
Storage Administrator - Optional
The learning streams here are not mandatory but help to provide a holistic view of the mainframe environment that you are working in. For example, z/OS UNIX is available on a z/OS system, and use of z/VM and Linux operating systems is also likely, so knowledge in these areas is going to help you. Other topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Containers, and Kubernetes provide an overview of various technologies available on the mainframe that your organization may be using. The cloud is playing an ever increasing role in Data Center processing so knowing how it works, its structure, and security configuration may be of interest.
Knowledge of script languages such as REXX and CLIST will assist in creating programs used to simplify complex or often-performed tasks.
Storage Administrator / Optional / Emerging Technologies - Learning Plan
4 hours
Blockchain Technologies
1 hour
Containers - Introduction to Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
3 hours
Zowe Fundamentals
0.75 hours
Quantum - Easy Introduction to Quantum Computing - Expert Videos
4 hours
AI – Artificial Intelligence and Modern Business
3 hours
AI – Big Data and Hadoop
3 hours
AI – Data Analytics and Apache Spark
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Storage Administrator / Optional / Cloud - Learning Plan
3 hours
Introduction to Cloud Computing
3 hours
Understanding Cloud Architecture
1 hour
Cloud Security
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Storage Administrator / Optional / Related Operating Systems - Learning Plan
3 hours
z/OS UNIX - z/OS UNIX System Services Basics
4 hours
z/OS UNIX - Interacting with the z/OS UNIX System
4 hours
z/OS UNIX - Working with z/OS UNIX
3 hours
z/VM - Introduction and Concepts
5 hours
Linux on IBM Z Fundamentals
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Storage Administrator / Optional / Scripts - Learning Plan
3 hours
CLIST - Basics
4 hours
REXX - Fundamentals
4 hours
REXX - Coding and Execution Basics
3 hours
REXX - General REXX Instructions
4 hours
REXX - Basic REXX Functions and Subroutines
4 hours
REXX - Manipulating and Converting Data
3 hours
REXX - Program Flow
3 hours
REXX - Handling Errors
4 hours
REXX - Working in the TSO Environment
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