IBM Power Systems

This course is designed to provide a system administrator with no prior AIX experience an introduction to the background and the fundamental components of AIX. The course covers essential knowledge including concepts, system access and management, and commonly used administrative commands.

This course is designed to provide existing UNIX administrators a path to understanding the critical differences with AIX. Topics examined include the essential components of AIX, system management, performance improvements, and AIX system troubleshooting.

This course is designed to provide the learner with an understanding of the tasks involved in creating and managing a virtualized AIX environment, and assumes the learner has a basic understanding of AIX. Topics covered include the fundamentals of virtualization in AIX environments, an examination of the Virtual I/O Server, and the use of management devices such as the HMC, IVM, or SDMC.

The Introduction to Db2 for IBM i - Introduction for Programmers course introduces the two main Db2 file types, physical and logical files. It describes how to define and create them.

The IBM i Fundamentals course provides learners with an introduction into IBM i from an operations point of view.

The IBM i Introduction to IBM i for System Operators course provides learners with an introduction into IBM i from an operations point of view. The course will familiarize you with the IBM Navigator for i and 5250 emulation interfaces and provide examples of some of the tasks that can be performed using them.

The IBM i Monitoring and Managing IBM i Workloads course provides learners with an overview of the processes involved in monitoring, managing and controlling IBM i workloads and printing is also provided.

The CLP - Control Language Programming course introduces programming that uses the IBM i Control Language (CL). It explains how to use the variables utilized in a CL program and control its processing.

The CLP - Control Language Programming Functions and Messaging course describes the more advanced features of Control Language programming. It focuses on how to use CL message handling to monitor the correct execution of CL programs.

The Query - Database Basics and the Need for Query course describes the IBM Query for i sort, report and analyze capabilities providing examples on how IBM Query for i is used to create business reports. Basic concepts relating to database structure and the data that can be accessed by IBM Query for i are explained in detail.

The Query - Creating a Simple Query course begins by describing how database files are joined, enabling IBM Query for i to more easily reference data. This is followed by the identification of data that will be required by IBM Query for i and the subsequent coding required to extract that information. Details on options used to save the query and print, or display, the resulting report are also covered.

The Query - Advanced Query Features and Management course begins by looking at more complex capabilities associated with query definitions. It then moves into the management of queries, explaining how queries can be copied, modified, deleted, printed and run. The Data File Utility and its purpose are discussed, and finally a number of tips when managing queries are provided.

The RPG/400 - Introduction explains the fundamental features and structure of a Report Program Generator (RPG) program. It also describes the concepts of RPG programming.

The RPG/400 - Coding course explains the fundamental Report Program Generator (RPG) operation codes that enable programmers to manage field values, perform numeric operations, and manipulate dates for retrieval and viewing.

The RPG/400 - Programming course explains how to use Report Program Generator (RPG) features to write reports. It also describes structured programming and how to affect the flow of control.

The RPG/400 - Workstation Programming Introduction course shows how to design and develop screen layouts and how the program can interact with the user to deliver and accept data.

The RPG/400 - Advanced Workstation Programming course shows how to use the standard IBM i tools to write and compile RPG/400 programs. This course also covers the design and use of dynamic databases in your program.

The IBM i System Administrator Fundamentals course introduces the learner to administrator tasks they will be expected to perform and begins with the basics; the role of the IBM i system administrator, configuration, backup and recovery strategies, and monitoring tools.

The IBM i Security Implementation course introduces the learner to tasks they will be expected to perform relating to security implementation, managing user access and authorities, resolving security problems, and security auditing.

The IBM i Journal Management course introduces the learner to journaling and how to manage journals.

The IBM i Storage Management course introduces the learner to IBM i storage management and redundancy.

This course looks at logical partitioning and the benefits that can be gained from implementing this feature on your IBM i system. Details of the products that can be used to define partitions as well as the process itself is provided, and the management and performance of partitions is also discussed in detail.