About this course
Course Overview
The course covers all practical aspects of the storage administrator's job, including media, space and data management. It looks at the tasks which need to be performed, and covers the theoretical background to ensure a proper understanding.
Lab exercises are included to enforce the learning process.
Virtual Learning
This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.
Target Audience
This 4-Days workshop is suitable for storage administrators and systems programmers who are responsible for managing data and data subsystems within the installation.
Course Objectives
The course covers all practical aspects of the storage administrator's job, including media, space and data management, looking at all tasks which need to be performed to configure a Mainframe storage environment. This course contains hands-on labs.
Course Content
The Storage Administrator's Job- Media, space and data administration.
- The overall I/O process.
- Access methods, data set organisation and record formats.
- The VTOC and Indexed VTOC structure.
- Sizing and creating VTOCs and Indexed VTOCs.
- Creating Catalogs.
- Catalog Maintenance.
- HSM Startup parameters and control data sets.
- Primary and secondary space management.
- Daily and Interval migration.
- Backup and dump processing.
- HSM commands.
- Allocation – SMS and non-SMS.
- Serialization and shared DASD.
- An overview of error management.
- SIM and non-SIM processing.
Course Prerequisites
Delegates should have an understanding of z/OS, which may be obtained from the z/OS for Beginners courses and some practice of TSO/ISPF features.
