z/OS Advanced Topics

This module is designed to go into some detail on key technical areas of interest to personnel working with System z and z/OS. Several topics are extensions to basic materials covered in the Introduction to z/OS and Major Subsystems class while others cover entirely new material. The topics covered include:

• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

• Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing

• A Look Inside the Coupling Facility

• Server Time Protocol (STP)

• z/OS Installation overview

• z/OS Performance Basics

• Global Resource Serialization

• System z™ Virtualization

• Selected Topics related to z architecture (e.g. machine components, data representation, etc.)