About the course

z/OS Advanced Topics

This course is designed to go into some detail on key technical areas of interest to personnel working with IBM 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 new material. Topics covered include business continuity and disaster recovery, a look inside the coupling facility, z/OS installation overview, z/OS performance basics, global resource serialization and IBM Z virtualization (including memory management). Other topics such as system commands, system integrity and Server Time Protocol reinforce and expand on concepts discussed in earlier classes.

The topics covered include:

• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• A Look Inside the Coupling Facility
• Server Time Protocol (STP)
• z/OS Installation overview
• z/OS Performance Basics
• Global Resource Serialization 
• System z™ Virtualization
• z/OS Operations and Commands
• Understanding a WLM Service Definition
• I/O on System z
• Selected Topics related to z architecture (e.g. machine components, data representation, etc.)