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IBM Environment Intro Curriculum 2.5
| Course Title | Duration (hours) |
Description |
| 3 | This course describes what a mainframe is, how it has survived, and the IT personnel that need to interact with it. It then discusses the basic hardware, software and networking components that you will find in a typical mainframe environment. | |
| 3 | This course begins by explaining how data is stored in a mainframe and the type of security that protects it. It then discusses the core products used to prioritize and process that data. Locating system documentation is going to be important for anyone working on the mainframe, for example error message manuals, product installation processes, so knowing how to access it is important. This is covered in the last module of this course. | |
| 4 | This course provides the systems programmer with a more in-depth view of the z/OS system and covers concepts such as virtual storage, and the system data sets and parameters that are used to initialize and configure the z/OS system. | |
| 3 | This course provides the systems programmer with a more in-depth view of the z/OS system and covers concepts such as virtual storage, system initialization, and JES2 configuration. and how system data sets and parameters can be modified in response to system issues. | |
| 6 | This course discusses the use of mainframe data sets and database files to store organizational data and examines the batch and online methods used to process that data. | |
| 6 | This course discusses widely used mainframe programming languages such as COBOL, PL/I, C++, REXX, CLIST, Java, and Python, and describes how the Language Environment provides many of these languages with common runtime routines. |