Detailed Course Outline
- List the main enhancements in z/OS V2R4
- Describe and implement, where necessary, the other enhancements packaged with z/OS V2.4 including:
- The BCP includes the I/O configuration program (IOCP), the Workload Manager (WLM), System Management Facilities (SMF), HCD/HCM, the program management binder, Language Environment, Global resource serialization, z/OS sysplex, cross-system coupling facility (XCF), Coupling Facility Resource Manager (CFRM), SFM, system Logger) and other components like BCPii, z/OS Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) and z/OS Job Entry Subsystem 2 (JES2), JES3, SDSF, z/OS Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), time-sharing option (TSO), REXX.
- z/OS Management Facility (zOSMF).
- The USS kernel, USS shell, and related file system services.
- Data storage management which includes Extended Address Volumes, DFSMSdfp, DFSMSdss, and DFSMShsm.
- Communications Server which includes features of the TCP/IP address space, general IP, and SNA modernization.
- System security - RACF.
- z/OS Management Facility (zOSMF).
- z/OS Container Extensions
- Plan for and install the z/OS V2.4 system.