GENERAL MVS INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

• Introduction
• Evolution leading to z/OS
• Paging vs. Real Storage
  • UIC #
  • Thrash
• z/OS Resources
  • CPU
  • STORAGE
  • I/O
• Swapping
• MVS System Evolution
  • Developments and Enhancements along the way 
  • Including:
  •           I/ O enhancements 
    • Fiber Technology
    • Evolution of ESCON and FICON 
      • Features of ESCON
      • Features of FICON  
      • Multiple Image Facility
      • Managing, Monitoring and Controlling the FICON environment
      • The Enterprise Storage Server (DISK)
      • Tape Management 
• Parallel SYSPLEX and Data Sharing
• Cache Device Sharing
• Operation Enhancements
• I/S Productivity Enhancements
• Multiple Systems Management
• Performance Capacity Improvements
• Availability vs. Downtime
• Running Concurrent MVS Levels
• Hardware Configuration Definition
• Lock Managers
• z/OS Operating System
• 64 bit architecture
• Intelligent Resource Director
• zFS file system
• Architecture evolution
• Architecture compatibility
• Implementation of 64 bit architecture
• Control of 64 bit storage
• C+ & JAVA
• DB2 Websphere
• Intelligent Resource Director
• The Workload Manager
• LPAR & CPU management
• Dynamic channel path management
• Channel sub-system priority queing
• Activating LPAR & CPU management functions
• Activating dynamic path management
• Activating channel sub-system priority queing
  • Objectives
  • Dispatch Priorities
  • Domains
• Review of important  SYS1.PARMLIB members 
• Virtual Storage Exploitation
  • Addressing Schemes
  • I/O Handling
  • System Configuration
  • LLA and VLF
  • Hyperspaces 
• The Central Electronic Complex (CEC)
• PR/SM and LPARS 
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)  or Enginer  
  • Program Status Word (PSW)
  • Hardware
  • General Registers
  • Floating Point Registers
  • Prefix Registers
  • Clock Comparator and CPU Timer
  • Control Registers

z/OS COMPONENTS

• Paging System
  • RSM (frames)
  • ASM (slots)
  • VSM (pages)
• Dispatcher
• IOS
• SRM
• Interrupts
  • Machine Check
  • Program Check
    • Storage Violations (S0C4)
    • Data Exceptions (S0C7)
    • Operation Exceptions (S0C1)
    • Page Faults
  • I/O
  • Supervisor Calls
  • Restart
  • External
• Multi programming
  • PSW and Interrupts Interfacing
• General MVS Introduction and Overview Continued
  • The Channel Subsystem
  • CHPIDS
  • CONTROL UNITS
  • I/O DEVICES
• Storage Sizes
• Real Storage
• Virtual Storage
• Addressing Virtual Storage 
  • Frames
  • Slots
  • Pages
• Available Frame Queue (AFQ)
  • Page Stealing
• Types of Addresses
• Page/Frame Table
• Storage Key
• SQA Overflow Into CSA
  • Freeing Storage
• Breakdown of the PSW display
  • Address Spaces
    • Working Together (Hierarchy)
    • Single
    • Paging/Swapping
    • Impact of too many Address Spaces
  • The Virtual Storage MAP 
• Address Space Description
• Extended Frames

z/OS DYNAMICS (Visual Flow)

• Error Recovery Support
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Data
  • System Generation
  • Visual Flow
• Work Load Levelling
  • Review of System Resource Manager (SRM)
  • Review of Work Load Manager
  • Physical Swapping
  • Logical Swapping
• Review of performance managemnt
  • Service classes
  • Workloads
  • Resource groups
  • Classification rules
  • Dispatch priority
  • Multi programming level
  • Work load balance across sysplex
  • Creating service definition
  • Creating service policies
  • Objectives
  • Dispatch Priority

IV. REVIEW OF OBJECTIVE GRAPH WORKSHOP, WORK LOAD LEVELING,

SYSTEM BALANCE, IPL, CACHE

• Review of Resource Management Facility (RMF)
  • RMF Summary
  • Channel Path Activity
  • Paging Activity
  • Page/Swap Data Set Activity
  • Virtual Storage Summary
• Physical I/O
  • Types of Channels
  • Channel Program
  • Breakdown of Channel Status Word (CSW) 
• Initial Program Load (IPL)
  • Behind the Scenes View
  • Summarization

V. SYSPLEX  ARCHITECTURE

• Data Sharing
• Application exploitation
• Hardware Environments in a Sysplex
• Coupling Facilities
• Coupling Links
• Sysplex Groups and Members
• Vouple datasets
• CFRM Policy
• Sysplex Timers