Advanced Tivoli System Automation for z/OS Programming

    

Summary:
This course is designed to help the technical staff learn the advanced skills needed to fully automate and manage an IBM z/OS operating system using IBM's Tivoli System Automation for z/OS and NetView software products.

Duration:
3 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is intended for automation analysts and system programmers who are responsible for customizing SA z/OS.

Topics:

• Tivoli System Automation for z/OS and NetView review
• Automation policy definition review
• New System Automation for z/OS features
• System Automation for z/OS Installation Overview
• Advanced automation table coding
• Extending SA z/OS with NetView REXX and panels
• SA z/OS automation application case study
• Getting data into and out of NetView
• Automating management of SA z/OS (implementing change control, automatically generating operator documentation)
• Interfacing SA z/OS to third-party job schedulers
• Interfacing SA z/OS with the NetView Management Console (NMC)
• Deploying and using the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) Interfaces
• Interfacing SA z/OS to off-platform systems management tools, such as e-mail, trouble ticketing, and paging systems
• Understanding and exploiting the Resource Object Data Manager (RODM)
• Case study Interfacing NetView and System Automation for z/OS based applications with the IBM HTTP Web Server
• Hints and tips for successful, reliable, high performance operation

Prerequisites:
Attendees should be familiar with MVS in general, the REXX programming language and have a good working knowledge of MVS console operations in a SysPlex environment. ProTech courses MVS Skill Pack, MVS System Operation, and REXX Programming in a NetView Environment provide this background knowledge.

Last Update: May 20, 2012