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This course teaches you navigation, operation, and recovery techniques for the Hardware Management Console (HMC) in the System z environment. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, you learn setup and operating procedures for the HMC, gain in-depth problem determination skills, practice HMC operations, and utilize recovery capabilities provided by the System z servers.

This course is for operations personnel and technical staff who are directly involved in the installation, operation, systems support, and software support of their System z mainframe environment.

You should have an understanding of:

Basic data processing and I/O concepts and terminology
z/OS console operation, including display of device, job, and console status

Identify the zEnterprise 196, System z10, System z9, and zSeries servers
Describe the major differences of the function and features between the System z servers
Identify and explain the concept of logical partitioning, initialization, and the operational usage of the various types of channels on current servers
Describe the functions provided by the HMC and SE
- User interface styles, local and remote connectivity
Identify HMC home page to log on HMC application
Use the classic UI to:
Log on and log off
Open objects
Navigate the HMC workplace using various selection techniques
Exit a task on a window
View the online books and use the Help functions
Identify the different types of groups
- CPC group, control hardware
- Images group, control operating system
Build new CPC and images groups
Identify the contents of the Details window and determine object status
Identify the various task lists
Use the tree UI to:
Log on and log off
Open objects
Navigate the HMC workplace using various selection techniques
Exit a task on a panel
View the online books and use the Help functions
Identify the different types of groups
- CPC group, control hardware
- Images group, control operating system
Build new CPC and images groups
Identify the contents of the Details window and determine object status
Identify the various task lists
Identify recent HMC Tree style enhancements
Monitor all defined CPCs
Determine the cause of exceptions
Use the Hardware Messages task
Use the Operating Systems Messages task
Use ACSADMIN tasks
Describe the purpose, functions and use of the different types of activation profiles
Use the HMC to build and assign profiles
Provide operational recommendations for HMC user settings
Use the HMC to perform operational tasks and problem determination
Invoke the system activity display and describe its purpose
Establish an HMC/SE session using the Single Object Operations task
Identify the difference between the HMC and SE workplace
Navigate using classic or tree UI to Identify CP, channel, and CHPID status for the physical CPC and all LPs
Identify the entry point for I/O and Channel Problem Determination panels
Log off from a CPC session

Day 1

Welcome
Unit 1: IBM mainframe server hardware overview
Unit 2: Using the HMC Classic style user interface
Unit 3: Using the HMC Tree style user interface
Unit 4: Using the HMC to monitor System z servers
Supporting labs

Day 2

Review
Unit 5: Activation profiles and operational tasks
Unit 6: Single Object Operations: CPC session
Supporting labs

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05 July 2024