SMP/E for z/OS Workshop Training in South Africa

  • Learn via: Classroom
  • Duration: 5 Days
  • Price: From €4,225+VAT
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These courses are being delivered by an IBM Global Training Provider

This course is designed to provide the SMP/E skills needed in the installation and maintenance of optional features and maintenance in the z/OS operating environment. You are taught to define the SMP/E database and invoke SMP/E to add, modify, or replace system elements. The course includes extensive hands-on labs using a current level of SMP/E.

You will get practical experience in the SMP/E tasks involved in installing a z/OS product. Emphasis is on interpreting results of SMP/E processing. SMP/E concepts examined in this course include modification control statements, the consolidated software inventory, zone structure, and error analysis. SMP/E commands such as RECEIVE, APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE, REPORT, and LIST are discussed.

You will also learn how to perform automated SMP/E delivery of z/OS and product maintenance over the Internet with an automated SMP/E process that downloads and installs IBM preventive and corrective service over the Internet.

Required Skills and Knowledge

Use basic JCL statements Describe the use of the following z/OS utility programs: assembler, linkage editor, IEBCOPY, IEBUPDTE, and AMASPZAP Identify the access method services commands and parameters used in creating a VSAM KSDS Use ISPF/PDF panels

This knowledge and these skills can be acquired on the job or by completing one or more of the following education offerings:

Fundamental Practical System Skills in z/OS , (ES10) (ES10A) z/OS VSAM and Access Method Services, (SS83) (H3840)
The students new to z/OS could benefit from attending z/OS Facilities (ES15) (ES150) for additional basic z/OS knowledge.

  • Describe how SMP/E is used as a tool for system maintenance
  • Interpret modification control statements in a sample SYSMOD
  • Create a consolidated software inventory database to support installation and maintenance requirements
  • Use the SMP/E dialogs to install a product and its related service
  • Manage exception SYSMOD data
  • Describe the use of the primary and secondary data sets required by SMP/E Analyze output from SMP/E processing and resolve commonly encountered problems Describe the use of the REPORT command to determine software dependencies between zones Use the BUILDMCS process to create a function SYSMOD from an installed product and its service
  • Use the new SMP/E functions to install software service automatically over the internet
  • Implement support for communication server FTP client
  • Use the new RECEIVE ORDER command to order and install z/OS maintenance automatically over the Internet

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Upcoming Trainings

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17 August 2024
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
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25 September 2024
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04 October 2024
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