Production Scheduler z/OS Learning Plan

The production scheduler is responsible for ensuring

production batch processing deadlines and
IBM (z/OS) - schedules are met. Typical duties associated with
Introduction to the IBM this position are:
Enterprise Environment
4 hrs • Scheduling of production batch jobs

• Defining new production batch schedules and

maintaining existing ones
DevOps - Introduction z/VM - Concepts,
Introduction to the IBM z/OS - Concepts and Introduction to Cloud Ensuring Data Center Big Data, Hadoop, and Blockchain z/OS UNIX System • Analysing and resolving problems associated
to DevOps in the System Initialization
Z Systems Components Computing Business Continuity Analytics Technologies Services - Basics with batch jobs and job output
Workplace and Shutdown
5 hrs 6 hrs 1 hr 7 hrs 3 hrs 3 hrs 4 hrs 4 hrs 3 hrs
• Defining restart requirements for batch jobs

z/VM - Monitoring and

Parallel Sysplex - Understanding Cloud Machine Learning and
Controlling z/VM IBM Z Hardware Models
Fundamentals Architecture Spark
Operations
5 hrs 5 hrs 3 hrs 3 hrs 4 hrs
Approximate number of training hours - 245

Managing IBM Z
Linux on IBM Z z/Architecture –
Enterprise System
Fundamentals Processing Workloads This Learning Plan represents an industry standard
Hardware
education plan for this job role. Please note that
5 hrs 1 hr 5 hrs
the equivalent job role at your organization may
use different software applications or require
z/Architecture – Mem ory,
Address Spaces, and greater or lesser levels of expertise in any area.
Virtual Storage Please check our site regularly to see what new or
3 hrs updated courses have been added to this plan!

Cryptography

1 hr

z/OS - z/OS Concepts

Assessment
1 hr

IBM MQ – Introduction
to IBM MQ
4 hrs

z/OS - Monitoring the SMP/E - Introduction to

z/OS System SMP/E
5 hrs 3 hrs

SA z/OS – Introduction
to IBM Z System
Automation
1 hr

JES2 - System Comms - IBM Mainframe

Managed File Transfer
Initialization and Communications
Operations
Shutdown Concepts
3 hrs 5 hrs 5 hrs

JES2 - Monitoring Batch

Jobs with JES2
4 hrs

JES2 - Using JES2 in

Scheduling Batch Jobs
5 hrs

JES2 - Concepts and

Operation Assessment
1 hr

JES2 - Identify and

Resolve JES2 Batch
Problems
5 hrs

SDSF - Concepts and

Operation
8 hrs

SDSF - Using SDSF to SDSF - Using SDSF to

SDSF - Using SDSF to
Display, Manipulate and Manage System
Control Job Processing
Print Job Output Resources and Devices
7 hrs 6 hrs 6 hrs

ISPF (z/OS) - Using

Online System Facilities
– TSO/ISPF
5 hrs

ISPF (z/OS) - TSO/ISPF

Concepts Assessment
1 hr

ISPF (z/OS) - Managing ISPF (z/OS) -

Data Files and Definitions Maintaining Data in Files
with ISPF/PDF with the ISPF Editor
5 hrs 7 hrs

ISPF (z/OS) - TSO/ISPF

Operation Assessment
2 hrs

Storage - Introduction
to Storage and Disk
Systems
3 hrs

Storage -
Understanding Tape
Storage
3 hrs

JCL (z/OS) -
Introduction to JCL
3 hrs

JCL (z/OS) - JCL

Concepts Assessment
1 hr

JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding

Basics – JOB and EXEC
Statements
4 hrs

JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding

Basics – DD
Statements
6 hrs

JCL (z/OS) - Working

JCL (z/OS) - Advanced
with Procedures and
JCL Data Set Use
Symbols
5 hrs 3 hrs

JCL (z/OS) - JCL Coding

Assessment
1 hr

zWS - Understanding How Introduction to the

Utilities - General Data VSAM - Introduction to z/OS Explorer - IBM Interacting with the
Utilities - Data Utilities IBM Z Workload Scheduler REXX Programming
Set Utilities Processes Work VSAM Explorer for z/OS z/OS UNIX System
Language
4 hrs 5 hrs 3 hrs 6 hrs 4 hrs 2 hrs 4 hrs

zWS - Monitoring and Working with

Managing the IBM Z
zWS - Scheduling with z/OS UNIX
IBM Z Workload
Workload Scheduler Scheduler
Environm ent 4 hrs
6 hrs 6hrs

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