Overview

This course is designed to provide students with the skills required to install and customize IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) with z/OS 3.1, and use the functions and features provided by z/OSMF.

IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a product for z/OS that will simplify, optimize, and modernize the z/OS system programmer experience.

z/OSMF delivers solutions in a task-oriented, web browser-based user interface with integrated user assistance.

In this course, we introduce z/OS Management Facility and its architecture; and describe the components that are necessary to run z/OSMF on z/OS.

In this course, students will also learn the installation and customization of z/OS Management Facility, and will customize several system components to exploit the following z/OSMF functions:

• z/OSMF Software Management  
• Classic (ISPF) Interface 
• Incident Log 
• Configuration Assistant for the z/OS Communications Server 
• Workload Management 
• System Status, Resource Monitoring
• SDSF 
• z/OS Operator Console base function
• Import Manager task to import the applications into z/OSMF
• Sysplex management function
• Working with Workflows task and create workflows
• Working with the REST APis (jobs, dataset,...)
• Usage statistics

Audience

This course is intended for experienced system programmers and subsystem administrators responsible for installing and implementing z/OSMF in their enterprise. The students must have knowledge of z/OS and its subsystems, including TSO, ISPF and z/OS UNIX System Services (USS), and the skills normally required to install a z/OS product using SMP/E and batch jobs to update system data sets. RACF knowledge is useful, as well as WebSphere Liberty profile for z/OS. 

Prerequisites

You should have a good knowledge of z/OS at the level of a z/OS system programmer, acquired on the job or through the z/OS curriculum, including skills required to install and customize z/OS UNIX applications.

If the above prerequisites are not met, then the courses listed in the Curriculum are recommended.

Objective

• Describe the purpose and benefit of z/OS Management Facility
• Describe the functions provided by z/OS Management Facility 
• Describe the technical overview of z/OSMF features and architecture 
• Describe the z/OSMF client and server operating environment 
• Describe the systems management tasks and updates with every release 
• Indicate list of publications and references 
• Describe setup and configuration overall process: 
  • Configure z/OS prerequisites for plug-ins 
  • Configure z/OSMF 
• Explain any migration issues or concerns 
• Describe the details of each function, updated for each release of z/OSMF 
• Understand the detailed examples of how to use the z/OSMF features 
• Describe the z/OSMF tasks (and release of z/OS and z/OSMF that was introduced) 
• Manage the z/OSMF Administration: 
  • Adding users, defining roles, new SAF-based authorization 
  • Add Links 
• Exploit the various z/OSMF functions and plugins
  • You will be able to pick and choose which functions and plugins you want to deploy and exploit

Course Outline

Day 1(00:30) Welcome (01:00) Unit 1: z/OS Management Facility: Overview (03:00) Unit 2: z/OS Management Facility: Implementation and configuration (01:00) Exercise 1: z/OSMF planning and prerequisites(01:00) Exercise 2: z/OS Management Facility configuration and setupDay 2(01:00) Exercise 2: continued(03:00) Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility: Usage(01:30) Exercise 3: z/OS Management Facility Logging, Adding plug-ins and the user interface.Day 3(01:00) Unit 3: z/OS Management Facility: Usage (cont)(03:00) Exercise 4: z/OS Management Facility plugins exploitation (02:00) Exercise 5: z/OS Management Facility Workflows and REST APIs exploitation (01:00) Exercise 6: z/OS Management Facility WLM, Resource Management and performance exercise.(00:30) Wrap-up