Introduction to z/OS UNIX
- Recommended Duration:
- 3 Days
- Version
- z/OS UNIX
- Benefits
- Benefits Students who complete this course will be able to use many of the capabilities of UNIX System Services running under z/OS. This is an intense, practical encounter with the UNIX world as implemented on the z/OS platform.
- Audience
- Programmers experienced with working in an OS/390 or z/OS environment who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run using z/OS UNIX.
- Prerequisites
- At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong background in using TSO/ISPF under OS/390 or z/OS.
- Major Topics
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- Introduction to z/OS UNIX
- IDs and profiles
- Shell commands
- The OMVS interface
- Environment variables
- The Hierarchical File System (HFS)
- File permissions
- File copying and moving
- Displaying, editing, and browsing data in the HFS
- Piping and redirection
- ISHELL facility
- Introduction to UNICODE
- Locales and Internationalization
- Compressing, uncompressing, archiving and unarchiving HFS data
- Introduction to the Web - Web servers on z/OS
- Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML, XML)
- Creating and maintaining Web pages on the mainframe
- Accessing HFS files through batch jobs
- Accessing z/OS UNIX via telnet
- Exercises
- There are 18 hands-on exercises, as well as a number of structured Computer Experiments.