BMC Mainframe: Storage Management Administration & Exploitation
The course is developed and delivered by © RSM Technology.
This popular four-day course describes and explains how to implement and exploit the features provided by the z/OS storage environment and covers SMS in particular. It examines both hardware and software features and explains how to exploit them to the full. In addition, the course will give attendees a detailed knowledge of how best to design and test the SMS Constructs and ACS routines.
The course also provides a basis for evaluating standards and for establishing an optimized System Managed Storage (SMS) environment. Key components such as catalogs, VTOCs and I/O definitions are all fully explained.
There are a number of challenging online practical sessions during the course which, among other things, teach how to write optimized ACS routines
Major release:
BMC Mainframe Infrastructure Platform Training
Good for:
Administrators
Course Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training (ILT) | 32 hours
Course Modules
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Storage Management Overview
- What is storage management?
- Space management roles
- DFSMS products
- DFSMS Optimizer
- NaviQuest feature
- Advantages of an SMS environment
- Availability management
- Performance management
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Data Storage Hardware
- Direct Access Storage Devices
- I/O operations on disks
- DASD performance reporting
- caching concepts
- Read Hit
- Write commands
- Write Hit
- Read Miss
- Write Miss
- cache modes
- Record Level caching
- Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC)
- Extended Remote Copy (XRC)
- Concurrent Copy
- Extended Format Data Sets
- Sequential Data Striping support
- RAID technology
- Flashcopy
- Extended Address Volumes-
- Virtual Tape Servers
- Virtual Tape configurations
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Introduction to HCD
- I/O configuration principles
- I/O configuration practicalities
- I/O configuration addressing
- HCD definition process
- Objects managed by HCD
- Load member
- IODF processing at IPL
- HCD Primary Option menu
- Creating a new work IODF
- Sizing the work IODF
- Defining the new configuration menu
- Pull-down menu action bar
- Goto pull down menu
- Filter pull down menu
- Backup pull down menu
- Query pull down menu
- Help pull down menu
- Context menus
- PF keys
- Keyboard navigation
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Catalogs & VTOCs
- Catalog overview
- Catalog search order
- Catalog environment
- Multi- level aliases
- Catalog address space
- VTOC and IXVTOC
- Initializing DASD volumes
- VTOC & VTOCIX sizing
- Extending VTOC & VTOCIX
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Auditing SMS
- Working with users
- identify general requirements
- how to gather user data
- Negotiate service levels with users
- Space requirements
- Meeting space requirements
- Other space issues
- Availability issues
- Recovery
- Backup/Recovery
- Other service level issues
- Monitor service levels
- DCOLLECT
- Running DCOLLECT
- DCOLLECT output records
- Managing data sets
- PDSE processing
- PDSE load libraries
- Access Methods enhancements
- VSAM Record Level Sharing
- VSAM greater than 4 GB
- What is Pooling?
- Why pooling?
- How many pools?
- Positioning for SMS - review questions s
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Writing ACS Routines
- ACS routines - what are they?
- Automatic Class Selection - how many?
- an ACS example
- ACS routine rules
- ACS mask rules
- ACS Read/Write variables
- ACS Read-only variables
- ACS special purpose variables
- Other ACS variables
- OAM & tape ACS variables
- ACS operations
- ACS statements (PROC, END, SET, FILTLIST)
- ACS statements (SELECT, END)
- Coding ACS routines
- ACS application selection
- ACS translation panel
- ACS validation panel
- Testing ACS routines
- Defining test cases
- ACS coding tips
- ACS exit routines
- ACS exit steps
- Programming ACS exits
- ACS exit parameter structure
- Actions in ACS exits
- ACS routines - hands-on exercises
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DFSMS Set-up & Control
- Control Data Sets
- sizing SMS Control Data Sets
- defining Control Data Sets
- Control Data Set application selection
- SCDS base definition panel
- IGDSMSxx
- IEFSSNxx
- activating SMS
- SETSMS command
- SMS- related commands
- displaying SMS information
- displaying Storage Group information
- displaying SMS volume information
- displaying device information
- Start/Restart SMS address space
- recovering ACDS
- recovering COMMDS
- enhanced ISMF
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HSM Functional Overview
- HSM as part of SMS
- Key commands
- Migration types
- Defining ML1 volumes
- Small data set packing
- Secondary migration
- Controlling migration from ML0
- Interval Migration
- Command migration
- Recalling datasets
- Recall process
- Backup flow
- Backup control
- Command backup – volume
- BACKVOL examples
- Backup command
- Controlling command backup - SETSYS DSBACKUP
- Controlling command backup - ML1 overflow
- Command backup - dataset