CA Unicenter TNG OS/390
Duration
7 to 10 hours
Overview
Audience
Operations personnel, systems administrators and others seeking knowledge of the operations features and functions of the CA Unicenter Framework product specific to the OS/390 platform.
Prerequisites
Unicenter Basic Operations CBT, knowledge of OS/390 operations tasks, TSO and ISPF, and a basic understanding of the management of large-scale networks, including multiple operating systems and network devices.
Objectives
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
• View events and take appropriate action within an OS/390 enterprise.
• Understand the administration of Workload Management, Event Management, File Management, Security Management, Problem Management, and Performance Management.
• Understand the use of existing CA management applications (CA-1, CA-7, CA-MICS) and how these can be used to manage an enterprise system with the mainframe as the center of operations.
Course Content
Unicenter TNG for OS/390 Overview
Overview of Unicenter
Brief History of Products
Concepts of Management and Common Services
Overview of the Display Options
Description of the Basic Manager/Agent Philosophy
Description of the Common Object Repository
Operating System Preparation
Resource Initialization Manager - CAIRIM
Overview of the Product
Installation of OS/390 Interfaces
Initialization of System Resources Prior to Startup of CA Products
Processing of SMF Data
Installation Verification
Automated Responses to Success of Startup
Automated Startup of Software
Startup of Selected Software Based on Success of Installation Verification
License Management Program (CA LMP)
Overview of the Product
Using CA LMP
Disaster Recovery Situations
Error Handling
Standard Security Facility (CAISSF)
Overview of the Product
Interaction with ACF2, Top Secret, and RACF
Initialization of CAISSF
Event Notification Facility (CAIENF)
Overview of ENF System
Starting/Stopping the System
Viewing Names in the System
The Need to Define as an OS/390 Subsystem
Information Database Administration
Defining, Loading, Retention Definition
Backup, Restore, Compression
Parallel Sysplex Considerations
CICS
Automatic/Manual Initiation
Selective Activation of CICS Intercepts
CICS Spawn
Overview of the Product
Automatic/manual Initiation
Control Options
DB2
Initiation of DB2 Intercepts
Refreshing the DB2 Intercepts
UNIX System Services
Overview of the Product
Initiation of Intercepts
Re-initialize of Intercepts
System Messages
SNMP Monitor
Overview of the product
Starting the Monitor
Stopping the Monitor
Communication Between Unicenter Products
Common Communications Interface (CA-CCI)
What is CCI?
Cross Product Communication
Cross System Communication
Spawning a Service
Queuing of Received Data
Assured Delivery Option
Start/Stopping a Communications Service
Tracing a Communications Problem
Testing a New Configuration
Global Subsystem (CA-GSS)
Overview of GSS Cross Memory Services
Description of the Types of Customization Available Using GSS
IMODS
Security Concerns
Creating an IMOD
Installation Options
Starting/Stopping GSS
CA Services (CA-L-SERV)
Overview of Server Services and Products
Centralized Logging
Centralized Messaging
File Management (VSAM)
Cross System Communications
Database Management
Components
Kernel
Communications Server
File Server
SQL Server
Starting and Stopping the Servers
Displaying Information on the Servers
Error Detection - Logs and Dumps
Database Technology (DATACOM/TR)
Where Datacom is Used in the System
Architecture (OS/390 versus PC) and System Components
Multi-user Facility Advantages
Operations Tasks
Starting/Stopping the Multi-user Facility
Backup/Restore of Multi-user Facility
Viewing Status of The System
Monitoring and Tuning
Additional Utilities
Cross Platform Scheduling (CA-XPS)
Reporting Unit (EARL)
Overview
Using the Report Writer
Create a Report
The Data
Pre-sort Process
Report Layout
Post-Sort Process
Debugging a Report
Sort Service (SRAM)
Inter-product Facility (CAIVPE)
C Runtime Facility (CA-C Runtime)
Documentation on 3270 Devices (CA-DocView)
