IBM ESC8G - z/OS 2.3 Update

Course Outline

• z/OS V2R3 overview

• Enhancements to the BCP

• Sysplex enhancements

• Data management enhancements

• UNIX System Services enhancements (USS)

• Communication Server enhancements

• System security and RACF enhancements

• Installation and migration of z/OS 2.3

Objective

• List the main enhancements in z/OS V2R3.
• Describe and implement, where necessary, the other enhancements packaged with z/OS V2.3 including:
• The BCP includes the I/O configuration program (IOCP), the Workload Manager (WLM), System Management Facilities (SMF), HCD/HCM, the program management binder, Language Environment, Global resource serialization, z/OS sysplex, cross-system coupling facility (XCF), Coupling Facility Resource Manager (CFRM), SFM, System Logger and other components like BCPii, z/OS Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) and z/OS Job Entry Subsystem 2 (JES2), JES3, SDSF, z/OS Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), time-sharing option (TSO), REXX.
• The z/OS Management Facility (zOSMF).

• The USS kernel, USS shell, and related file system services.

• Data storage management which includes Extended Address Volumes, DFSMSdfp, DFSMSdss, and DFSMShsm.

• Communications Server which includes features of the TCP/IP address space, general IP, and SNA modernization.

• System security - RACF.

• Plan for and install the z/OS V2.3 system.