The Complete Mainframe Professional Course - 4 Courses in 1
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Try Udemy for Business- Students will be able to Install their own Mainframe Operating system on their Personal Computer
- Students will learn 20+ TSO and ISPF Commands on Mainframe computer
- Students will learn all the major ISPF commands and understand ISPF operations
- Students will learn how to code JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE
- You will also learn how to connect to a Mainframe
- Students will learn how to create datasets on a Mainframe and perform operations on them
- You will learn what a Mainframe is?
- Difference between a Mainframe and a Supercomputer
- Mainframe Manufacturers in the world today
- The History of IBM Mainframes
- Operating Systems used on Mainframe computers
- Identify the various Mainframe Technologies.
- Programming Languages used on Mainframes today
- Different types of Processing done on a Mainframe
- Learn about Industries where Mainframes are used
- This will build a base to learn further about Application programming on Mainframes
- Learn about IBM Master the Mainframe Contest
- Access to a mainframe will be beneficial but is not necessary.
- No previous experience in mainframe required.
- For completing VSAM and CICS, access to a z/OS mainframe is required.
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This course is a collection of 4 courses.
It covers TSO/ISPF commands in detail. The ISPF commands taught in the course are exhaustive.
After TSO/ISPF it covers Job Control Language basics.
It then teaches COBOL basics.
VSAM is covered in detail.
CICS along with 2 projects is explained in the ending of the course.
After this course you will have a full overview of the Mainframe environment.
The course also covers Master the Mainframe Contest details. The contest ended on Dec 31, 2019. But you can still complete the contest and earn IBM badges.
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Over 17 hours of video content and 200+ lectures.
4 COBOL Assignments, 2 Mini projects in CICS and a Practice test.
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Build a foundation in Mainframe with this tutorial.
You will Learn:
What a Mainframe Computer is.
The various Technologies and Terminologies associated with Mainframes.
Running TSO/ISPF Commands on a Mainframe
Creating datasets and performing operations on them
Identify the different programming languages and Operating systems used on mainframe
ISPF commands
TSO commands
JCL in detail
VSAM in detail
Basics of CICS
Basics of COBOL
and much much more......
Mainframe is extensively used in large corporations which deal with huge amount of data every day. Over 70% of the global Fortune 500 companies use Mainframe to run their business for everything from cloud to mobile to big data and analytics. Now, there are 1.1 million customer transactions per second on Mainframes compared with just 40,000 searches on Google per second. IBM is the leading manufacturer of the Mainframe Systems.
Content and Overview Through this course of over 16 hours of content, you’ll learn about the Mainframes and establish an understanding of the mainframe system.
Starting with an overview of the Mainframes, this course will take you through the types of datasets, Operating systems and data processing used on mainframes.
With these basics mastered, the course will take you through TSO commands, will introduce you to ISPF commands, allocation of datasets and then the different operations you can perform on the datasets.
It will then cover JCL, VSAM, COBOL and CICS.
Upon completion you will be literate in Mainframe terminology, understand how datasets are created, and how you can use commands to operate on the data in these datasets. You will gain enough knowledge to self learn further Mainframe topics such as CICS.
- Anyone who wants to start a career in Mainframes but dont know where to start.
- IT professionals looking for a switch in their careers.
- Mainframe Professionals who want to brush up their knowledge about mainframes.
An introduction to this course. You can see everything that you will learn in this course in this article. Same article is available as a PDF attached with this article.
We need three things to work on a Mainframe Computer. We need a Mainframe Computer Hardware. Then we need an Operating System to install on it and then we need a Terminal to connect to the Mainframe. The Mainframe Hardware can be emulated using the Hercules Emulator. Hercules Emulator is a Software that behaves like a Mainframe. Then we can use the OS/VS2 operating system which is a FREE operating system for Mainframes. For a Terminal we can use a 3270 Terminal Emulator.
In this lecture the full procedure to download the softwares required to work on a Mainframe is explained. The software MVS Turnkey 3.8j system is also explained. All the material required to take this course is explained as well.
The full process to install the softwares to work on a Mainframe is explained in this lecture. The procedure is extremely simple. The cryptoTerm can be easily installed by just launching the installer. The MVS Turnkey system just needs to be extracted and the console mode should be switched on.
Since the softwares are now installed we can boot the MVS up and use it. The act of booting up MVS is called Initial Program Load (IPL) on Mainframes. The full process of IPL is explained in detail in this lecture.
After the IPL is over we will connect to it using CryptoTerm Terminal emulator. Once the login screen arrives we will logon to the TSO environment. TSO stands for Time sharing Option. The username for MVS is HERC01 and password is cul8tr.
Sometimes the Login screeen does not appear. You will see the turnkey symbol without the login option. In that case you can just click on anywhere on the screen and press the enter key. Then enter the username HERC01. It will then ask you for a password. Enter CUL8TR and press enter key again. You will then be logged on to the MVS. This procedure is also explained in this lecture.
Once the work we need to do on a Mainframe is complete we can logoff from the system. We can use the logoff command to accomplish this. The logoff command is entered on the READY prompt.
To shutdown the system we have to enter shutdown on the READY prompt and then press enter. This will submit the shutdown job which will shutdown the system. After submitting this job we should ideally logoff from the system using the logoff command. The shutdown process will start and it will automatically close the MVS command prompt once it is over.
The previous lectures demonstrated how you can run a Mainframe on your own personal computer. When you work for a company then you will be provided with an IP address and a port number to connect to a Mainframe. You will also be given a username and a password to logon after connecting to it.
In that case you just need a Terminal Emulator to connect to a Mainframe. You have to enter the IP address and port number to connect to the mainframe. Once you are connected you can enter the username and password to logon to the TSO environment.
This article explain in detail the entire process to connect to a Company's Mainframe.
In this lecture i will show you, how you can connect to a Mainframe using c3270. In Ubuntu you can install c3270 using the command "sudo apt-get install c3270". For connecting to your Mainframe give command "c3270 ip address : port number". You will then be connected to your Mainframe.
The lecture describes how you can register for the Master the Mainframe contest that is currently going on. The 2019 Master the Mainframe contest began on September 9 and will end on December 31, 2019. You can register for the contest by following this lecture.
To login to your mainframe, you need to have a username and an initial password. This initial password has to be changed during the first login. Once you login you will be faced with a READY prompt. Some systems have automatically enabled the ISPF command while login. So you will get an ISPF panel after logging in. This lecture explains the login process in detail.
The Master the Mainframe Contest consists of 3 parts. Part one is all about the basics of a mainframe. In this challenge, you will submit JCL to allocate datasets. Learn about Unix system services. Do the copy operation between TSO and UNIX environment. This lecture is the solution to part one of the challenge.
IBM Badges are helpful in getting employment. To apply for jobs just click on the badges and it will show the skills learned through that badge. You can then click on that skill and it will list all the jobs that are currently available for that skill. You can then apply for that job. In this lecture, I will show you this procedure in detail.
You can display your IBM badge on LinkedIn. It will be shown in your Certifications section. In this video, I will show you how you can display your badge on LinkedIn and share it on your Social Media profiles such as Facebook, Twitter and your own website.
A Mainframe is a large, highly secure computer. It is built to run continuously and process large workloads. Large organizations use it to run their mission critical applications such as airline ticket booking and ATM transactions. This lecture describes Mainframe computers in detail.
The lecture starts with a scene from the movie THOR: RAGNARK which has reference to Mainframe Computer.
IBM and the seven dwarfs are explained in detail in this lecture. The seven dwarfs refer to the seven companies which gave competition to IBM in the Mainframe business. IBM was bigger than the seven dwarfs combined and is still the world leader in Mainframes.
The lecture starts with a scene from AVENGERS where Tony Stark is talking about Mainframe.
IBM is the world leader in Mainframe Manufacturing. IBM system 360 was released in 1964 which is the predecessor to the modern z14 mainframe. The journey from the sytem 360 to the modern mainframes is explained in detail in this lecture.
The lecture starts with a scene from the movie RESIDENT EVIL RETRIBUTION which has reference to Mainframe.
In 1964 IBM released the System/360 Mainframe. The development of this Mainframe was the second biggest project in the world in 1960s, only after the Apollo space program. The IBM system 360 turned out to be a huge success. The IBM system 360 is explained in detail in this lecture.
The lecture starts with a scene of the TV series MAD MEN, which has references to the system 360.
Mainframes are considered legacy by many, but still they are extensively used all over the world today. Writers even said that mainframe will die in late 90s but still they are being used and are being developed by IBM. The reasons for widespread use of Mainframe and the features of a Mainframe is explained in detail in this lecture.
The lecture starts with a scene from TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES which has reference to Mainframe.
You can interact with TSO using different modes.
Directly
Batch mode
Either you interact with it directly or you can interact with it using batch mode. The batch mode will use JCL to execute TSO commands. To interact with TSO directly you can use either
Line by line mode
Full-screen mode
In line by line mode, you will enter a command and TSO will return the result back to you.
In full-screen mode, you will enter a command such as ISPF and OMVS that will start a fullscreen application. You will then use these apps to interact with TSO.
This lecture is a white screen animation video that will explain to you in detail all these modes along with examples.
TSO commands can be executed using various ways.
READY prompt
ISPF command line
ISPF command shell
You can use any of the above to execute a TSO command. You can also use JCL to execute a TSO command. IKJEFT01 program is used to execute such a command. This lecture explains in detail, all the ways that can be used to execute a TSO command.
A file on a mainframe is called a dataset. In this lecture, the full procedure to create a dataset is explained. Also, the parameters which are required to create a dataset such as Record length, Primary space, Secondary space are also explained.
After completing this lecture you will be able to create PDS datasets on the MVS Turnkey system. You will be able to create a member inside these PDS datasets. And after creating these members you will be able to insert data inside your datasets.
DSLIST is used to view a list of all the datasets that we are working on. There are multiple views available in DSLIST. There are views such as
VOLUME view
ATTRIBUTE view
SPACE view
TOTAL view
Each view shows different information about the datasets. This lecture explains in detail all these views.