Storage management administration & exploitation

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 optimised 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 optimised ACS routines.

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• explain IBM''s storage management concept as implemented through SMS
• exploit the hardware features utilised by SMS
• define I/O devices and get them recognised by z/OS
• define VTOCs and VTOCIXs
• administer ICF Catalogs
• define and maintain data classes, storage classes, management classes and storage groups
• write and maintain optimised ACS routines
• audit and optimise the SMS environment
• describe the functions of HSM.