TCP/IP for z/OS Operation. Network interfaces

TCP/IP for z/OS Operation. Network interfaces

Learn the concepts and functions that will provide you with good skills about TCP/IP operation in IBM Mainframe environment.

Build a foundation in z/OS TCP/IP with this tutorial for beginners.

Most of the applications running under z/OS are accessible through IP networks. IBM Communications Server for z/OS implements TCP/IP for connecting terminals or applications with host applications. z/OS TCP/IP provides many functions and services in the most secure and high-performance server worldwide.

A Powerful Skill at Your Fingertips Learning the fundamentals of TCP/IP for z/OS gives you a solid understanding about how a IBM mainframe network functions, and the skills to go forward in the networking area.

What am I going to get from this course?

Students completing the course will have the knowledge to understand how TCP/IP works, which type of interfaces can be defined, which network types could be connected to a mainframe, and how to operate them. This course is focused in the networking part of z/OS TCP/IP (devices, static routing, and connectivity). Dynamic routing, applications and VIPA will be covered in another course.

• Learn in a short time very specialized matters only available, up to now, attending private and expensive courses.
• First, you will start learning where TCP/IP is placed into z/OS Communications Server, how and where to issue commands (TSO, console and Unix System Services) to display configuration and status of TCP/IP resources.
• Several networking technologies can be attached to a IBM mainframe and several interfaces can be defined in TCP/IP. QDIO devices that permit to have connectivity with Ethernet networks, MPC or CTC devices that permit to use point-to-point links, or “virtual” links as Hipersocket will be explained.
• Several demos in a real system with two z/OS interconnected will show you how to operate TCP/IP: commands to be used, how to understand the responses, start/stop devices, display IP addresses, display static routing tables, change parameters dynamically, and check connectivity through Ethernet, Hipersocket or CTC devices.

An introduction to network interfaces operation on mainframe. It includes hands-on exercises on a real Parallel Sysplex.

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What you will learn

• This course will provide you the basics of TCP/IP for z/OS.

Rating: 4

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Fran Rubi