Course Overview

Introduction to concepts and fundamental skills for Linux users who run applications and services in Linux environments, but do not perform Linux system administration.

Getting Started with Linux Fundamentals (RH104) is designed for IT professionals and business users who access Linux systems, and run Linux-based applications and services, but have little to no previous UNIX or Linux experience. This course introduces Linux concepts and fundamental skills to Linux users who do not manage or administer Linux systems. Professionals who require system administration skills should instead take Red Hat System Administration I (RH124).

Course Objectives

  • Introducing Linux by comparing user-relevant component distinctions between popular Linux distributions
  • Logging in and out of local and remote Linux systems, both with passwords and by using passwordless keys
  • Working with a graphical desktop environment and applications
  • Working from a command line, including operating shell environments and programs
  • Navigating Linux file systems and locating and running programs and applications
  • Distinguishing between text and binary files, and using various editing tools to modify text files
  • Organizing files and directories, and configuring permissions to provide file security
  • Verifying core system configuration, such as network addresses, running services, and storage space

Course Content

Introduction to Linux

Define and explain the purpose of Linux, and Linux distributions.

Accessing a Linux System

Interact with the GNOME desktop, and query the terminal environment.

Managing Files in Linux

Use graphical and command-line tools to create and modify text files, and to identify binary files.

File Systems Overview

View and manage file organization in a Linux system.

Users and File Permissions

Interact with user accounts and identify file permissions.

Obtaining and Installing Software Packages

Obtain and install software from official repositories and other sources.

Linux Networking and System Resources

Describe fundamental concepts of networking, verify network settings, and monitor system resources.

Course Overview

This course is designed to teach students the fundamental practical skills to navigate and work in a z/OS environment.

This course consists of a mixture of theoretical and practical sections. The major objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the everyday activities involved in working in a z/OS environment. Therefore, the main focus is on the class exercises.

This includes the use of ISPF/PDF dialogs, TSO/E commands, JCL, z/OS Management Facility, UNIX System Services shell, and BookManager.

This course consists of several independent modules. The modules, including the lab exercises, stand on their own and do not depend on any other content.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

After this course participants should be able to:

  • Summarize the components of the IBM Z platform. 
  • Interpret the benefits of security in a z/OS environment. 
  • Analyze how TSO ISPF panels manage the z/OS environment. 
  • Implement TSO commands to manage the z/OS environment. 
  • Distinguish the purpose and functions of JES and JCL. 
  • Describe the purpose, benefits, and functions provided by z/OSMF.
  • Execute UNIX processes.

Course Content

This course teaches:

  • How to log on to the z/OS system.
  • How to work with TSO/E, ISPF/PDF, and the UNIX System Services shell.
  • How to create, copy, rename, and delete z/OS data sets.
  • How to work with UNIX System Services files.
  • How to execute CLISTs and REXX execs.
  • How to submit jobs for execution and view the output online.

Day 1

  • Unit 1 – Review of ESA/390 and z/Architecture and z/OS
  • Unit 2 – An Introduction to ISPF, ISPF/PDF, and RACF
  • Unit 3 – Working with ISPF/PDF(Part 1) 

Day 2

  • Unit 3 – Working with ISPF/PDF(Part 2) 

Day 3

  • Unit 4 : TSO Commands
  • Unit 5 Working with JCL (continued)

Day 4

  • Review
  • Unit 6 UNIX system Services (part 1)

Day 5

  • Unit 6 UNIX system (Part 2)
  • Review and close out

Course Overview

This course prepares you to be a more effective security administrator as you gain experience and confidence in using the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server. To reinforce lectures, the course offers hands-on exercises where you use the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server to define users, set up group structures, define general resources, protect z/OS data sets, and use several RACF utilities.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Identify the security requirements of a system
  • Evaluate the facilities and options of RACF
  • Define users to RACF
  • Set up a RACF group structure
  • Use RACF to protect resources
  • Select options to tailor RACF
  • Evaluate and implement RACF database and performance options
  • Identify tools available for auditing
  • Administer the system so that it is consistent with the installation’s security goals

Course Content

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1 – Security and RACF overview
  • Unit 2 – Administering groups and users
  • Exercise 1 – Log on to the lab system
  • Exercise 2 – Defining a RACF group structure
  • Exercise 3 – User administration

Day 2

  • Exercise review
  • Unit 2 – Administering groups and users (continued)
  • Exercise 4 – Delegating security administration
  • Unit 3 – Protecting z/OS data sets
  • Exercise 5 – Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1

Day 3

  • Exercise 5 – Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1 (continued)
  • Exercise 6 – Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 2 Exercise review
  • Unit 4 – Introduction to user administration and delegation and general resources
  • Exercise 7 – Password reset granularity
  • Unit 5 – RACF database, tables, and performance options

Day 4

  • Unit 6 – RACF utilities and exits
  • Unit 7 – RACF options
  • Unit 8 – Auditing the RACF environment
  • Exercise 8 – Using RACF for TSO administration (Optional)
  • Exercise 9 – RACF utilities (Optional)
  • Exercise 10 – RACF monitoring

Day 5

  • Exercise review
  • Unit 9 – Storage management and RACF
  • Unit 10 – Security for JES facilities
  • Unit 11 – Security classification

Course Overview

This course prepares you to implement and manage DFSMShsm (DFSMS hierarchical storage manager). You will learn how to automate the storage management tasks, which optimize DASD space utilization and provide data availability. You will be taught basic DFSMShsm terminology and concepts, and you will examine the functions and interfaces used to tailor DFSMShsm processing to meet your installation’s storage management requirements.

Hands-on lab exercises enable you to perform a step-by-step implementation.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the relationship between DFSMShsm and DFSMS and get an overview of the functions of DFSMShsm and its operating environment.
  • Understand the DFSMShsm activities for Primary and Secondary Space Management and setup the required configuration for automatic space management.
  • Authorize special users for DFSMShsm commands and perform space management functions using authorized DFSMShsm commands.
  • Understand the DFSMShsm activities for Availability Management and setup the required configuration for automatic availability management.
  • Implement the Automatic Backup and Recovery Support (ABARS), and perform data set and volume management using authorized DFSMShsm commands.
  • Understand DFSMShsm processing in large systems.
  • Understand recovery using ABARS, recovery from data set or volume loss, recovery of control data sets and journals.
  • Use the AUDIT command to detect and fix discrepancies and the LIST, QUERY and FIXCDS commands to correct error situations.
  • Manage and monitor DFSMShsm using log data sets and statistical information as well as manage DFSMShsm tapes.

Course Content

Day 1

  • Welcome and introduction
  • Unit 1: Overview DFSMShsm functions and environment Exercise 1: ISMF introduction

Day 2

  • Exercise 1: Review
  • Unit 2: Space management
  • Exercise 2: Preparing DFSMShsm for space management Unit 3: Command space management
  • Exercise 3: Command space management

Day 3

  • Exercise 3: Review
  • Unit 4: Availability management
  • Exercise 4: Preparing DFSMShsm for availability management Unit 5: Command availability management
  • Exercise 5: Command availability management

Day 4

  • Exercise 5: Review
  • Unit 6: DFSMShsm in large systems Unit 7: Recovery
  • Exercise 6: Recovery
  • Unit 8: DFSMShsm forward recovery Exercise 7: Forward recovery

Day 5

  • Exercise 7: Review
  • Unit 9: Managing and monitoring DFSMShsm

Course Overview

This course provides the skills required to plan and implement Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS). A step-by-step implementation strategy, emphasizing coexistence considerations, is reinforced by hands-on labs. In the hands-on labs, students will be creating constructs as well as coding ACS routines. This milestone approach includes managing temporary and permanent data sets. The course also discusses exploitation of functions provided by DFSMS as the installation evolves to the DFSMS environment.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Establish a DFSMS configuration to automatically enforce your installation’s storage management policies
  • Convert service level requirements into appropriate parameters for data class, storage class, management class, and storage groups
  • Create and test automatic class selection (ACS) routines
  • Convert volumes and move data to system-managed volumes with data
  • facility data set services (DFSMSdss)
  • Specify appropriate management class and storage group parameters for
  • DFSMShsm processing of system-managed data sets
  • Establish procedures to control, manage, and recover the storage management subsystem with ISMF and operator commands
  • Develop a DFSMS implementation plan

Course Content

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1 – Course introduction and DFSMS overview Lab 1 – ISMF
  • Lab 1 – Review
  • Unit 2 – Activating SMS

Day 2

  • Lab 2 – Activating SMS with minimal configuration
  • Lab 2 – Review
  • Unit 3 – Writing ACS routines
  • Unit 4 – Managing temporary data sets Lab 3 – Managing temporary data sets

Day 3

  • Lab 3 – Review
  • Unit 5 – Exploiting DFSMS
  • Unit 6 – Managing permanent data sets Lab 4 – Managing permanent data sets

Day 4

  • Lab 4 – Review
  • Unit 7 – Using NaviQuest
  • Unit 8 – Device preparation and data movement Lab 5 – Volume and data set conversion to SMS Lab 5 – Review
  • Unit 9 – Controlling DFSMS Lab 6 – System operations
  • Unit 10 – Additional considerations

Course Overview

This course will get you the skills you need to run and manage an IBM i related cloud and DevOps environment. You will be introduced to the world of DevOps, Ansible, IBM PowerVC, Terraform, IBM Cloud Automation Manager and CI/CD concepts as they relate to IBM i. Learning these concepts will be easy with hands-on access to our lab environment. 

Completion of this course will get you an IBM badge!

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Summarize DevOps concepts as it applies to IBM i
  • Summarize Ansible planning and implementation concepts
  • Demonstrate an understanding of automation with Ansible Playbooks for IBM i
  • Integrate IBM PowerVC with Ansible in an IBM i environment
  • Summarize CI/CD concepts using Ansible on IBM i
  • Learn about using IBM Power Virtual Server (IBM PowerVS) with IBM i
  • Learn about Terraform with IBM i
  • Learn about IBM Cloud Automation Manager for a few hybrid cloud scenarios

Course Content

Day 1:

  • Course Administration and Introduction (00:30)
  • Unit 1: DevOps and Cloud Overview (01:30)
  • Unit 2: Ansible Overview and Administration (01:30)
  • Unit 3: Ansible Configuration and Playbooks (00:30)
  • Exercise 1: Verification of Prerequisites (01:00)
  • Exercise 2: IBM i Ansible Managed Node Setup (01:00)
  • Exercise 3: Ansible Controller on IBM i (01:00)

Day 2: 

  • Unit 4: Automate IBM PowerVC using Ansible on IBM i (01:00)
  • Unit 5: IBM PowerVS Concepts on IBM i (01:00)
  • Unit 6: IBM PowerVC integration with Terraform on IBM i (01:00)
  • Unit 7: Manage IBM i in a Hybrid Cloud Environment with IBM Cloud Automation Manager (CAM) (00:45)
  • Exercise 4: Run Ansible Playbooks from IBM i (01:00)
  • Exercise 5: Automating IBM i with Ansible and IBM PowerVC (01:00)
  • Exercise 6: IBM i Use Cases with Ansible (01:00)

Course Overview

Hands-on course for iSeries students who intend to write Control Language programs to simplify server management and make effective use of system resources.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students should be able to

  • Create CL programs to simplify system management tasks
  • Code CL statements for arithmetic, relational and logical expressions
  • Use the interactive source debugging facilities of STRDBG
  • Create user-defined commands with and without parameters
  • Create a Control Language program that processes a database file
  • Create and invoke a program that is activated periodically and executes asynchronously from other jobs

Course Content

The course includes the following Topics:

  • Arithmetic/boolean/string expressions.
  • Program variable definition and use.
  • Built-in functions
  • Conditional processing.
  • CALL/RETURN and parameter passing.
  • Date conversion.
  • Display and database file handling.
  • Selective command parameter prompting.
  • Data Area and Data Queue manipulation.
  • Retrieve & change job/user attributes.
  • Using system values.
  • Message handling :
  • Correcting programs with source debug.
  • Never-ending batch programs.
  • User-defined commands.
  • Compiler options.

Course Overview

CompTIA Linux+ validates the skills of IT professionals with hands-on experience configuring, monitoring, and supporting servers running the Linux operating system. The new exam has an increased focus on the following topics: security, kernel modules, storage & virtualization, device management at an enterprise level, git & automation, networking & firewalls, server side & command line, server (vs. client-based) coverage, troubleshooting and SELinux.

Course Objectives

Hardware & System Configuration
Configure kernel modules, network parameters, storage, cloud and virtualization technologies

Linux Troubleshooting & Diagnostics
Analyze system properties and processes and troubleshoot user, application and hardware issues

System Operation & Maintenance
Manage software and services, and explain server roles, job scheduling, and the use and operation of Linux devices

Automation & Scripting
Execute basic BASH scripts, version control using Git, and orchestration processes

Security
Understand best practices for permissions and authentication, firewalls, and file management.

Course Content

  • Lesson 1: Performing Basic Linux Tasks
  • Lesson 2: Managing Users and Groups
  • Lesson 3: Managing Permissions and Ownership
  • Lesson 4: Managing Storage
  • Lesson 5: Managing Files and Directories
  • Lesson 6: Managing Kernel Modules
  • Lesson 7: Managing the Linux Boot Process
  • Lesson 8: Managing System Components
  • Lesson 9: Managing Devices
  • Lesson 10: Managing Networking
  • Lesson 11: Managing Packages and Software
  • Lesson 12: Securing Linux Systems
  • Lesson 13: Working with Bash Scripts
  • Lesson 14: Automating Tasks
  • Lesson 15: Installing Linux

Course Overview

This course begins with an introduction to the z/OS environment, TSO and ISPF/PDF, batch processing, and z/OS data sets. Hands-on labs allow you to gain experience with viewing and allocating data sets, submitting a batch job, and viewing job output. After the introduction to z/OS, you will then learn, through lecture and lab exercises, how to use basic RACF command parameters and/or panels to define users and groups, protect general resources, z/OS data sets, and choose a basic set of RACF options.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • List and describe the basic features and concepts of zSeries architecture and of the z/OS operating system as they relate to security administration
  • Describe the allocation process for data sets in the z/OS environment
  • Identify the security requirements of a system
  • Use the basic facilities and features of RACF
  • Define users to RACF
  • Set up an RACF group structure
  • Use RACF to protect resources
  • Select a base set of options to tailor RACF

Course Content

  • Review of z/Architecture, and z/O
  • An introduction to TSO/E and ISPF/PDF
  • An introduction to z/OS data sets
  • Batch processing
  • Security and RACF overview
  • Administering groups and users
  • Protecting z/OS data sets
  • Introduction to general resources
  • RACF options
  • Other administrative features and facilities

Course Overview

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you make informed decisions about your customers’ architectures cloud-focused way and understand the impact of design decisions. By using the Well-Architected Framework, you will understand the risks in your architecture and ways to mitigate them. This course provides a deep dive into the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its six pillars. This course also covers the Well-Architected review process and using the AWS Well-Architected Tool to complete reviews.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Identify the AWS Well-Architected Framework features, design principles, design pillars, and common uses
  • Apply the design principles, key services, and best practices for each pillar of the Well-Architected Framework
  • Use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to conduct Well-Architected reviews

Course Content

Module 1: Well-Architected Introduction

  • Brief history of AWS Well-Architected
  • AWS Well-Architected pillars
  • Design principles
  • Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • AWS Well-Architected Tool

Module 2: Operational Excellence

  • Operational Excellence design principles
  • Case study
  • Hands-On Lab: Operational Excellence

Module 3: Reliability

  • Reliability design principles
  • Hands-On Lab: Reliability

Module 4: Security

  • Security design principles
  • Hands-On Lab: Security

Module 5: Performance Efficiency

  • Performance Efficiency design principles
  • Hands-On Lab: Performance Efficiency

Module 6: Cost Optimization

  • Cost Optimization design principles
  • Hands-On Lab: Cost Optimization

Module 7: Sustainability

  • Sustainability design principles
  • Sustainability best practices
  • Sustainability pillar resources

Module 8: Course Summary

  • Recap
  • Resources
  • Continue your learning