z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) Implementation and Use

Course details

This course is designed to provide you with the skills required to install and customize z/OSMF (Management Facility), and use the functions and features provided by z/OSMF. IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a new product for z/OS that will simplify, optimize and modernize the z/OS system programmer experience. z/OSMF delivers solutions in a task-oriented, web-browser-based user interface with integrated user assistance. In this course, we will introduce z/OS Management Facility and its architecture, describe the components that are necessary to run z/OSMF on z/OS. In this course, you will also learn the installation and customization of z/OS Management Facility, and will customize several system components to exploit the following z/OSMF functions: Deployment Manager Capacity Provisioning Classic (ISPF) Interface Incident Log Configuration Assistant for the z/OS Communications Server Workload Management System Status, Resource Monitoring

Objectives:

• Describe the purpose and benefit of z/OS Management Facility
• Describe the functions provided z/OS Management Facility
• Describe the technical overview of z/OSMF features and architecture
• Describe the z/OSMF client and server operating environment
• Describe the systems management tasks and updates with every release
• Indicate list of publications and references
• Describe ordering and installing the z/OSMF software (code)
• Via ServerPac or SMP/Evb
• Perform installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server OEM Edition
• Configure WebSphere Application Server OEM Edition
• Configure z/OS prerequisites for plug-ins
• Configure z/OSMF
• Explain any migration issues or concerns
• Describe the details of each function, updated for each release of z/OSMF
• Understand the detailed examples of how to use the z/OSMF features
• Describe the z/OSMF tasks (and release of z/OS and z/OSMF that was introduced)
• Manage the z/OSMF administration:
• Adding users, defining roles, new SAF-based authorization
• Customize Welcome screen, add links