Digital Badge Program z-Systems

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for Advanced Assembler Language Coding Workshop. The badge earner has demonstrated the ability to identify data management considerations and access methods and define and execute user macros.

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Attendance and successful completion of ES35G Advanced Assembler Language Coding Workshop instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding advanced operator actions to implement new policies, coupling facilities, structures and sysplex related operational enhancements. This includes diagnosing problems and recovery techniques in these areas. These include: identifying HMC problems and recovery, including IPL problems during system and sysplex activation; recovery with and without SFM policies; couple data set failures; and CF and CF structure failures.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Advanced Parallel Sysplex Operations and Recovery Workshop - Code: ES90G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the performance management and monitoring components of the Parallel Sysplex, USS, and WLM environment using extensive Resource Management Facility (RMF) reports and console displays to understand what is happening in the system.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Advanced z/OS Performance: WLM, Sysplex, UNIX Services, z Systems - Code: ES85G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the evolution of the current z/OS security architecture. Topics cover various technologies that are involved in z/OS Cryptographic Services, z/OS Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), as well as z/OS Integrated Security Services.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Advanced z/OS Security: Crypto, Network, RACF, and Your Enterprise - Code: ES66G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for Assembler Language Coding Workshop. The learner understands how to code and debug assembler language programs and identify both program interruption and standards for assembler programs.

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Attendance and successful completion of ES34G Assembler Language Coding Workshop instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to establish a practical performance management program for a z/OS system. This includes how to work with the Workload Manager (WLM) in goal mode; concepts of WLM and performance management in the z/OS system using the WLM; how to analyze Resource Monitoring Facility (RMF) reports and implement service definitions using the WLM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) application.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Basic z/OS Tuning Using the Workload Manager - Code: ES54G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding using the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server. Topics covered include hands-on exercises to 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.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Effective RACF Administration - Code: BE87G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding implementing advanced facilities available in RACF. Topics cover: features and benefits of the various advanced functions in RACF; deciding what features to implement in your installation; identifying migration considerations associated with these functions; tasks that must be performed to implement the advanced security features; implementation plan development; and implementing the advanced security functions.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Exploiting the Advanced Features of RACF - Code: ES88G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding an introduction into the IBM Z environment. This includes the IBM mainframe servers, operating systems and software products. Through lecture and hands-on labs, the earner has gained the basic skill set to jump start productivity on the mainframe environment. They have learned skills which can be applied across multiple mainframe job roles.

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Attendance and successful completion of ES10G Fundamental System Skills in z/OS instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for z/OS Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) and to plan and initiate dynamic reconfiguration of a zSeries hardware environment. This includes using the HCD dialogs of z/OS to create an Input/Output (I/O) configuration, how to dynamically alter the I/O configuration, creating an I/O Configuration Dataset (IOCDS), and defining various reports that HCD can build.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Hardware Configuration and Definition (HCD) for zOS - Code: ES96G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the DS8000 storage subsystem and its hardware components and logical structure. This includes: configuring the DS8000 storage subsystem using a DS8000 Storage Manager GUI; reviewing the DS CLI interface for scripting configuration functions; performing dynamic data relocation using Easy Tier function; and understanding the DS8900F product.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM DS8000 Implementation Workshop for z Systems - Code: SSF1G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for the HMC on an IBM Z server. The badge earner has demonstrated the ability to use and management on an HMC.

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Attendance and successful completion of ES24G IBM System z Hardware Management Console (HMC) Operations instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for IBM Z System Automation 4.3 Architecture and is able to: describe the IBM Z System Automation 4.3 capabilities, and policy-based and goal driven automation; explain key automation concepts and policy for applications; explain operator interfaces, explain the request process, inhibitors, and orders; describe resource relationships, groups, threshold processing, message automation, end-to-end automation, Processor Operations options.

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Attendance and successful completion of SM919G IBM Z System Automation 4.3 Architecture instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for IBM Z System Automation 4.3 Operations and is able to: describe the IBM Z System Automation 4.3 Operations to perform start and stop automated resources; monitor and control automated resources; and IPL and shut down z/OS systems and an SAplex.

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Attendance and successful completion of SM929G IBM Z System Automation 4.3 Operations instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the new features and enhanced functions provided in z/OS Version 2 Release 4. Topics include enhancements to the base control program, sysplex features, UNIX System Services, the data storage subsystem, Communications Server, and security components, such as RACF. In addition, the course covers the installation and migration issues relating to installation of z/OS V2.4.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM z/OS 2.4 Update - Code: ESC9G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding an introduction into the IBM Z environment. This includes the IBM mainframe servers, operating systems and software products. Through lecture and hands-on labs, the earner has gained the basic skill set to jump start productivity on the mainframe environment. They have learned skills which can be applied across multiple mainframe job roles.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM z/OS Bootcamp - Code: ESZ0G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how IBM® z/OS® Container Extensions (IBM zCX) make it possible to run Linux on IBM Z® applications that are packaged as Docker container images on z/OS. Topics include how application developers can develop and data centers can operate popular open source packages, Linux applications, IBM software, and third-party software together with z/OS applications and data.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM z/OS Container Extensions zCX - Code: ESX0G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to implement security for your CICS systems using RACF as the external security manager. Topics cover: implementation tasks for a single-region CICS system as well as MRO or ISC-connected multregion CICS systems; CICS & RACF definitions to establish effective security controls for CICS; & a wide variety of mechanisms to initiate transactions within CICS & techniques to impose security controls on each mechanisms.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Implementing RACF Security for CICS/ESA and CICS/TS - Code: ES84G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how open standards are implemented in a z/OS system by z/OS UNIX. It includes an introduction to UNIX System Services and the role of z/OS as a server in the open systems environment. Topics also cover an overview of z/OS UNIX System Services (usually abbreviated to z/OS UNIX) as seen by the user.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Introducing z/OS UNIX System Services - Code: OP05G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the steps to implement a basic and full Parallel Sysplex. This includes implementing a basic sysplex, a multisystem base sysplex, the connectivity for a Parallel Sysplex, the features and functions of a Parallel Sysplex, and the coupling facility key exploiters. The earner also understands the different recovery scenarios.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Parallel Sysplex Implementation Workshop - Code: ES42G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to install and maintain optional features in the z/OS operating environment. This includes: defining the SMP/E database and invoking SMP/E to add, modify, or replace system elements; SMP/E tasks involved in installing a z/OS product; interpreting results of SMP/E processing; modification control statements, the consolidated software inventory, zone structure, and error analysis; and more.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: SMP/E for z/OS Workshop - Code: ES26G

This badge holder has demonstrated experience with the System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) commands that are used for system operations. The System Automation for z/OS automation manager and automation agent that the badge earner uses, run in a z/OS environment.

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During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with: Starting & stopping automated resources, monitoring & controlling automated resources, PL & shutting down systems & an SAplex.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the new features and enhanced functions provided in z/OS Version 2 Release 3. Topics include: software updates and enhancements for z/OS V2R3 based on closely associated z/OS components; enhancements to the base control program; sysplex features; UNIX System Services; data storage subsystem; Communications Server; security components, such as RACF; and installation and migration issues.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS 2.3 Update - Code: ESC8G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the base elements, optional features, and servers that are provided in z/OS. Topics include: system service facilities that are provided by the z/OS Base Control Program (BCP); functions of major software base elements in the management of jobs, tasks, storage, data and problems; server services which execute in the z/OS environments, such as the Communications Server and the Security Server; and Installation options.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS Facilities - Code: ES15G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to use z/OS job control language (JCL) and selected z/OS utility programs in an online batch environment. Topics also included both Storage Management Subsystem (SMS) and non-SMS JCL.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS JCL and Utilities - Code: ES07G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for the z/OS REXX Workshop with hands-on training. This course is designed to teach you the basic skills required to write programs using the REXX language in z/OS. The course covers the TSO extensions to REXX and interaction with other environments such as the MVS console, running REXX in batch jobs, and compiling REXX.

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Attendance and successful completion of ES52G z/OS REXX Programming Workshop instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to implement and customize RACF on z/OS. Topics cover: creating and maintaining the RACF databases; functions a resource manager can use to work with RACF; RACF profiles and administration; RACF customization such as the class descriptor table and started procedure table; performance and tuning of RACF; program control and the interaction between storage management components and RACF; and multilevel security.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS Security Server RACF, Implementing and Customization - Code: SZ81G.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding an overview of the z Operating System (OS). Topics cover: System z partitioning capabilities; Processor Resource/Systems Manager (PR/SM); z/OS; Job Entry Subsystem 2 (JES2); Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3); Time Sharing Option (TSO); TSO Extended (TSO/E); System Display and Search Facility (SDSF); z/OS Communications Server; & System z channel subsystem usage for various channels, such as ESCON, FICON & OSA; plus more.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS System Operators - Code: ES27G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the basic components that apply to all z/OS systems, including high-level concepts that apply to the z/OS hardware platform and the z/OS software. Topics cover an overall understanding of the z/OS platform, z/OS components, data management, and installation and maintenance activities used in z/OS systems.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS System Programmer Fundamentals - Code: ES40G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to install and customize z/OS UNIX (full name z/OS UNIX System Services), and to manage and monitor the z/OS UNIX environment.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/OS UNIX System Services Implementation - Code: OP25G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the tasks required to support a z/VM operating system. Topics cover: an overview of the processes required to install z/VM; the required tailoring steps to support guest operating system virtual machines and CMS users; steps for adding guest systems and other virtual machines to the z/VM system; how to apply service to the z/VM system; and how to define a minimal TCP/IP configuration.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/VM and Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Bootcamp - ZL00G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding tasks to support a z/VM operating system. This includes processes required to install z/VM, & the required tailoring steps to support guest operating system virtual machines & CMS users; steps for adding guest systems & virtual m/c's to the z/VM system; applying service to the z/VM system; defining a minimal TCP/IP configuration; implementation of SUSE, RedHat, & Ubuntu distributions of Linux on IBM Z and on LinuxONE.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: z/VM and Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Bootcamp - Code: ZL00G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding today’s complex system mainframe environment on the IBM Z Systems. The individual has a gained an overall understanding about the history of the mainframe, different types and components, basic tasks, and how the hardware and operating systems interact.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Z: Technical Overview of HW and SW Mainframe Evolution - Code: ES89G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to define an automation policy for IBM System Automation for z/OS® (SA z/OS). Through hands-on labs, the earner has learned how to create policy definitions for systems, applications, application groups, and monitor resources. Other skills covered include defining an automation policy for several environments: single system and multiple system within a basic sysplex.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM System Automation for z/OS 4.1 Implementation and Administration - Code: SM937G