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This course prepares you to plan, design, configure, and administer IBM MQ clusters.After a review of IBM MQ, the course explains the similarities and differences between administration of a cluster and administration of a distributed message IBM MQ environment. You learn cluster specific commands and procedures, and explore the role of a cluster in a highly available IBM MQ infrastructure. You learn how to do a detailed verification of a new cluster configuration, review and identify all resulting components, and troubleshoot problems.You also learn about cluster administration, workload balancing, security, and use of publish/subscribe clusters. You learn how to recognize when a problem is due to connection authentication, channel authentication, or object authorizations. You also learn about design options such as overlapping clusters and use of clusters with z/OS queue sharing groups. Many of the considerations in this course are based on actual engagement experiences.

This course is designed to describe the basic components that apply to all z/OS systems. It includes high level concepts that apply to the z/OS hardware platform and the z/OS software. It then provides a more detailed analysis, description and lab activities that can be applied to the system programmer role to maintain z/OS systems. Discussion activities include: The POR, IPL process, JES implementation and operating environment, VTAM environment for TSO, ISPF, SNA and TCP/IP networking, RACF, ISPF/PDF and UNIX System Services. It defines the classic approach to data management in a z/OS system. It identifies various software products and utilities used to define, maintain, and manage catalogs and data sets in the z/OS environment. It also discusses Parmlib usage and requirements for system initialization and operation that include: System symbolics, WLM, SFM, RMF and system logger. Both single system and multi-system sysplex usage is identified. z/OS install, upgrade options, maintenance using SMP/E and I/O configuration requirements using HCD is listed and described.

This course is also available as self-paced virtual (e-learning) course IBM App Connect Enterprise V11 Application Development (ZM668G). This option does not require any travel. IBM App Connect Enterprise provides connectivity and universal data transformation in heterogeneous IT environments. It enables businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing, regardless of operating system, protocol, and data format.  This course teaches you how to use IBM App Connect Enterprise to develop, deploy, and support message flow applications. These applications use various messaging topologies to transport messages between service requesters and service providers, and allow the messages to be routed, transformed, and enriched during processing.  In this course, you learn how to construct applications to transport and transform data. The course explores how to control the flow of data by using various processing nodes, and how to use databases and maps to transform and enrich data during processing. You also learn how to construct data models by using the Data Format Description Language (DFDL).

This offering provides participants with introductory to advanced knowledge of metadata modeling concepts, and how to model metadata for predictable reporting and analysis results using IBM Cognos Framework Manager. Participants will learn the full scope of the metadata modeling process, from initial project creation, to publishing of metadata to the web, enabling end users to easily author reports and analyze data.

This offering covers the fundamental concepts of installing and configuring IBM Cognos Analytics, and administering servers and content, in a distributed environment. In the course, participants will identify requirements for the installation and configuration of a distributed IBM Cognos Analytics software environment, implement security in the environment, and manage the server components. Students will also monitor and schedule tasks, create data sources, and manage and deploy content in the portal and IBM Cognos Administration.

Applying the Scrum Master Role within a SAFe Enterprise The SAFe® Scrum Master course equips attendees to coach Agile teams to deliver business value at scale. The course teaches you the tactical skills needed to be an effective Scrum Master in a SAFe organization. It also gives you the guidance and tools necessary for working in remote environments with distributed teams. If you want to become a certified scrum master with the skills to help leading companies succeed with Agile and scrum, the SAFe® Scrum Master course is for you. Learn how scrum masters empower and lead Agile teams. Understand how to facilitate Agile events like iteration planning, team sync, and iteration retrospectives. And discover how to help teams plan and complete their work using SAFe Scrum and SAFe Kanban. You’ll also learn the principles of servant leadership, so you can help develop high-performing, engaged, continuously improving teams in your own organization. Attendees learn: • How to facilitate Scrum events • How to support PI execution • How to coach teams to improve constantly • How to implement DevOps for continuous flow and delivery

This course introduces developers to IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.10.5. It teaches you how to design, develop, and integrate a business rule solution with Operational Decision Manager.The course begins with an overview of Operational Decision Manager, which is composed of two main environments: Decision Server for technical users and Decision Center for business users. The course outlines the collaboration between development and business teams during project development.Through instructor-led presentations and hands-on lab exercises, you learn about the core features of Decision Server Rules, which is the primary working environment for developers. You learn how to support your business users by setting up the rule authoring environment and object models that are required to execute rule artifacts. You also work with rule authoring so that you can support business users to set up and customize the rule authoring and validation environments. You learn how to manage ruleset deployment and execution, and work extensively with Rule Execution Server. And, you learn how Operational Decision Manager features support decision governance so that it can be implemented in your organization.

The ISTQB Foundation course covers the fundamentals of software testing, providing delegates with the necessary foundations for a career as a software testing professional.This three-day intensive tutor-led course includes exam preparation, revision and the examination on the afternoon of the third day. It is fully- accredited by UKTB on behalf of ISTQB and has been rated SFIAplus level 3 by the BCS.To qualify as an internationally-recognized Certified Foundation Level Tester and be issued with an ISTQB® Foundation Level Certificate, delegates must successfully pass the exam administered by the relevant National Board or Examination Provider.The exam will be taken on the afternoon of the last day of the course.The examination consists of a one-hour exam with 40 multiple choice questions.It will be a ‘closed book’ examination i.e. no notes or books will be allowed into the examination room.Duration of 60 minutes (or 75 minutes for candidates taking examinations that are not in their native language).The pass mark is 65% (26 out of 40).

This course provides an introduction to supervised models, unsupervised models, and association models. This is an application-oriented course and examples include predicting whether customers cancel their subscription, predicting property values, segment customers based on usage, and market basket analysis.

Design secure cloud solutions to data management with AWS Architecting. Learn how to design and build scalable solutions, as well as best practices and optimization recommendations with our AWS Architecting training courses.

Our AWS Developer training courses ensure you have the skills to succeed, both on the exam and in a professional environment. Learn how to configure SDKs and IDE toolkits and understand Deep Learning models.

Use this journey to develop your skills to build simple reports to complex reports, and learn how to create active reports which are available offline from the enterprise data source.

Use this journey to develop your skills in designing models using OLAP cubes, Dynamic Cubes, or relational data sources, and continue your development to design Scorecards.

Mainframe Application Developers create and support computer code used in the organization’s mainframe systems to perform business functions. This includes assisting with the design, coding, and testing of computer programs, analyzing and resolving programming issues, and supporting the business to ensure application programs work as required. Mainframe Application Developers are found in a variety of industries including but not limited to Health Care, Insurance, Retail, Transportation, etc.

System/Computer Operators oversee the systems ensuring all computers are running correctly. This role monitors and controls system console messages, processes and resolves job processing problems performs system backups, maintains peripheral devices, and performs disaster recovery procedures. This role commonly functions within a Data Center.

Systems Programmers program computer system software, including, but not limited to installing and maintaining the system software, managing the installation, performing overall maintenance, tuning, and resolving problems regarding the operating system. The systems programmer provides software and software platforms and administers IBM Mainframes.

ITIL® 4 Foundation introduces the management of modern IT-enabled services, to provide an understanding of the common language and key concepts, and to show how organizations and work can improve with the ITIL® 4 guidance.

Get an introduction to the key principles of service strategy, and learn about the service strategy processes. Discover the importance of governance and related frameworks, and examine implementation considerations and approaches, including organizational design, the role of technology, and service automation.

With LearnQuest's Core Java Curriculum, you'll build your core java skills including Micro Services, REST, and database access. Then you can choose the Spring Framework and/or Web Development Learning Journeys to continue building your skills.