Mainframe system administration

• z OS Overview
• TSO / ISPF,JCL,VSAM
• INITIALIZATION & IPL PROCEDURE
• JES Administration
• Catalog
• Storage Management
• SMF,TCP/IP,VTAM
• RACF Administration
• SMP/E Introduction
• DB2 Administration
• CICS Administration

Mainframe application program

• An Introduction to the z/OS and OS/390 Environment
• ISPF
• JCL – Job Control Language
• VSAM Fundamentals
• MVS Administration
• Operating System Customization and Initialization Concepts
• SYSTEM DATA SETS
• JES Administration
• Catalogs
• Storage Management
• SMF
• RACF Administration
• SMP/E Introduction

DB2 / UDB administration

• Understanding RDBMS
• Overview of DB2 universal Database
• Getting started with Db2 UDB GUI
• Create Databases and Data Placement
• Create Objects
• Utilities
• Monitoring and problem determination
• Concurrency
• Application alternatives
• Application Performance
• Security

CICS administration

• CICS Overview Introduction to CICS
• CICS Initialization & Shutdown
• Types of Resources Definition
• Terminal definition
• Security in CICS
• Backup / Recovery & Journals – CICS Log
• Termination of CICS/Restart consideration
• Recoverable resources
• Performance Tuning

Citrix and Windows administration

• Installing Citrix XenApp
• Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp Clients
• Publishing Resources
• Configuring Policies in Citrix XenApp
• Configuring Sessions in Citrix XenApp
• Configuring Citrix XenApp
• Configuring Load Management
• Deploying Applications with XenApp
• Configuring Printing
• Enabling Web Access to Published Resources
• Streaming Applications
• Securing Access to Published Resources
• Citrix XenApp Updates
• WINDOWS ADMIN
• Introduction to Active Directory Infrastructure
• Implementing an Active Directory Forest and Domain Structure
• Implementing an Organizational Unit Structure
• Implementing User, Group, and Computer Accounts
• Implementing Group Policy
• Deploying and Managing Software by Using Group Policy
• Implementing Sites to Manage Active Directory Replication
• Implementing the Placement of Domain Controllers
• Managing Operations Masters
• Maintaining Active Directory Availability

AS400

• iSeries overview and basic concepts
• Work Management
• Software Installation and Maintenance
• Problem Management
• Manage Backup and Recovery
• Security Concepts & planning
• Manage and Secure Network Connectivity
• Database Fundamentals
• iSeries Access
• BRMS (Backup Recovery & Media Services)
• Logical Partitioning on iSeries
• Performance monitoring
• MAINFRAME ADMINSITRATION
• DB2 Administration

AS400 application program

• AS/400 introduction
• Control Language Overview
• COBOL 400
• DB2 400
• RPG400

REXX, CLIST, ASSEMBLER programming

• Introduction to REXX keywords- SAY, DO, IF and EXIT
• Conditional Instructions
• Looping
• Built-in Functions & TSO/E External Functions
• Tracing & Debugging
• Stack and I/O Processing
• Creating a CLIST
• Executing a CLIST
• Using TSO Commands in CLISTs
• Programmable CLISTs
• Submitting Background Jobs from CLISTs
• PROC Statements
• Debugging Techniques
• CLIST Programming
• File I/O Processing
• Trapping Output
• Monitoring Datasets
• Multi-Module (Nested) CLIST Programs
• Compile, Link and Go CLISTs
• Advanced Topics

AIX / UNIX Administration

• Introduction to AIX
• System
• Files and Directories
• File Permissions
• The vi Editor
• Shell Basics
• Shell Variables
• Processes
• Customising the User Environment
• AIX Utilities
• Software Installation and Maintenance

TIVOLI administration

• Main features TIVOLI
• Understanding TIVOLI monitoring
• Resources models
• Cycles
• Threshold
• Parameters
• Indications
• Occurrence and holes
• Events
• Clearing events
• Monitoring of event and indications
• Supported platforms
• Hardware requirements
• Products within the tivoli monitoring family
• Installing and upgrading the product
• Web health console
• Understanding the resource health
• Installing the web health console
• Connecting the web health console
• Request manager processor
• System requirements
• Enabling the web health console to use your resource models
• Logging on to the web health console
• Setting your preferences
• Managing end point lists & preferences
• Common web health console features
• Using and working with endpoints
• Using the resource model view
• Heart beat function & flows
• Installing and configuring heart beat
• Controlling the heart beat
• End point registration
• Heartbeat monitoring
• Viewing the end point cache
• Installing the workbench
• Creating resource models
• Elements in resource models
• Building the package
• Registering a resource model in to ITM