|   Streaming iSeries Operations
This course also available online.
Author: Manta TechnologiesAvailability: Ships within 72 hours.
SKU: 3039 | |
Course Description:
More and more AS/400 and iSeries shops are moving towards "lights out" operation, in which the system runs without a full-time operator in attendance. Other shops still have full-time operators, but are reducing the hours during which the computer room is staffed. To automate operations-related tasks, you can turn to several program products available from major software vendors.
Alternatively, you can begin a move towards automated operations using the free tools that are described in this course. All of these tools are built into OS/400. Because they are poorly documented and not well advertised, however, you may not know they exist.
For most OS/400 installations, the first step in automating operations is to submit batch production jobs for execution on a predetermined schedule. The course begins by showing you how to accomplish this using the job scheduler that comes with OS/400.
Once a shop's batch jobs are being submitted automatically, the next step towards automated operations is preprogramming responses to system messages. In the second session of this course, you will see how to reduce operator interactions by using the system reply list to have the system reply automatically to specified messages.
Next, you will see how to modify the system startup program. This program is executed automatically at the end of the IPL process. By modifying it, you can automatically enter commands to start jobs, servers, or subsystems and perform other tasks without operator intervention. As you will see, a common reason to modify the startup program is to start TCP/IP automatically after each IPL.
The remainder of the course covers ways to modify the commands provided with OS/400. First you will see how to change the default value of a command parameter. Then you will see how to create simplified versions of OS/400 commands.
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After completing this course, you should be able to:
• Submit a job to run at a predetermined time
• Have a job executed automatically based on a predefined schedule
• Create the system message queue
• Have the system respond automatically to a specified inquiry message
• Modify the system startup program
• Copy an OS/400 command
• Change the default value for an OS/400 command parameter
• Create a CL program to reapply changes you have made to OS/400 commands
• Create simple commands that invoke one or more OS/400 commands
Audience: This course is intended for anyone responsible for managing the system activity of an OS/400 system. System administrators, system programmers, and system operators would be personnel operating in this job capacity.
Prerequisites: This course assumes that you have a basic knowledge of OS/400 facilities. You can satisfy this prerequisite by successfully completing the courses in the Using an iSeries System series. The course also assumes you have a detailed knowledge of OS/400 work management. You can satisfy this prerequisite by successfully courses of this series:
· Work Management Concepts
· Working with System Values
· Managing Subsystems
· Subsystem Workflow and Job Control
· Introduction to CL Programming
· Variables and Built-In Functions
· Controlling Command and Program Flow
Course Outline:
Scheduling Jobs
Automatic Message Response
Modifying the Startup Program
Changing Command Defaults
Creating Commands
Course Details: | Length: | 2 hours | | Materials: | A Student Reference Guide is available for this series. | | Publisher: | Manta |
Streaming iSeries Operations
This course also available online.
Author: Manta TechnologiesAvailability: Ships within 72 hours.
SKU: 3039 | |
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