GASI EDUCATION CENTER

SYLLABUS

“IBM eServer iSeries (AS / 400) SYSTEM OPERATION “

Course Code : GSOP1

♦      COURSE OBJECTIVE

This course is designed to provide comprehensive practical training in System Operations, utilizing Control Language commands and menus. In addition to job skills, this course will provide a basic understanding of the AS / 400 that will advance   the student’s learning curve in other areas.

♦      COURSE PREREQUISITES

Students taking this course should have completed the following GASI AS / 400 courses or have equivalent :

AS / 400 Workstation Operations

 

♦       COURSE PROGRAM CONTENTS

⇒    AS / 400 Concepts

• Single – Level Storage
• Object – Oriented Architecture

⇒    Libraries and Objects

• Working with Libraries
• Displaying a Library
• Copying a Library
• Creating, Deleting and Clearing a Library
• Explicitly Describing Objects
• Objects Naming Rules
• Working with Objects
• Renaming an Objects
• Moving an Objects
• Creating a Duplicate Object

⇒    Command Prompting

• Command Parameters
• Positional and Keyword Notation
• Listing Permissible Values

⇒    AS / 400 Menus

• Using Menu Search Paths p Support
• Help Support
• Moving to a Specific Menu  (GO)
• Task and Command Grouping Menus

⇒    System Start – Up and Shut Down

• Initial Program Load  (IPL)
• Attended vs Unattended IPLs
• Setting Automatic IPLs
• Powering Down the System
• Forcing Power Down

⇒    Library Lists

• System Library Lists
• Product Library Lists
• Current Library
• User Library List
• Changing and Editing a Library List

⇒    Save / Restore and Media Handling

• Tape and Diskette Considerations
• Initializing Tape and Diskette
• Save / Restore Commands
• Save File

⇒    Work  Management

• Subsystems
• Interactive and Batch Jobs
• Job Attributes
• Job Queues and Job Descriptions
• Working with Jobs

⇒    Working with Printer Output

• Spooled Files and Output Queues
• Starting and Stopping Printers
• Working with Spooled Files

⇒    Sending and Receiving Messages

• Messages and Messages Queues
• Sending a Messages
• Displaying a Messages
• Error Messages

⇒    Local Device Configuration

• Configuration Objects
• Using Auto – Configuration
• Manually Configuring Devices
• Monitoring and Varying Devices

⇒     System Value

• Displaying a System Value
• Changing a System Values

⇒    Operational Assistant

♦      COURSE METHODS

This training program is designed to provide participants with an interactive learning experience. As the word implies, this course does more than just provide a lecture. Instead, participants will actively involved  in the operation of the AS / 400. In addition, participants will be called on to test participants knowledge by answering some short quizzes. Participants  will also perform some Hands On exercises.

♦      COURSE DURATION

3 Days