On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• understand and use the terminology associated with UNIX
• describe basic UNIX concepts
• issue UNIX shell commands
• identify and utilise key shell commands such as 'find', 'grep', etc.
• explain the changes that have been made to the MVS platform in order to support applications created for a UNIX environment
• identify the facilities and functions provided within USS
• utilise ISHELL.

• Introduction to UNIX & Open Systems
  • Where did UNIX come from?
  • Modern UNIX history
  • The UNIX 'culture'
  • Commercial UNIX systems
  • What is 'Open Systems'?
  • Some 'official' definitions
  • Open platforms
  • Portable Operating System Interface - POSIX
  • The POSIX standards
  • Open Group branding
  • What is DCE?
• UNIX System Overview
  • UNIX internals overview
  • The Kernel
  • System calls
  • Processes and programs
  • The shell
  • Tools
  • UNIX shells
  • The UNIX file system
  • The system files - /etc, /dev, /bin and others
  • UNIX security basics
  • UNIX User ids (uids)
  • User attributes
  • Access control in UNIX
  • File access control attributes
  • Meaning of permissions
  • Changing user and file attributes
  • Changing user information
  • Changing file information
  • File permission and user mask
  • Additional permission bits
  • User account information
  • User-determined information
  • The root username - the superuser
• The Kernel & the Shell
  • The Kernel
  • The Shell
  • Main shell functions
  • Basic command syntax
  • Input and Output redirection
  • Examples of redirecting Input and Output
  • Piping input between commands
  • Environment variables
  • Special shell variables
  • Shell variables
  • Local and environment variables
  • Special keyboard operations
  • Online help
  • UNIX multitasking
  • Placing a command in background
  • Monitoring background commands;
  • Controlling background commands
  • Moving processes between foreground and background
  • File wild card searches
  • Shell programming
  • Shell programming commands and features
  • Passing arguments to shell programs
  • Shells and shell commands
  • Overview of commands
  • Command history
• The UNIX File System Concept
  • UNIX file types
  • Directory structure
  • Paths and file names
  • zFS and HFS
  • Recommended file structure
  • Lengths of path and file names
  • Specifying UNIX files in z/OS
  • Creating, listing and viewing files
  • Positioning current work directory
  • Path and file name lengths
  • Working with directories
  • File system protection
  • Assigning file attributes
  • Permission attributes (r, w, x)
  • Assigning permission attributes to a file
  • Setting file permissions - chmod
  • File attributes
  • Default file permissions - umask
  • Links - file name 'alias'
  • Hard links
  • Hard links and i-node numbers
  • Hard link - listing
  • Symbolic links
  • Additional list options
  • Listing files - pattern matching
  • Locating files - find
  • The find command
  • Additional search qualifiers
  • Copying files - cp
  • Moving and removing files
  • Controlling Input and Output
  • Passing files between programs - pipes
  • Regular expressions
  • Searching for strings in files - grep
  • grep - a science in its own right
  • grep and regular expressions
  • Sorting text files - sort
  • Formatting files with pr
  • Printing to hardcopy - lp
  • Example of files and directories
• Interactive USS
  • Invoking USS
  • Running USS interactively
  • Login to USS
  • TSO terminal support - Pseudo TTY
  • TSO or asynchronous, OCS or direct?
  • 1003.1 Compliant communication functions
  • The shell
  • The OMVS command
  • Default PF keys in OMVS
  • OMVS subcommands
  • Shell commands
  • TSO/E commands and ISPF panels
  • ISPF panel for file management - ISHELL
  • Directory list
  • File - drop down menu
  • The ISPF edit panel
  • Directory - drop down menu
  • OEDIT and OBROWSE

Live instructor-led training, with plenty of opportunities for hands-on exercises and discussion.

Delivered as a live, interactive online training.

A basic understanding of the z/OS environment.

All IT technicians working in a z/OS technical environment that will be encompassing the use of USS.