IBM zSystems and LinuxONE Technical Education

IBM Training

• Information on IBM Training courses for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE may be found at IBM zSystems mainframe training.

IBM Webcasts

• z/VM, Linux on IBM Z, and z/VSE Live Virtual Classes

IBM Redbooks videos for z/OS
There are currently 27 short videos providing z/OS introductory education available

Non-IBM zSystems Training
This is a non-exhaustive list of other training available.

• SHARE offers a wide range of IBM zSystems and related education. The next short event is in Atlanta, GA March 5-8, 2023 and the next full event is in New Orleans, LA August 13-18, 2023.
• The VM Workshop held each year in June provides a low-cost set of technical sessions on z/VM, Linux on zSystems, and z/VSE. The next workshop will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from June 22-24, 2023.
• Peter Enrico and Enterprise Performance Strategies offers z/OS Performance Seminars.
• Barton Robinson and Velocity Software offers z/VM Performance Seminars.
• ProTech Training offers a wide range of IBM Z classroom courses.
• Interskill offers a wide range of IBM Z e-learning courses.
  • Mainframe Learning Plans
• The Institute for Data Center Professionals at Marist College offers z/OS and related e-learning certificate courses.
• MVS Training provides custom z/OS training and the MVS Mainframe Book Series to help IT professionals perform their job better.

Internet Discussion Lists
There are several internet discussion lists related to z Systems. You can find links to these at http://www.vm.ibm.com/techinfo/listserv.html. The primary discussion lists are:

• IBM-MAIN for z/OS and related topics.
• IBMVM for z/VM and related related topics.
• LINUX-390 for Linux on Z and related topics.
• VSE-L for z/VSE and related topics.

Information Centers and the Education Assistant

• The z/OS basic skills information center provides several courses, some of which are interactive web-based.
• The z/VM Docs provides a portal to resources for z/VM.
• The IBM Docs and provides material on several Software Group products and on z/OS.

Introduction to the New Mainframe Redbooks

• Large-Scale Commercial Computing (2 Jan 2007)
• z/OS Basics (4 Jan 2012)
• Networking (6 Nov 2006)
• z/VM Basics (10 Jan 2008)
• z/VSE Basics (2 Mar 2016)

ABCs of z/OS System Programming
A more detailed level of training is available in the "ABCs of z/OS System Programming" series:

• Volume 1: Introduction to z/OS and storage concepts, TSO/E, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, and z/OS delivery and installation (22 January 2018)
• Volume 2: z/OS implementation and daily maintenance, defining subsystems, JES2 and JES3, LPA, LNKLST, authorized libraries, SMP/E, Language Environment (7 April 2018)
• Volume 3: Introduction to DFSMS, data set basics, storage management hardware and software, VSAM, System-Managed Storage, catalogs, and DFSMStvs (19 January 2018)
• Volume 4: Communication Server, TCP/IP, and VTAM (10 Feburary 2011)
• Volume 5: Base and Parallel Sysplex, System Logger, Resource Recovery Services (RRS), global resource serialization (GRS), z/OS system operations, automatic restart management (ARM), Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) (12 May 2011)
• Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF, Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990 integrated cryptography, zSeries firewall technologies, LDAP, and Enterprise identity mapping (EIM) (12 August 2014)
• Volume 7: Printing in a z/OS environment, Infoprint Server and Infoprint Central (16 October 2008)
• Volume 8: An introduction to z/OS problem diagnosis (26 July 2012)
• Volume 9: z/OS UNIX System Services (12 May 2011)
• Volume 10: Introduction to IBM z/Architecture®, the IBM Z platform and IBM Z connectivity, LPAR concepts, HCD, and the DS Storage Solution (4 May 2018)
• Volume 11: Capacity planning, performance management, RMF, and SMF (7 December 2010)
• Volume 12: WLM (29 January 2010)
• Volume 13: JES3, JES3 SDSF (7 February 2012)

z/OS
z/OS V2R2

• JES2, JES3, and SDSF (15 December 2015) 
• Security (17 December 2015)  
• Storage Management and Utilities (17 December 2015)  
• Availability Management (17 December 2015)  
• Performance (17 December 2015)  
• Operations (17 December 2015)  
• Sysplex (16 December 2015)  
• Unix Systems Services (16 December 2015)  
• User Interfaces (17 December 2015) 

z/OS Communications Server
z/OS V2 Communications Server TCP/IP series:

• TCP/IP Implementation Volume 1: Base Functions,Connectivity, and Routing z/OS V2R2 (30 November 2016)
• TCP/IP Implementation Volume 2: Standard Applications z/OS V2R2 (21 September 2016)
• TCP/IP Implementation Volume 3: High Availability, Scalability, and Performance z/OS V2R2 (7 April 2017)
• TCP/IP Implementation Volume 4: Security and Policy-Based Networking z/OS V2R2 (21 March 2017)

Reduce Risk and Improve Security on IBM Mainframes

• Volume 1 Architecture and Platform Security (1 December 2015)
• Volume 2 Mainframe Communication and Networking Security (25 September 2015)
• Volume 3 Mainframe Subsystem and Application Security (2 November 2015)