About this Course

This course is designed to provide the skills for basic implementation and customization of TCP/IP on z/OS.

Audience Profile

This intermediate course is for the Information Systems communications professional who is planning to install TCP/IP for z/OS and for TCP/IP users who are interested in installing and customizing IBM's TCP/IP product in interoperability environments and main applications.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe IBM's z/OS TCP/IP product offering
• Describe the installation requirements and system customization for the z/OS TCP/IP implementation
• Define network interface attachments that produce connectivity for z/OS TCP/IP communications
• Construct TCP/IP configuration statements for z/OS to allow operation and connectivity to an existing TCP/IP network
• Configure TCP/IP for z/OS for basic communications functions
• Construct TCP/IP configuration statements for z/OS for selected TCP/IP application protocols services

Prerequisites

You should understand:

• basic concepts and architecture of TCP/IP and the TCP/IP protocols.

You should be familiar with:

• z/OS systems and networking operations, and be familiar with z/OS UNIX Services configuration and usage.

You should also have a basic knowledge of data communications.

Course Outline

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 - TCP/IP for z/OS introduction
• Unit 2 - z/OS system prerequisites for TCP/IP
• Unit 3 - Basic customization

Day 2

• Unit 4 - Network interfaces
• Unit 5 - Name services

Day 3

• Unit 6 - OMPRoute
• Unit 7 - Telnet

Day 4

• Unit 8 - Enterprise Extender
• Unit 9 - SyslogD
• Unit 10 - FTP

Day 5

• Unit 11 - SMTP