IBM z/OS Essentials (Technical)

This course provides an overview of IBM mainframes. It provides foundational knowledge on mainframe ecosystems, application components, architecture, data formats, file systems, and external system integrations.

This course is intended for the following learners:

• AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions architects who aim to get foundational knowledge or a refresher about IBM mainframe ecosystems and components.
• AWS employees who get to know customer environments, mainframe migration expectations, and modernization drivers.

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Fundamental-level understanding of the AWS Cloud

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

• Earn customers’ trust by speaking mainframe terminology.
• Use mainframe concepts to be able to ask customers qualifying business and technical questions.
• Connect customers’ mainframe environment needs to mainframe components.
• Use mainframe concepts to be able to ask deep-dive questions.
• Map customer mainframe workloads to solution architectures upon knowledge of overall mainframe architecture design.
• Integrate applications and data on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with customers’ mainframe applications by knowing what the common integration solutions are.