OS/390 Concepts and Facilities - A Practitioner Series Course Offering Copyright © 2000 Mentor Services Corp - 200 White Plains Road - Tarrytown - NY 10591.

Introduction: The OS/390 operating system is IBM's flagship offering for its mainframe processors. This course uses the OS/390 system to introduce the student to operating system principles. It covers, at the conceptual level, all the essential parts of the OS/390 system and discusses their interrelationships. It describes the myriad of services available to programs in the OS/390 environment. It also describes, in detail, the flow of work through the system. Audience: All programmers, operations staff, programming and operations managers who are new to the OS/390 operating system. Prerequisites: The student must have a working knowledge of data processing and programming fundamentals. Objectives:  On completion of this course, the student should be able to: identify the different components of OS/390 and describe their functions describe the flow of a job through the OS/390 system describe the structure of an address space identify the functions for communicating between two or more address spaces describe how OS/390 exploits large real and expanded storage Duration: This course is 5 days long.