The course will concentrate on the operational recovery aspects of the Parallel Sysplex environment. The student will learn about basic problem diagnosis, the commands necessary to display and monitor parallel sysplex status, and the means necessary to recovery from failure scenarios.

Mainframe Training Audience

Course is designed for Systems Programmers and Computer Operators that must plan for and manage Parallel Sysplex recovery scenarios. This course will include recovery procedures for subsystems, as well as basic diagnostic procedures.

Mainframe Training Prerequisites

The student should have completed Parallel Sysplex Overview & Operations or have equivalent knowledge.

Mainframe Training Course duration

5 days

Mainframe Training Course outline

Introduction to parallel sysplex problem management
	Key parallel sysplex components         Basic problem diagnosis and component analysis         Documentation sources
Introduction to diagnostics and problem analysis
	Data gathering         System commands to gather status information         Problem types
Failure scenarios and recovery options
	Hardware problems:                 Hardware Management Console (HMC) problems                 Console failures                 Coupling facility failures         Software problems:                 Failure of couple data sets         Configuration problems:                 Dynamically migrating resource sharing components (ie: GRS, JES2)                 Policy changes and pending conditions                 Sysplex-wide activation for dynamically added new CF         Startup/Shutdown problems:                 Recovery from IPL problems during system activation
Sysplex recovery options
	Sysplex Failure Manager (SFM) policies                 Establishing SFM policies for different recovery scenarios                 Differences in recovery with and without SFM policies                 Identify problems during structure rebuild and possible corrective actions