MAINFRAME Aula 01

Prof. Ricardo Tadeu Castelo Branco Silva

ASSUNTOS DA AULA

Z/OS
1. Mainframe 2. Batch X Online 3. Parallel Sysplex 4. LPAR 5. z/OS 6. Hardware 7. Virtual storage 8. Address spaces 9. TSO / ISPF

Mainframe facts
Who uses mainframes? Most Fortune 1000 companies use a mainframe environment 60% of all data available on the Internet is stored on mainframe computers Why mainframes?

Thousands of transactions per second

Support thousands of users and application programs Simultaneously accessing resources Terabytes of information in databases Large-bandwidth communications Consolidation of mainframes Many installations used to have several boxes A single larger machines running many LPARs is often more cost effective, as software licenses for multiple small machines can total more than those for a single large one

Typical batch use

Typical online use

IBM System z Parallel Sysplex

LPAR
LPAR: Logical Partitions are, in practice, equivalent to separate mainframes images. Each LPAR runs its own operating system. This can be any mainframe operating system.

z/OS

What is z/OS?
The most widely used mainframe operating system 64-bit operating system

Ideally suited for processing large workloads for many concurrent users Designed for:

Serving 1000s of users concurrently I/O intensive computing Processing very large workloads Running mission critical applications securely

Hardware resources managed by z/OS

Virtual storage and address space concept

Virtual storage is an illusion created through z/OS management of real storage and auxiliary storage through tables. The running portions of a program are kept in real storage; the rest is kept in auxiliary storage Range of addressable virtual storage available to a user or program or the operating system is an address space Each user or separately running program is represented by an address space (each user gets a limited amount of private storage)

z/OS address spaces z/OS and its related subsystems require address spaces of their own to provide a functioning operating system:
System address spaces are started after initialization of the master scheduler. These address spaces perform functions for all the other types of address spaces that start in z/OS. Subsystem address spaces for major system functions and middleware products such as DB2, CICS, and IMS. TSO/E address spaces are created for every user who logs on to z/OS Address spaces for every batch job that runs on z/OS.

How do we interact with z/OS?

TSO/E Allows users to logon to z/OS and use a limited set of basic commands. This is sometimes called using TSO in its native mode.
Userid

TSO/E logon screen

Enter LOGON parameters below: ===> ZPROF New Password ===> Group Ident ===> RACF LOGON parameters:

Password ===> Procedure ===> IKJACCNT Acct Nmbr ===> ACCNT# Size ===> 860000

Perform ===>

ISPF Provides a menu system for accessing many of the most commonly used z/OS functions.

Command ===> Enter an 'S' before each option desired below: -Nomail PF1/PF13 ==> Help -Nonotice -Reconnect -OIDcard PA2 ==> Reshow

PF3/PF15 ==> Logoff

PA1 ==> Attention

You may request specific help information by entering a '?' in any entry field

General structure of ISPF panels

Option 1

VIEW

Option 1

VIEW

Browsing data display

Option 2

EDIT

C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

Option 3

UTILITIES