Hello IBM-MAINers, If you are looking to learn about all the new functions in z/OS V1R13, it's just gotten much easier! We are doing something slightly different for z/OS R13 in the IBM Education Assistant. In the past, we've only had a limited number of presentations available in IBM Education Assistant. What we had was good, however it certainly didn't offer a comprehensive view of what the release contained. Many of the important functions for previous releases were not covered on IBM Education Assistant.
Now for z/OS V1R13, we've moved into a different direction. We've included detailed technical presentations prepared by the component experts themselves, on IBM Education Assistant. If you are looking for practically all the technical details you can get about a certain function (or even just wanting to know what all the functions are), check out what we've got now. We have 108 z/OS V1R13 presentations now available! A couple of hints when using IBM Education Assistant: 1) There is an "Overview" session that is succinct (30 minutes) and can point you specifically to other education modules that you may want to investigate. This is a great starting place if you want to see a very short description of what the other modules are in IBM Education Assistant. There is voiceover for this Overview presentation. 2) The individual technical presentations are sorted by theme: Availability, Simplification, Hardware Support, Economics and Platform Efficiency, Workload Enablement, Installation, and Security. You should use the "Overview" session to see what the enhancements are in each area, then search for that presentation within the theme that is was classified with. 3) Most of the presentations do not have voiceovers. A very few number of them do, but most do not. The technical material on the slides in the presentations should suffice for giving you adequate information about the enhancement. Some presentations are very short, some are longer -- depending on how big the enhancement is. This is what is different in IBM Education for z/OS V1R13 vs. prior z/OS releases. 4) The intended audience is technical professionals. There is no marketing information here, and the material is intended to give you important, technical details that you immediately need to understand what an enhancement is. If you are looking for marketing material, you can get that from the z/OS home page. 5) Here's the IBM Education Assistant link: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/topic/com.ibm.iea.zos/zos/ZOSv13.html 6) As always, if you want to give your feedback on these presentations in IBM Education Assistant, use the "Provide feedback on this material" link on the web page. We are hoping that this new direction of learning about release enhancements in IBM Education Assistant will be helpful to you. Thanks, Marna WALLE z/OS System Installation IBM Poughkeepsie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
