Does the ABCs of System Programming have tutorials on SMS? That might be a good place to start.
Historically, IBM has had a mix of good and bad classes. I still remember my 7070 class, where the instructor couldn't answer questions that the students could. There have been 3rd party instructors, but far too many have dropped out because companies were not willing to pay for training. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Nigel Morton [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2021 7:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Courses for Storage Admin Newbies Fred, There is an IBM course, SS84. It is, like most other storage-related IBM courses I've seen recently, very out of date but you might find a training provider who can still give it. Being out of date isn't a show stopper for basic education, imho. The course is actually for DFSMS implementation and mirrors the contents of z/OS DFSMS Implementing System-Managed Storage, SC23-6849 which might be a good place to start for reading up on the subject. You might also want to look into training for your hardware, too. I'm in the UK so I couldn't comment on training providers in the US which is where I assume you are. I know that at least one UK training company has a specific DFSMS course and I assume other trainers will too. I would expect IBM Tech U and SHARE to have sessions based on a specific function or covering what's new so probably not a great place for you to look. By way of an unscheduled rant, IBM courses and materials used to be excellent. The courses I've looked at over the past few years have declined significantly in quality. Some have been updated but very lazily: modules have been tacked on to the end with a bunch of release-based updates which are quick to do but create a course that's hard to follow and contains contradictions. It's a shame. On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 21:14, fred glenlake <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List-ers, > > Would any of you be able to recommend courses for newbie Storage > Administrators?? The shop is mostly IBM products, very few if any ISV > products. DFDSS is used for backups, restores. DFSMS is installed but > settings seem to be more minimal in nature with management classes settings > set to NOLIMIT for most management classes. DFHSM is installed but not > really doing anything since the management classes tell it not to do > anything. The previous Storage Admin retired (good for him) but he took > most of the working knowledge about the shop with him. I was brought in > to help train up some newbie resources to be Storage Admins. They have > expressed an interest in attending more formal courses along with the > one-on-one training I am providing. IBM has Tech U, SHARE is also usually > really good however both of these I would think would be for more > experienced Storage folks. Any suggestions for courses for newbies or > material they could review would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks. > > Fred G. > > > Sent from > Outlook<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1FPS2jhbsf9TXnDs0SsUin4bdlt2JCPiXsgVcbguH4zfIEvl6kQDe-jjNWWOXyJd-mu_oLLUhxs9iP4eb3uNc3afmSIPbZxS1KBmPgeob5lNHqZDG-SD-HkiL8VrpMY-AVRZ27OuSrDnvYkptpt1PXPwGQwSVCXaC0jmpw2f6KCEYwOOWx5zQMBcj_RQZs4Cucs8VR4--xeW5ykE90UssBpyD3EQaSCY7obekMNJKxriWVffu-_PseC3td2EAfHBb0y3JGk9KyHA4qG2WI-CVJdsGN0eE8POFjcMS94mtiVlRAoNmpn_m4aMbIC-IAyaKGkbgnrXCEhS_mmYCEjygnLc826CLbpWOsTKotqZPo0LwSvaOrAMp_FuftnaCqQl-n9iKcdEDSSyHOd1enfpcui-FPE1i0sM_e3pB-Ngwh0oE5Vh6L-E1odG2hjRAIwsX/http%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2Fweboutlook> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
