The ABCs of z/OS System Programming is a thirteen-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced system programmer, the ABCs collection provides the information that you need to start your research into z/OS and related subjects. If you want to become more familiar with z/OS in your current environment, or if you are evaluating platforms to consolidate your e-business applications, the ABCs collection will serve as a powerful technical tool.

The contents of the volumes are:

Volume 1: Introduction to z/OS and storage concepts, TSO/E, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, and z/OS delivery and installation

Volume 2: z/OS implementation and daily maintenance, defining subsystems, JES2 and JES3, LPA, LNKLST, authorized libraries, Language Environment, and SMP/E

Volume 3: Introduction to DFSMS, data set basics, storage management hardware and software, VSAM, System-Managed Storage, catalogs, and DFSMStvs

Volume 4: Communication Server, TCP/IP and VTAM

Volume 5: Base and Parallel Sysplex , System Logger, Resource Recovery Services (RRS), global resource serialization (GRS), z/OS system operations, automatic restart management (ARM), Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GPDS), availability in the zSeries environment

Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF , Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990 integrated cryptography, zSeries firewall technologies, LDAP, Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM), and firewall technologies

Volume 7: Printing in a z/OS environment, Infoprint Server and Infoprint Central

Volume 8: An introduction to z/OS problem diagnosis

Volume 9: z/OS UNIX System Services

Volume 10: Introduction to z/Architecture, zSeries processor design, zSeries connectivity, LPAR concepts, HCD, and HMC

Volume 11: Capacity planning, performance management, RMF, and SMF

Volume 12: WLM

Volume 13: JES3

Chapter 1. Capacity planning overview

Chapter 2. Performance management

Chapter 3. Resource Measurement Facility (RMF)