Liberty profile is a new application server run-time model that is available on all platforms supported by the WebSphere Application Server V8.5 product.

The IBM WebSphere Application Server "Liberty Profile" is a significant new approach to application serving. The Liberty Profile is designed to be composable, lightweight, dynamic and fast: Liberty is small, lightweight, highly composable, fast-to-start, dynamic application server runtime environment, with simple configuration. It can be deployed and started in seconds so it's an ideal Java runtime for the cloud.

Liberty for z/OS provides the same features as Liberty on other platforms along with independently enabled extensions that exploit z/OS facilities such as Workload Manager (WLM), Resource Recovery Services (RRS) and System Access Facility (SAF), which provides close integration with the z/OS operating system.

WebSphere Liberty for z/OS provides the base infrastruture for z/OS Connect and WOLA which enables z/OS systems such as CICS and IMS to better and more easily participate in today's Mobile computing environment.

This course introduces the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile on z/OS and covers installation and configuration. It describes how to install and administer a Liberty profile server as a started task, along with command-line scripts. The course also explains how to manage and monitor a Liberty for z/OS server environment.

• Describe the characteristics and architecture of the Liberty profile
• Install and configure the z/OS Liberty profile
• Describe Liberty profile features that are specific to z/OS
• Deploy applications to a server
• Create and configure z/OS Liberty profile servers
• Deploy applications by adding configuration elements and by using a monitored directory
• Configure data sources and application security
• Use tools to monitor, tune, and troubleshoot Liberty profile resources
• Use the Administration Center to manage Liberty servers

This intermediate course is for experienced data professionals such as z/OS system programmers who are responsible for the installation and customization of WAS V8.5 liberty for z/OS, along with Information Technology (IT) professionals responsible for the deployment applications into WAS V8.5 liberty on z/OS.

You should have experience with the installation and customization of z/OS and its subsystems, including WLM, UNIX Services, and the Security Server (Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)), or equivalent product.

Unit 1. Overview

• Describe the Liberty profile
• Describe Liberty profile runtime architecture
• Describe the functions provided by Liberty profile
• Describe Liberty product packaging
• Describe Liberty feature configuration
• Describe the different options for using WebSphere Liberty in the Cloud
• Describe the platform specific features of Liberty for z/OS
• Describe the reasons to migrate your applications to Liberty

UNIT 2. Installing WebSphere V8.5.5 Liberty on z/OS

• Identify key tasks for WebSphere Liberty for z/OS implementation
• Explain the installation methods
• Explain the role of the Installation Manager
• Design a WebSphere Liberty for z/OS configuration for initial install
• Execute the WebSphere Liberty for z/OS installation jobs
• Configure the Java Runtime
• Update the Liberty profile runtime code

UNIT 3. Working with Liberty profile servers

• Describe the architecture of WebSphere Liberty for z/OS servers
• Set up the Liberty profile
• Create the Liberty profile server
• Start the server
• Start a Liberty Profile server from the UNIX command line
• Start the server and Angel process as z/OS started task
• Work with the server.xml file
• Add new configuration options
• Deploy an application
• Configure dynamic application updates
• Describe the z/OS Extensions to the Liberty Profile

UNIT 4. Administration and management

• Configure and manage a Liberty profile runtime environment.
• Deploying an application
• by adding configuration elements
• by using a monitored directory
• Use tools to monitor, tune, and troubleshoot Liberty profile resources
• Use the monitor feature, monitor the server status
• Use the Administration Center to manage Liberty servers
• Use jConsole
• Monitor the Liberty profile runtime remotely using a REST connector
• Implement multi-server Liberty deployments
• Describe scalability and failover options of Liberty server
• Setting up a Liberty collective
• configure a Liberty collective consisting of a controller and a member.
• add a new member and set up a Liberty cluster

UNIT 5. Security

• Enable Liberty security services
• Authentication
• Authorization
• SSL
• Configure the basic security setup
• Implement Liberty administrative security
• Enable z/OS authorized services on the Liberty profile for z/OS
• Configure SAF (RACF) Security
• Configure SAF Authorization
• Configure SAF authentication
• Enable SSL using z/OS SAF Keyrings
• Implement z/OS System Security Access Domain
• Configure data sources and application security
• Configure authentication aliases for the Liberty profile.
• Enable sync to OS thread z/OS security

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