This 2-day Sterling Connect:Direct® for z/OS Administration course provides an overview of the various administrative tasks and its functions. The course explains the work of each administrative task, the initialization parameters and statistics facility. The course explains the various security concepts and protocols, security exits and user exits. The course also provides an overview of Sterling Connect:Direct Secure Plus for z/OS configurations.

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Describe the administrative tasks.
• Add/Update Netmap entries.
• Add/Update User Authorization.
• Describe Sterling Connect:Direct/Plex configuration.
• Describe the Sterling Connect:Direct initialization parameters.
• Explain the Sterling Connect:Direct statistics facility.
• Configure the statistics facility to retrieve data.
• Describe the security implementation.
• Describe the User exits implementation.
• Explain the configuration of Sterling Secure Plus with Sterling Connect:Direct z/OS.

This course is designed for administrators, implementors, application users, and application programmers who intend to use Sterling Connect:Direct on z/OS systems.

The following are the prerequisites for taking this course:

• Fundamentals of Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS.
• Knowledge of z/OS and ISPF-based system.

The following topics will be covered during this course:

• UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION
• Course Overview   
  • Lesson 1. Introduction
  • Lesson 2. Administration Tasks
• UNIT 2. INITIALIZATION AND STATISTICS
  • Lesson 1. Initialization Parameters
  • Lesson 2. Statistics Facility
• UNIT 3: SECURITY
  • Lesson 1. Security Implementation
  • Lesson 2. User Exits
  • Lesson 3. Secure Plus Option for z/OS
• Course Wrap up

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process:

http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.