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System z Education

IBM Training

Information on IBM Training courses for System z may be found at these web sites. If you are not in the US or Canada, go to IBM Training, select your country then System z.

IBM Web Casts

Non-IBM System z Training

This is a non-exhaustive list of other training available.

Internet Discussion Lists

There are several internet discussion lists related to System z. You can find links to these at http://www.vm.ibm.com/techinfo/listserv.html. The primary discussion lists are:

  • IBM-MAIN for z/OS and related topics.
  • IBMVM for z/VM and related related topics.
  • LINUX-390 for Linux on System z and related topics.
  • VSE-L for z/VSE and related topics.

System z Academic Initiative

There is a lot of information at the System z Academic Initiative site. The course materials (slides) are available (some of these are not current).

The text books are available on the Redbooks site under the "Introduction to the New Mainframe" series:

Information Centers and the Education Assistant

The z/OS basic skills information center provides several courses, some of which are interactive web-based.

The z/VM information center provides a portal to resources for z/VM.

The IBM Education Assistant and provides material on several Software Group products and on z/OS.

The Linux on System z Information Center and provides a portal to information on Linux on System z.

ABCs of z/OS System Programming

A more detailed level of training is available in the "ABCs of z/OS System Programming" series:

z/OS Communications Server

z/OS V1R13 Communications Server TCP/IP series:

z/OS V1R12 Communications Server TCP/IP series:

z/OS V1R11 Communications Server TCP/IP series: