z/VM Education - Roadmaps

Last Updated: 17 May 2023

In order to help provide meaningful progression for various roles of z/VM users we have broken the courses into four tracks or roadmaps. Choose a role that resembles your use case as close as possible, and then follow the roadmap courses in the order they are presented.

The roadmaps cover the following z/VM roles:

Basic z/VM Knowledge Roadmap
This track assumes you have little or no experience with the IBM mainframe, and your role will only require a basic knowledge of the product. The courses in this roadmap will touch on the basics, but will not include some of the advanced courses intended for z/VM System Programmers.
Examples of this role may include: Architect, Sales, Manager, General Operator

New z/VM System Programmer Roadmap
This roadmap is intended to be followed by someone new to the IBM mainframe that needs to have a comprehensive knowledge of z/VM for their job. This education will start at fundamentals of z/VM and progress through the advanced topics. This is the longest roadmap and contains all education modules.
Examples of this role may include: z/VM System Operator, z/VM System Programmer, z/VM System Administrator

Experienced z/VM System Programmer Roadmap
The advanced roadmap assumes you have previous IBM mainframe experience. Perhaps you have a background in z/OS and would like to learn more about z/VM. The education in this track skips some of the basic education found in the other roles.
Example of this role may include: z/OS System Programmer, Current z/VM System Administrator

In order to make the content available to all audiences and assure privacy compliance, there is no mechanism to track the progress of the roadmap completion. While you can log in with your IBMid on this site, it will not record your course progression.

z/VM education roadmap coverage

Reference the table below to find which videos are contained on the various z/VM education roadmaps.

Video Name	z/VM Basic Education Roadmap	New z/VM System Programmer Roadmap	z/VM Advanced Education Roadmap
100 - What is z/VM?
101 - z/VM Virtualization Basics
102 - CP and CMS Customization
103 - Twelve Pillars of System Management
104 - Introduction to System Administration
105 - Introduction to CMS Pipelines
106 - Introduction to RACF
200 - Rexx Coding Techniques - Part 1
201 - Rexx Coding Techniques - Part 2
202 - Problem Determination
203 - z/VM Virtual Switch (VSwitch): The Basics
204 - z/VM Introduction to the Directory Maintenance (DirMaint)
205 - z/VM Introduction to Single System Image (SSI)
206 - z/VM LGR and Relocation Domains
207 - z/VM Single System Image (SSI) - Usage Scenarios
300 - What's Going Wrong? LPAR Weights
301 - z/VM Virtual Switch (VSwitch): Advanced Topics
302 - z/VM SSI & LGR: Performance Topics