z/OS elements, features and functions

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MVS (BCP) Base Elements

IBM z/OS
Get Ready for Smarter Computing with z/OS.
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z/OS Introduction and Release Guide Version 2 Release 1

The following is a list of z/OS base elements:
Alternate Library for REXX
Base Control Program (BCP)
BookManager READ
Bulk Data Transfer (BDT)
Common Information Model (CIM)
Communications Server
Cryptographic Services (includes ICSF, OCSF Base, PKI Services, and System
SSL)
Distributed File Service
DFSMSdfp
EREP
ESCON Director Support
FFST
GDDM (includes PCLK and OS/2 Link)
Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD)
High Level Assembler (HLASM)
IBM HTTP Server (includes IBM HTTP Server NA Secure)
IBM Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS (IBM TDS for z/OS)
ICKDSF
Integrated Security Services (includes Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM),
Network Authentication Service, and Open Cryptographic Enhanced Plug-ins
(OCEP))
ISPF
JES2
Language Environment
Library Server
Metal C Runtime Library
MICR/OCR Support
Network File System
OSA Support Facility
Runtime Library Extensions
SMP/E
TIOC
TSO/E
z/OS Font Collection
z/OS UNIX System Services
3270 PC File Transfer Program

The following is a list of z/OS optional features:
BookManager BUILD
Bulk Data Transfer (BDT) File-to-File
Bulk Data Transfer (BDT) SNA NJE
Communications Server Security Level 3
DFSMSdss
DFSMShsm
DFSMSrmm
DFSMStvs
DFSORT
GDDM-PGF
GDDM-REXX
High Level Assembler (HLASM) Toolkit
Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM)
Infoprint Server
JES3
RMF
SDSF
Security Server (includes RACF)
XL C/C++
zEnterprise Data Compression (zEDC)
z/OS Security Level 3 (includes OCSF Security Level 3, IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS Security Level 3, Network Authentication Service Security Level
3, and System Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Security Level 3)

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Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics
An IBM Redbooks publication

Table of contents
Part 1. Introduction to z/OS and the mainframe environment
Chapter 1. Introduction to the new mainframe
Chapter 2. Mainframe hardware systems and high availability
Chapter 3. z/OS overview
Chapter 4. TSO/E, ISPF, and UNIX: Interactive facilities of z/OS
Chapter 5. Working with data sets
Chapter 6. Using Job Control Language and System Display and Search Facility
Chapter 7. Batch processing and the job entry subsystem

Part 2. Application programming on z/OS
Chapter 8. Designing and developing applications for z/OS
Chapter 9. Using programming languages on z/OS
Chapter 10. Compiling and link-editing a program on z/OS

Part 3. Online workloads for z/OS
Chapter 11. Transaction management systems on z/OS
Chapter 12. Database management systems on z/OS
Chapter 13. z/OS HTTP Server
Chapter 14. IBM WebSphere Application Server on z/OS
Chapter 15. Messaging and queuing

Part 4. System programming on z/OS
Chapter 16. Overview of system programming
Chapter 17. Using System Modification Program/Extended
Chapter 18. Security on z/OS
Chapter 19. Network communications on z/OS
Appendix A. A brief look at IBM mainframe history
Appendix B. DB2 sample tables
Appendix C. Utility programs
Appendix D. EBCDIC - ASCII table
Appendix E. Class programs
Appendix F. Operator commands

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Introduction and Release Guide; Version 2 Release 1
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Features and Functions

Capacity Provisioning
DFSMS
JES2
Language Environment
Metal C
Network File System
Output management software
PKI
Resource Access Control Facility
SAP on DB2 for z/OS on IBM System z
SMP/E
Software
SSRE
System Automation
System Display and Search Facility
Workload Manager
z/OS HCD and HCM
z/OS Management Console
z/OS Management Facility
z/OS RMF
z/OS UNIX System Services
z/OS XML System Services

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