On 3/26/09 12:54 PM, "Le Grande Valerie" <valerie.legra...@sentry.com> wrote: > Also, z/OS sysprogs tend to be more > adamant about having monitoring tools for the "whole box" picture, > procedures and automation for operations staff, reliability, recovery and > reliable DR procedures, etc etc. for a production system than those from > the distributed side in our shop. For z/VM, this is all new stuff for us.
As they should be. Keep in mind that many of the z/OS tools also have the ability to eat VM stuff. It may be a bit rusty, but tools like Netview have some really handy stuff already implemented that can be a big help. > Thanks also to those who have suggested training resources. As mentioned > > by others, IBM is not scheduling a lot of classes (or they get canceled). > > Prices have gone up on them, too, from days past, so other recommendation > s > are most appreciated. There is a list of non-IBM education providers for z/VM and Linux training at http://www.vm.ibm.com/education/ (about halfway down the page). All are good choices, and all have extensive VM and Linux expertise. I know at least one of them charges far less than the IBM courses cost...8-) -- db
