The IBM Redbook Series "ABCs of z/OS Systemprogramming" contains 11 Volumes of basic and expert knowledge to all z/OS related areas.
- Volume 1 provides an updated understanding of the software and zSeries archi­tecture, and explains how it is used together with the z/OS operating system. This includes the main components of z/OS needed to customize and install the z/OS operating system. The contents of the other volumes are as follows:
- Volume 2: z/OS implementation and daily maintenance, defining subsystems, JES2 and JES3, LPA, LNKLST, authorized libraries, SMP/E, Language Environment
- Volume 3: Introduction to DFSMS, data set basics storage management hard­ware and software, catalogs, and DFSMStvs
- Volume 4: Communication Server, TCP/IP, and VTAM
- Volume 5: Base and Parallel Sysplex, System Logger, Resource Recovery Ser­vices (RRS), global resource serialization (GRS), z/OS system operations, auto­matic restart management (ARM), Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
- Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF, Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990 integrated cryptography, zSeries firewall technologies, LDAP, and Enterprise identity mapping (EIM)
- Volume 7: Printing in a z/OS environment, Infoprint Server and Infoprint Central
- Volume 8: An introduction to z/OS problem diagnosis
- Volume 9: z/OS UNIX System Services
- Volume 10: Introduction to z/Architecture, zSeries processor design, zSeries connectivity, LPAR concepts, HCD, and DS8000
- Volume 11: Capacity planning, performance management, WLM, RMF, SMF