VM Concepts and Facilities

Duration

Overview

Audience

Prerequisites

Objectives

• Understand the principles of VM
• Appreciate the reasons for having VM
• Recognize the roles and responsibilities of the Computer Operator with a VM system
• Have a good working knowledge of VM/CMS commands and facilities, i.e. attach/detach users, log on/off VM, display users/devices, and manipulate printers

Course Content

Unit 1 INTRODUCTION TO VM

• Concepts of Virtual Machine
• Spooling
• Configuration of Real Machine Room
• Query Virtual Command
• Configuration of Virtual Machine Room

Unit 2 LOGGING ON AND DIALLING TO VM

• Logging onto VM
• Query Logmsg
• IPL CMS

Unit 3 LOGGING OFF AND DISCONNECTING VM

• Logging off VM
• Disconnecting from VM

Unit 4 VM USER CLASSES - INTRODUCTION TO THE QUERY COMMAND

• Introduction to the Query Command
• QUERY - CP Command
• QUERY - CMS Command
• Classes of Users

Unit 5 DISPLAY USERS ON THE SYSTEM

• QUERY USERS Command
• QUERY NAMES Command

Unit 6 THE QUERY COMMAND

• QUERY DEVICES Command
• PA1, PA2, CLEAR Keys

Unit 7 SPOOLING

• 3 Types of Spooling
• Displaying Queues
• QUERY FILES Command
• QUERY PUN, PRT, RDR Command

Unit 8 VARYING DEVICES ON AND OFF LINE

• VARY Command

Unit 9 STARTING THE VM PRINTERS

• Spool Files - Held Files
• START Command and Operands
• AUTO / MANUAL Printmode
• SETUP Mode
• BACKSPACE Command
• Backspace

Unit 10 STOPPING THE VM PRINTERS

• DRAIN Command - ALL/PRT/PUN/RDR
• FLUSH Command
• CHANGE Command

Unit 11 CMS FILELIST

• VM User's DASD
• Filelist Utility
• Filename, Filetypes, Filemode

Unit 12 THE CP COMMANDS - ATTACH AND DETACH

• OFFLINE / ONLINE DEVICES
• ATTACH Command
• DETACH Command

Unit 13 CMS RDRLST

• RDRLST Utility and Functions
• PFK Definitions
• PEEK Command
• RECEIVE Command

Unit 14 CMS XEDIT

• VM Editor
• SET COLOUR Command
• SET SCALE Command
• SET NUM ON Command
• Editing a File