Audience
This intermediate-level course is for Network Administrators and system programmers who are new to NetView for z/OS and need to customize IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS using REXX and PIPEs.
Prerequisites
You must be familiar with networking concepts and practices and the techniques for monitoring a complex environment.
Familiarity with previous versions of NetView is helpful, but not required.
Duration
1 day. Hands on.
Course Objectives
IBM Z NetView for z/OS helps you maintain the highest degree of availability of your System z networks. It offers an extensive set of tools for managing and maintaining complex, multivendor, multiplatform networks and systems from a single point of control.
NetView for z/OS PIPEs teaches you how to code NetView PIPEs within REXX EXECs to simplify operations and perform automation by using NetView for z/OS. Topics include an overview of PIPEs, PIPE stages supplied by NetView, issuing commands (NetView, MVS, and VTAM) in a PIPE and processing their output, and some complex PIPE stages.
Lectures are reinforced with hands-on lab exercises.
- Describe the basics of NetView for z/OS PIPEs
- Write code for NetView PIPEs with REXX EXECS
- Issue commands
- Trap and parse messages
- Set and retrieve global variables
- Read from and write to files
- Code multiple stage PIPEs
- Perform automation
Course Content
Lesson 1: Overview of NetView pipelines
Lesson 2: PIPE stages
Lesson 3: Access files With PIPEs
Lesson 4: Pipelines and variables
Lesson 5: Manipulate text in a pipeline
Lesson 6: Process pipeline data
Lesson 7: Advanced topics