This course provides an overview of IBM mainframes. It provides foundational knowledge on mainframe ecosystems, application components, architecture, data formats, file systems, and external system integrations.
• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 60 minutes
Activities
This course includes presentations and assessments.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to do the following:
• Earn customers’ trust by speaking mainframe terminology.
• Use mainframe concepts to be able to ask customers qualifying business and technical questions.
• Connect customers’ mainframe environment needs to mainframe components.
• Use mainframe concepts to be able to ask deep-dive questions.
• Map customer mainframe workloads to solution architectures upon knowledge of overall mainframe architecture design.
• Integrate applications and data on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with customers’ mainframe applications by knowing what the common integration solutions are.
Intended audience
This course is intended for the following learners:
• AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions architects who aim to get foundational knowledge or a refresher about IBM mainframe ecosystems and components.
• AWS employees who get to know customer environments, mainframe migration expectations, and modernization drivers.
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
• Fundamental-level understanding of the AWS Cloud
Course outline
• Mainframe Ecosystem
• Mainframe Workload and Application Components
• Mainframe Data Formats and File Systems
• Transaction Managers and Databases
• Integrating with Mainframe Workloads
• Mainframe Development Tools and Languages
• Mainframe Migration and Other Migrations
