This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you to become familiar with the technical changes that were introduced into the Operations areas with IBM z/OS® V2R2.

This book includes the following chapters:

This book is one of a series of IBM Redbooks publications that take a modular approach to providing information about the updates that are included with z/OS V2R2. This approach has the following goals:

We hope you find this approach useful and we welcome your feedback.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.

Keith Winnard is the z/OS Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively and is keen to engage with customers to understand what they want from IBM Redbooks Publications. Before joining the ITSO in 2014, Keith worked for clients and Business Partners in the UK and Europe in various technical and account management roles. He is experienced with blending and integrating new technologies into the traditional landscape of mainframes.

Natalia Barros is a Systems Programmer at Banco do Brasil, a government bank in Brazil. She has seven years of mainframe experience and holds a degree in Computer Science. Her areas of expertise include storage architecture, mainframe hardware configuration, Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS), and remote copy solutions.

Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr is an IT Specialist in Integrated Technology Delivery, ServerSystems Operations/Storage Management in IBM Brazil. He has seven years of experience inz/OS, working with storage management since 2007. Jose works mainly with IBM storage products (DFSMSdfp, DFSMSdss, DFSMShsm, and DFSMSrmm), but he also works with OEM software products. Jose’s areas of expertise include installing and maintaining storage products, and process automation.

Wilson de Figueiredo is z/OS System Programmer. He manages the operations support team at Banco do Brasil, a government bank in Brazil. He has more than 11 years of experience in mainframe systems. He holds a system analysis, internet consulting, and busineSs administration degrees. His areas of expertise include IBM Parallel Sysplex®, z/OS security, and z/OS availability.

Paul Robert Hering is an IT Specialist at the ITS Technical Support Center, Mainz, Germany. He provides support to clients with z/OS and z/OS UNIX related questions and issues. He has participated in several ITSO residencies since 1988, writing about UNIX related topics. Before supporting IBM OS/390® and z/OS, Robert worked for many years with the IBM VM operating system and its variations (VM/370, VM/HPO, VM/XA, and VM/ESA).

Jaqueline Mourao is a Senior Systems Programmer at Banco do Brasil, a government bank in Brazil. She has 13 years of mainframe experience and holds a degree in Information Systems. Her areas of expertise include z/OS installation and maintenance, IBM Parallel Sysplex, and security.

Ewerton Waki is an IT Analyst at Banco do Brasil, a government bank in Brazil. He has four years of experience in mainframe systems, including IBM GDPS®, DFSMS, high-end storage systems, and remote copy solutions. He holds a Bachelor in Information Systems from Universidade Estadual de São Paulo. His area of expertise includes DFSMS and storage performance for mainframe environments.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Bob Haimowitz (Development Support Team [DST], Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the systems, and providing valuable advice, guidance, and assistance throughout the creation of this IBM Redbooks publication.

Rich Conway (DST, Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the systems, and providing valuable advice, guidance, and assistance throughout the creation of this IBM Redbooks publication.

Peter Bertolozzi (Systems Management specialist, IBM Redbooks residency support, Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the environments within syslab in which residents worked.

John Gierloff (Operations, Poughkeepsie Center) for residency set up and support.

Don Brennan (DST, Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the systems hardware used in the creation of this IBM Redbooks publication.

Ella Buslovich (Graphics specialist, location) for providing guidance and specialist graphics for this IBM Redbooks publication.

Ann Lund (ITSO Administration, Poughkeepsie Center) for administrative support to enable the residences publication.

Cheryl Gera (ITSO Administration, Poughkeepsie Center) for managing the business operations for this IBM Redbooks publication.

 

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