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IBM Certified Administrator - Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS V8.3


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Job Role Description / Target Audience

An IBM Certified Scheduler - Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS V8.3 is a technical professional responsible for installation planning, configuration, customizing and tuning, scheduling, administering, troubleshooting, documenting, and transferring skills for an IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for V8.3 solution in a z/OS environment. This individual will be expected to perform these tasks with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and support resources.


Recommended Prerequisite Skills

Key Areas of  Competency
  • Interpret and implement user scheduling requirements.
  • Interpret and implement user requirements for managing event driven workload (ETT, DataSet Triggering, etc).
  • Manage the scheduling environment, handling exceptions (jobs ending in error, scheduling changes, etc) as needed.
  • Diagnose and correct problems with the TWSz environment (configuration errors, jobtracking issues, performance problems, etc.
  • Use the IBM Software Support structure as appropriate.

Required Prerequisite(s)
The following qualifications are requirements for success:
  • Extensive experience as a TWSz scheduler (planning, managing the TWSz databases, implementing schedule requirements).  Skill Level - 4
  • Understanding the TWS scheduling concepts and terminology as presented in the TWS z/OS documentation library and redbooks.  Skill Level - 3
  • Restart and Clean up functions.  Skill Level - 3
  • Working knowledge with z/OS environment (TSO, ISPF, z/OS parmlib structure, SMPE,  JES).  Skill Level - 2
  • Basic familiarity with the various communication protocols (e.g. VTAM / XCF / TCPIP).  Skill Level - 2
  • Basic awareness z/OS Security applications (RACF).  Skill Level - 2

Recommended Prerequisite(s)
In addition, experience in the following areas is highly recommended:
  • Familiarity with Job Scheduling Console.
  • Basic understanding of End to End environment .

1 - Basic Skill/Knowledge: Familiarity with basic functionality and concepts, may need to rely on assistance from documentation or other resources.
2 - Working Skill/Knowledge: Working knowledge of functionality and concepts, can use product or explain concepts with little or no assistance.
3 - Advanced Skill/Knowledge: Substantial experience with functionality or concepts, can teach others how to use functionality or explain concepts.
4 - Expert Skill/Knowledge: Extensive and comprehensive experience with functionality or concepts, can create or customize code, architecture, or processes.


Requirements

This certification requires 1 test(s).

Test(s):

  1. Test 935 - IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS V8.3 Administration



Test registration

Authorized Prometric test centers (worldwide testing)

Announcement

IBM certification tests to be delivered only through Prometric, beginning July 2, 2007