IBM SMPO Workload Scheduler Migrations

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Discover what a migration entails.
• Explain the history of OMA.
• Identify the benefits of using OMA and an IzWS Migration Specialist.
• Explore an overview of what happens during Pre-Sales.
• Explore the data collection process that happens during Pre-Sales.
• Explain how OMA processes the data, which allows the Sales Technical Migration Specialists (STMS) to come up with a time frame for a migration.
• Identify what early tasks happen after the contract is signed.
• Explore data collection using OCT.
• Identify the steps for information gathering, including details of the existing scheduler configuration, planning, kick-off, and security requirements.
• Navigate a simulation of the old scheduler.
• Identify reasons to do a simulation, what data is used and how it's processed, where and when it's run, and how it's used to recreate issues and develop fixes to ship to the client site.
• Explore IzWS installation and customization.
• Explain OMA installation and verification.
• Identify steps related to OMA conversion, including conversion flow, modification pre- and post-OMA, schedule criteria, complex rules build, forecast for one year, and new OMA runs with or without new data capture.
• Explore Parallel Tracking, including validation, daily reports, discrepancies and issues, updating OMA, and knowing when the migration team is ready for Go-Live.
• Explain different JCL changes (variables and utilities) and what is done during Parallel Tracking.
• Build IzWS education on a client-accessible system and determine job roles of all users of the old scheduler.
• Explore what happens leading up to, during, and after the Go-Live.