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The course provides students with an overview of the IT systems and facilities that large corporations and government organizations use to manage their daily IT operations. The content of the module is mainly based on the use of modern mainframe computers and the mainframe technology used. In detail, the course covers the following topics: Overview, Processing Basics, z-Systems Architecture and Hardware, Firmware and RAS, z/OS Operating System, Input/Output Processing, Data Organization, Virtualization and System Management, Unix and Linux on z-Systems, Clustering and Sysplex, IT Infrastructure.

The students master the learned system structures and computer architectures as they are used by large companies and can apply them in a problem-oriented manner. This enables the students to apply the advantages and disadvantages of these IT methods to new scenarios in industrial practice in a situation-appropriate manner and to expand them competently. Furthermore, the students can justify and present the necessary system decisions.

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