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We've made it easy for you to add Power courses to your curriculum. Whether you want IBM to provision the resources or want to do-it-yourself, choose one of these learning formats designed specifically for faculty and educators:
Download the course files. Customize the lesson plan to meet your needs, and provision the labs on your own Power hardware or on the Power Academic Cloud.
Reserve time on the IBM Remote Learning Platform. IRLP provides everything you need to teach our Power courses. You pick the start date and IBM provides the course materials, lab exercises, and provisions the Power resources for you and your students.
Go at your own speed with our self-paced courses and tutorials. If a course includes a hands-on lab, you must reserve access to our Digital Learning Platform by clicking the Reserve button located in the course description. You'll have access to the course materials for 12 months, starting from the time you first log in; and 30 days to complete the lab, starting from the first time you access the lab portion of the course.
Courses with no labs can be launched immediately by clicking the Launch button located in the course description.
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Self-paced (no labs)
Basic
2 hours
Course code: DL06010G
Course access: 12 months
This course covers the technical fundamentals of IBM Power10 processor and servers.
Power10 processor-based servers use the capabilities of the latest Power10 processor technology to deliver unprecedented security, reliability, and manageability for mission-critical workloads.
Objectives
Format
This is a self-paced course with no labs. Click Launch to access the course content.
Instructor-led
Basic
8 hours
Course code: OE98G
In this course, students will learn basic concepts and skills the need to be productive users on Power Systems with IBM i. With plenty of hands-on lab exercises, they will learn everything about signing onto the available user interfaces; green screen environment and IBM Navigator for i.
Students will then learn how objects are managed on the system and how to display these objects. They will learn to use control language (CL) commands (fast path) and how to work with and manage messages on the system. Students will also learn how to the system manages work and how to manage printouts. Lastly, students will also get a basic overview of security.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Objectives
After completing this course, students should be able to:
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Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Self-paced (with labs)
Basic
16 hours
Course code: AS24DG
Course access: 12 months
Lab access: 30 days
This introductory course enables a new system operator to develop basic to intermediate level skills needed for day-to-day operations of IBM i. Focus is given to using the GUI (IBM i Access Client Solutions and IBM Navigator for i) as well as 5250 emulation sessions to perform tasks including job control, monitoring, sending messages, managing systems devices, and more. Lab demos reinforce the lecture topics and prepare the student to successfully operate IBM i on IBM Power.
Objectives
Format
This is a self-paced course with hands-on labs. Submit a reservation request and we’ll contact you with instructions for accessing the course materials and labs on our digital learning platform.
Instructor-led
Basic
32 hours
Course code: AS24G
Updated to include IBM i 7.5.
This introductory course enables a new system operator to develop basic to intermediate
level skills needed for day-to-day operations of the Power System with IBM i. Focus is given
to using the GUI (IBM i Access Client Solutions and IBM Navigator for i) as well as 5250
emulation sessions to perform tasks including job control, monitoring, sending messages,
managing systems devices, and more. Hands-on exercises reinforce the lecture topics and
prepare the student to successfully operate a Power System with IBM i.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Objectives
Select a learning format
Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Intermediate
40 hours
Course code: OL19G
In this course, students will learn how to plan for, implement, and manage the ongoing operations of an IBM i. Emphasis is on security, system availability, backup and recovery, system software management, and problem determination. Also, get an introduction to the architecture and terminology of the IBM i.
Prerequisites
Students should:
Objectives
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Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Intermediate
40 hours
Course code: AS28G
This course covers the features and functions supported by Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS). BRMS is an integrated and comprehensive tool for managing backup, recovery, archive, and retrieval operations for a single Power system with IBM i or multiple systems with IBM i at a site or across a BRMS Network. The lectures describe how to perform the supported functions when using a 5250 emulation session, when using System i Navigator, and when using IBM Navigator for i.
Prerequisites
Students should have a working understanding of the capabilities and operations in the area of save and restore for IBM i.
Entry level knowledge of LPAR on current systems is helpful, but not required.
Objectives
Select a learning format
Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Advanced
24 hours
Course code: AS27G
This course is designed to enhance the skills of an IBM i System Operator.
Prerequisites
Students should be able to:
Objectives
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Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
This course is intended for IT architects, specialists, developers, sellers, and individuals who want to implement workloads on IBM Power using the IBM Cloud platform. It delves into the core concepts, management techniques, networking protocols, storage mechanisms, practical scenarios, and migration strategies of IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS). Participants will have gained a solid foundation and practical knowledge to confidently navigate the intricacies of IBM PowerVS and optimize its capabilities for their specific business needs by the end of this course.
Objectives
Self-paced (no labs)
Basic
7 hours
Course code: DL06011G
Course access: 12 months
Format
This is a self-paced course with no labs. Click Launch to access the course content.
Self-paced (no labs)
Basic
3 hours
Course code: DL06003G
Course access: 12 months
This course is designed to introduce networking fundamentals related to IBM Power Systems Virtual Server (PowerVS) within the IBM Cloud
Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to :
Format
This is a self-paced course with no labs. Click Launch to access the course content.
Instructor-led
Intermediate
24 hours
Course code: AS5EG
In this class, students learn the concepts of Logical Partitioning (LPAR) for Power Systems with IBM i. Students begin with an overview of LPAR on Power Systems, followed with more detailed information on configuration planning and implementation using hands-on exercises to create and implement logical partitions.
Students will also learn about partial processors, dynamic allocation and reallocation of memory, processors, interactive Commercial Processing Workloads (CPW), buses, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Host Ethernet Adapters (HEA) and System Planning Tool (SPT). In this course you will use IBM Power Systems including the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
Prerequisites
Students should have:
Entry level knowledge of LPAR on current systems is helpful, but not required.
Objectives
Select a learning format
Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Self-paced (with labs)
Advanced
16 hours
Course code: QZD33DG
Course access: 12 months
Lab access: 21 days
IBM PowerVC, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabling software, provides a self-service cloud console for managing IBM Power Systems. It is built on OpenStack. OpenStack is a collection of open-source software projects that enterprises can use to run their own private cloud infrastructure.
This course explains most cloud management features, starting with setting up a private cloud environment from the ground up. It then covers planning, sizing and other advanced administrative tasks you can perform to become an efficient system administrator.
Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
Format
This is a self-paced course with hands-on labs. Submit a reservation request and we’ll contact you with instructions for accessing the course materials and labs on our digital learning platform.
Instructor-led
Intermediate
16 hours
Course code: AS45G
This course will get you the skills you need to run and manage an IBM i cloud and DevOps environment. You will be introduced to the world of DevOps, Ansible, IBM PowerVC, Terraform, IBM Cloud Automation Manager and CI/CD concepts as they relate to IBM i. Learning these concepts will be easy with hands-on access to our lab environment.
Objectives
Select a learning format
Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises guides for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum.
Instructor-led
Intermediate
16 hours
Course code: OL23G
This course explains how to balance the workload on the IBM i system to ensure optimum performance. Specifically, this course explains how to manage workloads, measure system performance, and tune the operating system to meet processing requirements. Hands-on exercises give you the opportunity to use the system functions that are available for controlling workload and tuning system performance. Evaluation criteria presented in this course are based on the latest information available from IBM development labs.
Prerequisites
Students should be able to:
Objectives
Select a learning format
Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
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Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Intermediate
32 hours
Course code: OL66G
This course will help students to better understand the techniques of performance analysis and capacity planning on systems and partitions running IBM i and develop an appreciation of how IBM i operates and interfaces with applications. This course is expected to build skills to better manage performance and capacity on systems and partitions running IBM i.
The course explains IBM i concepts, including the Technology Independent Machine Interface (TIMI), main storage pools, auxiliary storage pools, management of jobs, threads, and tasks, job run-time structure, performance monitoring, data collection, and analysis of performance data. This course includes hands-on activities using performance data from IBM i systems to help the student appreciate the concepts discussed. This course is designed for those running Power Systems on IBM i.
The first part of this course (units 1-6) focus on teaching the performance management process, the performance considerations of key hardware components and virtualization options, and tuning options to help optimize performance. During these lectures, students should gain an appreciation of the unique storage management and work management components in the IBM i architecture and how these components need to be managed for optimal performance.
The second part of this course focuses on the tools and techniques to monitor, analyze, and plan for performance of Power Systems with IBM i and Logical partitions (LPARs). The primary analysis tool that will be used is the Performance Data Investigator (PDI) which is included with IBM Navigator for i. PDI is also used with IBM Systems Workload Estimator (WLE) for capacity planning activities.
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Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
please
Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Basic
32 hours
Course code: AS06G
This course teaches the basics of the IBM i RPG IV programming language. It is the first of two courses that should be attended in sequence.
Students will learn the basic features and functions of RPG IV for Version 7. It does not introduce information processing or programming in general. Students who are new to programming should attend other courses that are offered by local technical colleges or self-study methods.
Prerequisites
Students should be able to:
Objectives
This course is designed to enable a trained programmer to develop and maintain simple RPG IV programs written using the latest features and techniques available in the Version 7 compiler.
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Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
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Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Intermediate
32 hours
Course code: OL20G
Students will learn to write easy to use and efficient control language (CL) programs which may be used to perform a variety of system and application control functions. Students are taught to write basic and intermediate level, interactive, and batch CL programs, user commands, and CL programs that function as user tools (programs that use the output of display commands as input).
Prerequisites
Students should be able to:
Objectives
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Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
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Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
Instructor-led
Advanced
32 hours
Course code: AS10G
This course teaches additional skills and techniques to programmers who can already write comprehensive RPG IV programs.
This class offers a comprehensive discussion of some of the advanced features and functions of RPG IV. This class is designed to enable an experienced RPG IV programmer to develop and maintain RPG IV programs of an advanced level using the latest features and techniques available in the IBM i RPG IV compiler.
Prerequisites
Students must have completed these courses (or have equivalent experience):
In addition, students should be able to:
Objectives
Select a learning format
Let us provide everything you need to teach this course on the IBM Remote Learning Platform (IRLP). You pick the start date, and we provide the course materials, lab exercises, and provision the Power lab resources for you and your students. Click Reserve this course to get started.
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Download a .zip file of the course materials, which includes a prep guide and lab setup instructions for the instructor and course and lab exercises for students. Use in part or whole to enhance your existing and new curriculum. If you need access to Power resources to setup the labs, consider reserving this course on the IBM Remote Learn Platform, or request access to our
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