| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Contemporary Mainframes |
| Unit ID: | ITECH2308 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (ITECH1104) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 020117 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This course introduces students to mainframe concepts with knowledge and skills necessary to begin using the basic facilities of a mainframe computer,preparing them for a career in large systems computing. It covers the concepts of contemporary mainframes including their business usage, architecture, dataset types and mainframe user interfaces. In the context of programming,students are introduced to various mainframe programming andscripting languages. This course provides the basis for students to pursue subsequent course work in more advanced, specialised areas of mainframes, such as system administration or application programming. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Discuss benefits to businesses using mainframes. |
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| K2. | Describe the basic concepts of mainframe computers including hardware, architecture and business use. |
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| K3. | Contrast the usage of various operating systems on mainframes. |
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| K4. | Contrast the application of different types of data sets in a z/OS environment. |
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| K5. | Define typical mainframe workloads and its major areas of application. |
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| K6. | Interpret various mainframe programming and scripting languages and their application. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Utilise mainframe user interfaces such as: TSO, ISPF and SDSF. |
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| S2. | Apply technical skills for maintaining job processes, status checking and evaluation of output. |
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| S3. | Implement and manage various types of mainframe data sets using system interfaces. |
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| S4. | Write, compile and run programming code and scripts on a mainframe operating system. |
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| S5. | Use video demonstrations to communicate and present solutions to a business problem. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Demonstrate initiative and judgement to apply mainframe technologies and techniques to unique and diverse business contexts. |
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| A2. | Relate and interpret emerging technologies of large computing systems to ever increasing business needs. |
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| Unit Content: |
•Mainframe use in business.
•Mainframe hardware.
•Mainframe operating systems.
•Data sets in a mainframe environment.
•Typical mainframe workloads and its major areas of application.
•Mainframe system interfaces.
•Batch job processing.
•Mainframe programming and scripting languages.
•Compiling and link-editing programs on mainframes.
•Data and storage management - Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K6, S1, S2, S3, S4 | The tasks will develop skills in the analysis and practical application of content introduced. | Lab Exercises and Practical tests | 30%-40% | | 2. | K6, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, A1 | Self-directed initiatives aimed at producing an artifact that demonstrates skill acquisition | Assignment(s) and Presentation(s) | 30%-40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, A2 | Participate in lectures and labs/tutorials, read and summarise theoretical and practical aspects of the course. | Tests and Examinations | 20%-30% |
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