Thanks to Dave for the excellent "Tasklist". I have one started that this will help me add to that. The challenge will be adding a timetable to tha t list.
Anyone's gross time estimate is at least helpful to me in justifying that what I propose is "in the ballpark". We don't have the z/VM expertise so everything is a learning experience. Also, z/OS sysprogs tend to be more adamant about having monitoring tools for the "whole box" picture, procedures and automation for operations staff, reliability, recovery and reliable DR procedures, etc etc. for a production system than those from the distributed side in our shop. For z/VM, this is all new stuff for us. Thanks also to those who have suggested training resources. As mentioned by others, IBM is not scheduling a lot of classes (or they get canceled). Prices have gone up on them, too, from days past, so other recommendation s are most appreciated.
