Introduction to AIX on Power

In this first course, students learn the fundamentals of the AIX operating system. The course provides a survey of the IBM Power platform as well as a hands-on exploration of essential AIX and UNIX tools and techniques. No Unix/Linux experience is assumed, but any prior exposure will be helpful.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Advantages and features of POWER platform

• AIX documentation

• Korn shell features & customization

• POSIX commands & utilities

• File systems and directory hierarchy

• Process monitoring & job control

• Vi editor

• Text processing and filters

• Shell programming & scripting languages

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and alternatives

• Similarities and differences between AIX and Linux