Didn't know there wasn't one already. I'm all for it - though given the recent flood of absolute newbie questions on SO (of the kind that could be answered by a

Didn't know there wasn't one already. I'm all for it - though given the recent flood of absolute newbie questions on SO (of the kind that could be answered by a two seconds Googling effort) I will be surprised if anything useful is being discussed. I remember sitting on a project at an insurance company with an internship girl opting for the "mainframe" career path next desk going like "wtf is this ABEND doing right there on the screen? talk about misinformation etc" ("Abend" is German for evening). I know very little about z/OS aka MVS. Our job was migrating legacy insurance bill printing to something newer given IBM has sold off their printing division to Ricoh/InfoPoint over ten years ago. It was very inspiring, however, since I came to learn SCRIPT/VS, DCF, and GML (the precursor to SGML, and what eventually became the base for HTML).