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Is there anything particularly different about mainframes compared to working on a server besides it probably being a different operating system? I assume it ha

• julian_t 2y ago
  It's a very different (and foreign) environment. Job control language, how data is stored... if you come from a typical modern server environment you'd be pretty lost in the mainframe world.
  • macintux 2y ago
    In 1996 I took a TCP class in Chicago for which it turned out I was overqualified; it was mainly how to use tools like telnet and FTP. But what I remember most: the two other students were mainframe programmers, and they were just as baffled by my world as I was by theirs. It really was an entirely different computing paradigm, although 30 years later I probably have enough experience to make more connections than I could then.
• lefessan 2y ago
  You can find videos on Youtube, it's like an IDE where you would do everything in a user interface with menus, but the interface is a 25x80-char screen only :-) Everything is "almost" similar to a Unix system, but with different names, files are called "datasets", there are very few tools, but every one of them has a language to do very complex tasks...