lboc

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by lboc 7y ago
IBM runs an annual 'Master the Mainframe' competition for schools, but also give away year-long free access via the 'Learning System': https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/ast/mtm/audit.n
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by lboc 7y ago
Agreed. I just read "...uses it..." to include things other than the main processors. (edit: misquote)
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by lboc 7y ago
ISTR reading somewhere they're used in the I/O hardware (OSA etc)?
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by lboc 7y ago
Ugly, unfriendly and complex is par for the course with enterprise software in my experience :) Having said that, TSM (what they called it before the rebranding) was the only commercial offering we found that would reliably back up and reco
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by lboc 7y ago
Ha, yeah should probably have mentioned that :)
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by lboc 7y ago
No problem :) If you're really keen, the base z/OS docs can be found here when you've got a spare couple of decades: https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...
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by lboc 7y ago
A couple of links here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ib... http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5346.pdf Plus one that I seem to be posting on
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by lboc 7y ago
IBM hardware has supported packed decimal arithmetic for... ever? The z9 hardware onwards includes decimal floating point (IEEEsomethingorother) support[0] (sizeable PDF warning). [0] http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs&#x
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by lboc 7y ago
Both IBM Enterprise COBOL [0] and GnuCOBOL [1] are in active development, and recent releases (September 2017 for both) appear to include support for the COBOL2014 standard. Not perhaps in the same league as more fashionable languages, but
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by lboc 7y ago
FYI on IBM mainframes, MVS has included an integrated Unix environment since 1993 [0]. This continues to be developed and supplied with the latest versions of z/OS :) Here's someone asking about doing just that: https:/&#x2F
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by lboc 7y ago
Free year-long accounts from IBM: https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/ast/mtm/audit.nsf/enrollal... ?
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by lboc 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Parallel_Sysplex#Geographi...
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by lboc 7y ago
I like this: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246366.html?Open
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by lboc 7y ago
How about: 'Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics' http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246366.html?Open This, and the 'ABCs of Systems Programming' series were pretty good I though
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by lboc 8y ago
>There's a lot of care about not disturbing other people in Japanese culture. Not in Tokyo.
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by lboc 9y ago
Not sure about Japan tbh.