Mainframe work

[Sysman]

Learn COBOL and FORTRAN, then you can go FORTH.

Oh I love COBOL compiler listings.

"Period missing. Period assumed"

and then it proceeds as if it hasn't assumed a period at all and throws errors all through the rest of the listing.

Good work if you can get it.

[Normie]

I fancy a go on one. Bit bored of crappy vmwared windows and even big solaris boxes don't excite me anymore.

I'm getting some new Solaris toys to play with soon - a T4-1, a T4-2, a T4-4 and some blades for a 6000 chassis -a couple of T4-1b, a storage blade and some x86 blades. Then I've got to try to work out what to do with them.

[darmstadt]

I'm getting some new Solaris toys to play with soon - a T4-1, a T4-2, a T4-4 and some blades for a 6000 chassis -a couple of T4-1b, a storage blade and some x86 blades. Then I've got to try to work out what to do with them.

Just got a couple of z196'es (sadly no zBX frames) which we've now set-up for GDPS. Mainframes, being keeping me in business for over 30 years now and still invoicing well :-)

[portseven]

Just got a couple of z196'es (sadly no zBX frames) which we've now set-up for GDPS. Mainframes, being keeping me in business for over 30 years now and still invoicing well :-)

the zBX thing smacks a bit of 'me too'

They see the world is going towards commodity hardware so they bolt some on the size of a system z - its like the bride of frankenstien

[DodgyAgent]

Learn COBOL and FORTRAN, then you can go FORTH.

Or PL/1 if you want to really move ahead

[AlfredJPruffock]

Not a patch on good old 370 Assembler - I worked in MFrames for - oh - 12 years - Systems Programmer - VM - MVS DOS-VSE - then the comms stuff VTAM NCP - did it all.

Oh on the dev side REXX for VM - best thing since 360 assembler.

[darmstadt]

the zBX thing smacks a bit of 'me too'

They see the world is going towards commodity hardware so they bolt some on the size of a system z - its like the bride of frankenstien

I remember using Lotus 123 and Wordperfect on a mainframe some 25 years ago, bloody awful. I've been talking with people who were doing testing of ISV software with zBX and they're quite impressed with them, personally can't see any use yet but one day...Don't forget that mainframes were doing virtualisation long before those upstarts such as VMWare and that MVS was the first OS to be fully UNIX (XPG 4.2 IIRC) compliant...