Mainframe work

[doodab]

How do you get into it from a standing start?

[stek]

How do you get into it from a standing start?

Hercules emulator, MVS or Z/OS from internet, MVS is more or less freeware, Z/OS is out there but not err, legal. 16gb as well. Runs on PC or Mac via Hercules. Plenty info there that Google will fill in.

Get used to DASD (disks I think), JCL, and a totally different way of working, like dead old style!

I had a bash, got it up and running cos sometimes due to lack of desks at work I have sit with the Mainframe guys and they speako differento lingo so I had a crack at it. Binned it in the end.

[BigTime]

How do you get into it from a standing start?

get a contract with a client that has them where your specialisation (say a piece of software on windows or unix) is the key requirement. same goes for as400, tandem & vms. if you know a cross platform product and that's what they need, teaching you a few commands to do the same tulip in a different place isn't a big deal.

[stek]

get a contract with a client that has them where your specialisation (say a piece of software on windows or unix) is the key requirement. same goes for as400, tandem & vms. if you know a cross platform product and that's what they need, teaching you a few commands to do the same tulip in a different place isn't a big deal.

Not exactly 'mainframe work' tho is it, knowing a few things to type.

[BigTime]

Not exactly 'mainframe work' tho is it, knowing a few things to type.

it's a start and if you want to turn into a bearded freak, nobody will hold you back

[portseven]

one route in could be via Linux, a few places that havesystEm z are enabling a few IFLs and putting Linux on them

I have learnt a few thing at current client due to having to get a Linux capability stood up on z

[Freamon]

How do you get into it from a standing start?

A more interesting question would be - why do you want to?

[doodab]

A more interesting question would be - why do you want to?

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

[stek]

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

Try a monster pSeries, POWER7 795, nice...

Will run AIX or ppc Linux LPARs, dual VIO's, NPIV, hypervisor in firmware.....

[AtW]

Learn COBOL and FORTRAN, then you can go FORTH.