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    Mainframe work

    How do you get into it from a standing start?
    While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

    #2
    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    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.

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      #3
      Originally posted by doodab View Post
      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.

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        #4
        Originally posted by BigTime View Post
        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.

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          #5
          Originally posted by stek View Post
          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

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            #6
            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
            Politicians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!

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              #7
              Originally posted by doodab View Post
              How do you get into it from a standing start?
              A more interesting question would be - why do you want to?
              "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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                #8
                Originally posted by Freamon View Post
                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.
                While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by doodab View Post
                  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.....

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                    #10
                    Learn COBOL and FORTRAN, then you can go FORTH.

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