[TriLUG] MVS mainframes

[Ken Mink]

My last job was doing *NIX, OS400 and z/OS development. z/OS and *NIX
run on computers and that's about where the similarities end. There is
an add-on product for z/OS call UNIX System Services that creates a
unix environment, complete with filesystems and processes. It's akin
for a virtual machine, but not quite.

I was able to muddle through writing some code, but with lots of hand
holding from the real z/OS guys. There is no way I could have admin'ed
one of those beasts. Most stuff is still assembly code. It's a whole
other world.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Andrew
Gray<andrew.james.gray at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with MVS mainframes who might be able to shed
> some light on how they work from a users point of view?  I am still looking
> for work and was contacted about a position that entails working with one of
> these mainframes.  I have looked at the wikipedia entry and am unsure how
> much different it would be from using unix or linux.  I took a year of Red
> Hat in college and had played with FreeBSD and a couple distros for some
> time before that.  So basically I am more than comfortable with linux and
> run it full time and am wondering how difficult it would be to pick up and
> how different it would be.
>
> -Thanks for any help
> Andrew Gray
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