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beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:57 pm
by shankar0388
can any one tell me how to learn more about mainframe and it would be helpful for me to leanr more about it

and please provide any weblinks to learn more?

:)

Re: beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:08 pm
by NicC
Well, what have you tried so far? How many Google queries have you run.

Re: beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 2:31 am
by drclough
This is a good all around primer to start - goes into basics about how to get around the zOS environment and accomplish basic tasks. It also provides a good overview for other areas of exploration.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246366.pdf

Good Luck!

Re: beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:13 pm
by henri2398
Thanks for the link, even i was also looking to learn about Mainframe.
Thanks a Lot.

Re: beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:23 pm
by pinkupriyanka
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, how do i start with mainframes as i don't know much about it? I also need some material in which i can understand things properly.

Re: beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:49 pm
by NicC
Why ask the question when it is answered 2 posts above your question?

Re: beginner to mainframe

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:43 am
by steve-myers
pinkupriyanka wrote:Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, how do i start with mainframes as i don't know much about it? I also need some material in which i can understand things properly.


As NicC says, you should retrieve and look through the document from several years ago.

This site, a sister to our site, has links that you might find useful. Mainframes, which pretty much predate the *nix (Unix, Linux, and other systems with a similar look and feel) and Windows type systems have a very much different look and feel. Much of this is because of the limited hardware capabilities in the late 1960s and 1970s dictated this environment. It has been retained not so much that it is "better" than the *nix or Windows environment but because its users can be very productive in the environment.

OS/360 from the 1960s is the ancestor of MVS and z/OS. Truly, it was the first disk based batch oriented operating systems. DOS/360, the ancestor of z/VSE, was not truly a disk operating system. Rather is was a development of TOS/360, a tape resident operating system, very much in the model of running IBSYS/IBJOB, another tape system for earlier systems, on disk.