I think dump reading is a matter of understanding control blocks. I dont believe some one can teach debugging, it evolves over years of examing and analyizing dumps. It always helps to have the source code.
just mt 2 cents Paul D'Angelo ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Don V Nielsen <donvniel...@gmail.com> To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: 3 job openings for mainframe Assembler/C programmers, dump readers Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 07:45:10 -0500 Where might one one find good instruction on how to read a dump? This is probably my poorest skill and I should be better at it. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:46 PM, William H. Blair <wmhbl...@comcast.net>wrote: > This is being posted with the permission of the list owner. (My sincere > thanks, Jean!) > > The infrastructure team I work with has three openings for mainframe > developers and/or product support personnel who have experience with any > useful combination of the following: Assembler, C, dump reading, SMP/E, > security systems (RACF/ACF2/TSS), etc. We are looking for people who can > read dumps (at least a little bit), write code to fix bugs, and develop new > stuff in Assembler and/or C. We assume you know JCL, TSO, ISPF, how to get > around an MVS system, and read IBM doc. If you are not a self-starter, > please don't bother (we're not going to do your job for you, and in many > cases the only documentation that exists is the code itself). It's OK to > have to refer to POPS to make sure you know how something works, but if you > can't understand it or won't use it, please don't bother. These positions > do > NOT require specific MVS subsystem knowledge (JESn, IMS, DB2, CICS, etc.), > but if you have any we won't hold it against you (other groups concern > themselves with those things). We deal with common, core, bare-metal MVS > services for the most part. > > In other words, these jobs are perfect for people who like to hang out here > (provided that your interests and talents are not limited to esoteric > trivia > ... I can probably beat you at that game). I can't think of a better place > to look for candidates, which is why I am asking. Most of the group has > been > together for 23+ years, but we are getting gray, some have retired or moved > on, so we need more like us ... gray hair or otherwise. Clearly, age is NOT > an issue. Brains ARE the issue. > > There is no "location" for these positions. While I live near Houston TX, > most mainframe developers, product support and QA folks work from home. Few > people have an office; most don't live near one in the first place. Our > four > zEC12 and z196 boxes are in Arizona, anyway, so everybody actually works > remotely. The team members live at locations that span 12 time zones (from > Hawaii to Russia & Israel). We do virtually everything online or on the > phone, so we really don't care where you live. These positions are perfect > for people who want to work, but don't want to move. > > If you have potential interest, please respond to me, individually, at my > personal email address. My email client can apparently neither provide nor > override the default Reply-To address for messages I send to the list; > therefore, do not mindlessly use either "Reply" or "Reply All" (I guess you > should consider that the first part of the IQ and > ability-to-follow-directions test). Instead, please direct your response to > me personally at mailto:wmhbl...@comcast.net. There is no need to forward > your resume; I am not interested in reading it at this time. Instead, I > will > tell you more about the positions, answer any questions you might then > have, > and tell you how to formally indicate interest (i.e., begin the application > process). > > wmhbl...@comcast.net > William H. Blair > MainView Infrastructure > BMC Software Houston TX >
