On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:49:50 -0400, scott <svet...@ameritech.net> wrote:
>On 03/28/2010 07:15 PM, Jim Marshall wrote: >> Bill Smith (ex-IBM'er) asked me a question and I told him I would post it on >> IBM-Main. Bill worked for IBM for many, many years and took off in a lateral >> direction getting a Masters in Education and was recently teaching JCL to 20+ >> French speaking (a bit of English too) trainees. Bill is curious if anyone has >> developed a course around using Hercules as the platform which I would >> imagine would be running MVS 3.8 versus some bandit version of z/OS. >> >> Let me know either on or off list and will relay it to Bill. Oh yes, he may be >> back on IBM-Main in the near future starting a full time job for some insurance >> company out in California dreaming land. >> >> thanks jim >> > Shouldn't be difficult to do. MVS 3.8 (under hercules) has the basics >of JCL and of course carried over into the new z/OS. There is no course >that I know of the uses MVS 3.8 running under hercules or not. > A few challenging topic-points, given the MVS and JES dated environment - OUTPUT statement; IF/ENDIF; DD standalone parameter (not sub-parm) for RECFM, LRECL, etc.; consideration of MODEL DSCB elimination with SMS; use of &SYSUID for DSN, NOTIFY, etc. Recent SYSIN constraint relief beyond LRECL=80. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
