Simple enough:
GET SYSIN,SYSSPACE
PUT SYSOUT,SYSSPAE
The hard part is before the get and after the put.
Good luck,
ja
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com>wrote:
> That is a very fair test, basic, and not high difficulty. Sometimes I get
> a bit miffed when I find out an interview for a technical position was held
> without me or any other technical person there. One "test question" back
> some years ago with I was working in Heidelberg was to ask the interviewee
> what would they do if they encountered some network problems.
>
> I didn't get that question because I was interviewing for a mainframe
> position, and with one manager level "MVS"kinda-sorta and another Unix guy
> that didn't say much. And knew diddly about mainframes.
>
> But the answer they were looking for about the network was the ping
> utility. To be honest, I would have probably gotten that one wrong because
> I would have gone deeper too look for a problem. Ping is such a staple
> utility used so much that I would have dismissed it as being just too
> obvious. Of course I would have started with something like ping, but I
> wouldn't have counted it as any sort of answer.
>
> Personally I would expect more from a professional. Ok, if someone says
> they are an assembler programmer, then sure, show us what you can do.
> Copying a file to a file seems trivial. But what if they aren't an
> assembler programmer? I'd say come back tomorrow with a working program,
> and explain briefly how it works in case it was simply copied from another
> source and (hopefully changed a bit). Copying code is fair game.
>
> Now you have me challenged to see if that would be a fair request. My
> assembler skills are next to nothing. Best I've done is a Rexx assembler
> function and that was mostly just going through a bunch load of control
> blocks. And I might as be a RISC programmer - I might know 40 instructions.
>
> Starting now, if I don't give up for some good reason, I am going to write
> an assembler program to copy a file. Something I've never done before, and
> I have no clue how to do it.
>
> Sounds like a nice challenge.
>
> Lindy Mayfield
>
>
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>
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> When they talk about their skills in Assembler, I ask them to write a
> simple program to copy one file to another. (I had a white boarxd in my
> office.) We then would critique the result. Sometimes the program was very
> good: short and effective. Other times, the result was a disaster. One
> couldn't do it at all. And HE was supposed to be the Assembler expert!
>
> Bottom line: you MIGHT dazzle us with brilliance; you certainly CANNOT
> baffle us with BS.
>
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