66901: Able Baker to Mainframer - What I Wish I’d Learnt at College About Enterprise Computing Systems
Project and Program:
Core Platform,
z/OS Systems Programming
Tags:
Proceedings,
SHARE DC 2025,
2025
The mainframe is a difficult system to onboard. EBCDIC codepages, Keyrings, Data
Sets with Fixed Blocks and more as well as the need to become versant at 3270
dialogs for proficient system programming. To folks at college these are often
barriers to entry, not because they're difficult, but because there is a hill to
climb and information disparate and often dated. This talk will provide the
skills and tools to quickly summit, from the experience perspective of three
mainframers with differing background, sharing what they wish they'd learnt at
college and now want to share with the SHARE attendees, both new and
experienced, about the tips and tricks, the cheat sheets, and the background
behind why, as well as the solutions for, the idiosyncracies of the platform
that make the IBMz such a fantastic enterprise computing system
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