On 8/17/2011 4:34 PM, Tarran lost wrote:
Thanks for the information Steve. Next year I am looking into getting
some of your remote training as my employer won't pay for it but I
want to be Systems Programmer so I am willing to pay for it myself.
Right now I am on team that supports ISV products.
We finally upgraded all 8 of our SYSPLEX systems to z/OS 1.12 and to
save downtime for RMM and DFHSM reorgs we have been able to take
advantage of the CA Reclaim feature new in IDCAMS.
Don't know if this would help anyone else but thought I would toss it out there.
James
Thanks for the note.
Out of curiosity, where are you located? (Reply off-list if you wish.)
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Steve Comstock
<[email protected]> wrote:
For the last six or seven years, August / September
has been a very busy time for me. This is when the
IBM publications for the new release of z/OS become
available, and I download these pubs and read them,
looking for changes that impact your applications
programmers.
Then I update the courses I'm responsible for wherever
the new changes impact the course content.
Then I publish a brief synopsis of these changes to
my opt-in list and then various listservs and individual
clients. So here we go ...
This year the new release of z/OS is V1R13. There were
only a few aspects that may be useful to the typical
application programmer. Although the z114 was also
recently introduced, it only merits a minor mention
because it has the same instruction set as the
previously covered z196.
The usefulness of any particular feature will vary from
person to person, of course; I figure if you see something
that looks helpful to you that you can check the docs
(or, of course, schedule a class!)
--
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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