Good for you Tarran! Hope you make it. I were are one once and boy did my palms get sweaty at times!! Duffy
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Tarran lost <[email protected]> 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 > > 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!) >
