Bernd, I couldn't have said this better, bravo ! I have seen slam dunk testing in some MF environments without planning, understanding or critical thinking skills. Maybe it's my old age.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:23 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> wrote: > I would mention in such a presentation that the MF is the only architecture > that can reasonably pe programmed in ASSEMBLER language today, > because the instruction set is clear and straightforward and defined in > such a way that it is at the same time well performing on the machine > and understandable to humans. > > There is no other platform with existing applications in ASSEMBLER > language doing business critical work. And, if done correctly and supported > by people who have the needed skills to manage those applications, this > is no > problem at all. > > I also see just in the last few days, that there is another culture of > testing and > error recovery in the mainframe environment; we have component tests, > regression tests, diagnose tools, dumps etc., and we normally are able to > analyze the errors in a very early development stage and we find the source > of the error in the programs by ourselves and very fast. The software on > the > other platforms is often tested only in a very late state, when the > whole package > is built, and we then have to cope with strange program interruptions and > we get only minimal diagnose information which is not helpful - > at least that's my experience. > > Kind regards > > Bernd > > > > Am 15.02.2013 20:57, schrieb Gibney, Dave: >> I am doing a high (very high) level presentation for my managers who have >> no MF experience. I want a simple slide. Something like: >> IBM architecture is not RISC, there are nnn instructions. >> nnn Privileged >> nnn General >> nnn Decimal >> nnn Cryptographic >> etc. >> >> I've Googled and looked at some of the sites in the Dino ring including >> hlasm.com and haven't found it. I don't find a nice set of counts in Pops >> either. >> Anyone know of such a list(s) >> >> Dave Gibney >> Information Technology Services >> Washington State University >>
