Original Message johnmbouma
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:06 PM
I am currently in a college class where we use cobol,
370 assembler and jcl on a system9 ibm mainframe.
I set up a herc/turnkey environment ...
I second Jo on this and URGE YOU to continue with herc
and MVS 3.8j, even Assembler 370, but forget COBOL.
You need to master current, modern COBOL which you can
accomplish short-term by visiting Prof. Don Higgin's website
at www.z390.org. Don's Java-based zASM and zCOBOL at
www.zcobol.org are modern, state-of-the-art implementation
which I recomend you should evaluate and consider to use,
instead of, in addition to and/or in combination with TK3.
Above I wrote "short-term"...
Anyone, where have IBM's brilliant marketing gurus of yesterday
gone? Why is a student, the next generation mainfame specialists
scrootching around in an attic for anything useful to learn COBOL?
Why can't he download a "zLCD" personal-use licensed z/OS 1.4
with all tools needed for learning mainframe programming?
Andreas F. Geissbuehler
AFG Consultants Inc.
http://www.afgc-inc.com/
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