Nicola, Following Kees's suggestion, may I point you to the following manual that catches my attention each time I go looking up a z/OS manual: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/zosbasic.pdf
I just called it up and I see it starts with the birth of the mainframe in the 1950s! I don't expect you'll need all nearly 650 pages to get suitable orientation. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 09 December, 2005 11:22 AM Subject: Re: public available IBM mvs machines ? > Nicola, > > You better find a course on mainframe basics. > > A mainframe is a large machine with dozens or hundreds of applications and hundreds or many thousands users. > > You don't logon to a mainframe, you logon to an application running on it. All applications are different and serve their own purpose. > > Mainframes run business-critical applications and are highly secured, so you probably won't find a publically accessable one. > > Kees. > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > > Nicola: > > > > > > What is your purpose for having access to an IBM mainframe? > > > > learning purpose. > > > > - Nicola. > > > > > ********************************************************************** > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. > ********************************************************************** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
