Re this comment: In a 2011 MVS environment, knowledge of Unix *is* necessary, unless you are in a niche, e.g., CICS.
Have you worked with CICS lately? CICS installation and maintenance requires HFS files. Web services and functions all utilize HFS files and therefore access to Unix. And of course Java support requires Unix. This is a drawback for CICS application programmers who do not know any Unix, or at least OMVS which tries to pass for Unix on Z/OS. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: restricting how I do things so that others understand? In <[email protected]>, on 07/22/2011 at 07:37 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said: >Everybody in my group is __old__. FSVO. They're younger than me, and I learn new things as appropriate. Besides, I remember a few "young fogies" who were resistant to learning anything new. >Others learn it because it is necessary. In a 2011 MVS environment, knowledge of Unix *is* necessary, unless you are in a niche, e.g., CICS. >The open people are amazed (and some refuse to believe) that I can >literally lose a CPU on the z with ZERO impact on operations. While I was amazed that losing a CPU on a SUN took down the whole box :-( -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
