Thanks for the reassurance.

Thinking further, I now remember that their only debugger was TSO TEST! I
wrote a mixture of Rexx and CLIST commands to extend it a bit (show regs
and disassemble the next instruction, every breakpoint).

Is there anything more /modern/ that's given away with z/OS?

Roops.

On Sun., Nov. 29, 2020, 18:02 Charles Mills, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some people use SSH and similar tools but ISPF works just like it always
> did; perhaps a tiny bit better.
>
> Charles
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Joe Monk
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 9:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Preparing for a short z/OS contract
>
> you will not have any problems. MVS is MVS.
>
> Joe
>
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 11:31 AM Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > A client from my contracting days has contacted me out of the blue.
> Perhaps
> > only a week, but work is work, right? :-)
> >
> > Does anyone have advice they can offer on what to expect these days?
> >
> > When I last worked for them, it was ESA/390, ISPF :-)
> >
> > Does a lot of PL/1, Assembler and Rexx programming work still get done in
> > ISPF, or is it mostly at a *nix terminal?
> >
> > I'm comfortable in Linux, for example, but I've not even seen z/OS
> running,
> > so I'm unsure about what to expect.
>
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