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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
