Dear Folks,
I was just reviewing an article I wrote in 1988 (a long time ago)
that encapsulates and summarizes my original efforts to learn SMP/E.
Many of us systems programmers don't have a chance to do system
maintenance, leaving it to "the designated person (or people)". And
also, when breaking in a new person, that person is often given the job
of doing the SMP/E system maintenance. In my experience, the first
exposure to SMP/E is a daunting task. And it is even somewhat
forbidding (to learn SMP/E) for very experienced systems programmers
also, who (somehow) never ever got exposed to it, in their own LONG
experience.
My personal feeling (in 1988, after five years as a sysprog) was
that, with the PROPER TEACHING, I could have learned, in 3 weeks, what
took me 4 years to learn.
I didn't want that to happen to anybody else.
So I wrote an article. Very carefully.
I just read it over, today. That's why I'm writing this piece.
IF ANYBODY FEELS THE NEED TO LEARN SMP/E, PLEASE GO TO FILE 014 OF
THE CBT TAPE (www.cbttape.org), and READ THE MEMBER, SMPARTCL.
Part of the problem in learning SMP/E, is that IBM does not tell
you about its history, and where it came from. In order to really
understand SMP/E, you first must have a grasp of doing a SYSGEN, to
create a new MVS system. We don't do SYSGENs anymore, so this makes it
hard to understand the foundation and structure and purpose and method
of operation, of SMP/E.
Nevertheless, in that article, I tried to recreate the history, the
best I could.
BOTTOM LINE. If you want to train someone, or yourself, to do
SMP/E, please first read this article - CBT File 014 - member SMPARTCL.
It is almost guaranteed to make the process simpler.
Hope this helps.........
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely, Sam
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