Thanks Sam! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma AVP | Director, Technology Engineering
Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616.653.8429 | fax: 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sam Golob Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 1:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Learning the basics of SMP/E **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** 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 (https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=3e1c3ff8-61870700-3e1c1560-0cc47a33347c-5dd923bfd7f64b63&q=1&e=abfca06c-81fb-4463-9f31-e90f4b69df4c&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbttape.org%2F), 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
