I'm not a sysprog, but this sounds like it might be an interesting read. Thanks!
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Sam Golob <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11:11 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Learning the basics of SMP/E 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<http://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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
