Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I hitchhike, and being a programmer, the notes I make while hitchhiking end up in a file that is subsequently processed by a program to produce a truckload of amusing statistics. One of the tables contains the minimum number of rides (M) I needed to be picked up by drivers of N different nationaliti...

I've been trying to find some on-line in the form of images or HTML/CSS files, but to no avail. :( So I scanned some old slips that I had lying around, and used Gimp to create something using the scanned image as template. The attached PNG file shows the results. It's made up of two 300x300 images, ...

Once again Welcome -- so how many languages do you speak/write? I'm fluent in Dutch and English, reading and speaking German is not a problem (as long as you're willing to ignore the der/den/dem/die articles), for writing I would need a good spelling and grammar checker, I speak some French, and ca...

From the ISPF Edit and Edit Macros manual in the ISPF bookshelf: 1.2.1.4 Locking an edit profile Once you have an edit profile exactly the way you want it, you can lock it. To do this, type PROFILE LOCK and press Enter. The edit profile is saved with all the current modes, options, and temporary li...

MARGINS The MARGINS option specifies which part of each compiler input record contains PL/I statements, and the position of the ANS control character that formats the listing, if the SOURCE and/or INSOURCE options apply. The compiler does not process data that is outside these limits, but it does i...

Robert Prins, aka prino, the name given to him by a chemistry teacher who could not read his own handwriting, way back in 1974(?), is a currently unemployed z/OS analyst-programmer, who's been working with mainframes since September 1985. He's Dutch, lived and worked in the UK for 16 years, and move...

I'm from Europe, countries don't mean much to me any more, I'm Dutch, lived and worked in the UK, Ireland and now in Belgium.

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