Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi Working as a consultant. Been in the MVS/zOS/mainframe business basically all of my professional life, since the late eighties. I have been working with products and tools such as DB2, TWS (OPC/A), some SMP/E and way back a product called Info/Man (anyone remember that one?). Also REXX, ISPF and JCL, of course. This has mostly been on the mainframe but also on DB2 and some SAP/R3 on the AIX platform for a breif period. Currently on an assignment working on DBB and IDz, sometimes more unix (both through SSH and USS/OMVS) than mainframe. I use Linux at my home computers and getting into things like Groovy, Java, shell and Perl right now.

Hello and welcome to the Forums zRik,

I happened to work with Info/Man back in 2005. I liked it but then that was the only shop I saw it. Never heard about it later. Do they provide a sandbox for 'DBB' "to practice" - it looks interesting.

Cool! Not that often you come across someone who even knows about that product.
They do not provide a sandbox where you can "practice" the whole set-up, no. There are quite a number of things that need to be installed and configured in order to get a dev-ops pipeline running, including non-IBM products.

i remember it from the 90ties ...

it was the companion product of info/sys

the info/sys database provided by ibm was the only way for the customer to research problem reports, apars, ptfs