The techSupport magazine belonging to NaSPA has some especially good articles.
Celia Redmore
I run a mainframe info site http://www.sysprog.net
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If anyone's really interested in learning about modern mainframes, I run a general interest site about mainframes. You're very welcome to visit: http://www.sysprog.net.
And for anyone who complains that all mainframers are boring old greybeards (not me), try http://www.sysprog.net/quotes.html.
To clear up some serious confusion, mainframes are the very large business systems IBM , Hitachi and Fujitsu make. IBM calls its mainframes the zSeries (z800 for Linux and z900 for z/OS). The AS400 is a midsize computer, not a mainframe. A mainframe is to a PC as a race car is to a bicycle. Anyone still need to ask why some of us love working on them?
Please don't be put off by people who think that mainframe programmers all work in COBOL on green screens in CAPITALS. That hasn't been true for decades. I program in C and Java and use XML and so on. The difference is that mainframes are much more complicated systems than workstations. Call it a challenge, if you like.
I learned Latin at school just because all college-bound British school kids did. But I also know several European languages pretty well. Those have been far more use to me than Latin.
If all you want is to learn a romance language, take French or even Italian (the modern Latin) instead. There are plenty of good modern books (and websites) in those languages and you can use the spoken language as well as the written. I had a teacher who insisted that Latin had been a spoken language and we held conversations in class using it. I'd have hated to learn it just as a dead syntax.
I once read that the major that predicted the highest earning power was Latin. It turned out that only rich kids could afford to major in such a 'useless' subject.
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All the IBM manuals are online. There's a list of most-used manuals and other mainframe literature at
http://www.sysprog.net/manuals.html
and organisations at
http://www.sysprog.net/orgs.html.
The techSupport magazine belonging to NaSPA has some especially good articles.
Celia Redmore
If anyone's really interested in learning about modern mainframes, I run a general interest site about mainframes. You're very welcome to visit: http://www.sysprog.net .
.
And for anyone who complains that all mainframers are boring old greybeards (not me), try http://www.sysprog.net/quotes.html
To clear up some serious confusion, mainframes are the very large business systems IBM , Hitachi and Fujitsu make. IBM calls its mainframes the zSeries (z800 for Linux and z900 for z/OS). The AS400 is a midsize computer, not a mainframe. A mainframe is to a PC as a race car is to a bicycle. Anyone still need to ask why some of us love working on them?
Please don't be put off by people who think that mainframe programmers all work in COBOL on green screens in CAPITALS. That hasn't been true for decades. I program in C and Java and use XML and so on. The difference is that mainframes are much more complicated systems than workstations. Call it a challenge, if you like.
Celia Redmore
I learned Latin at school just because all college-bound British school kids did. But I also know several European languages pretty well. Those have been far more use to me than Latin.
If all you want is to learn a romance language, take French or even Italian (the modern Latin) instead. There are plenty of good modern books (and websites) in those languages and you can use the spoken language as well as the written. I had a teacher who insisted that Latin had been a spoken language and we held conversations in class using it. I'd have hated to learn it just as a dead syntax.
I once read that the major that predicted the highest earning power was Latin. It turned out that only rich kids could afford to major in such a 'useless' subject.
http://www.sysprog.net