z-OS

Books, education, technical reports, freeware and links of interest to those who support z/OS.

The next IBM z/OS and OS/390 annual technical conference. Focusing first and foremost on performance issues, 4.5 days.

Provides z/OS-based mainframe application concepts, techniques and examples, with special emphasis on integration with the Internet. Hosted by a California consulting firm.

On August 9, 1972, D.A. Jardine wrote this humorous obituary for Operating System/360 (OS/360), the original ancestor of z/OS.

Both links and original material covering common programming problems in the z/OS environment. By Canadian Bill Lalonde.

Annual security conference intended for organizations using RACF, but covering non-mainframe-specific topics, such as smart cards and digital certificates.

Cheryl Watson specializes in z/OS tuning. This site offers access to some of her free reports and details on how to acquire her chargeable materials, including her Tuning Newsletter, CPU chart, classes on video, and BoxScore and GoalTender software.

The NCSU Administrative Computing Services mainframe overview, with detailed ISPF, IOF and ftp usage instructions.

Includes step-by-step instructions to create and compile COBOL and FORTRAN programs on the z/OS mainframe.

Detailed usage information for z/OS JCL, TSO, ISPF and z/OS Abend codes.

Help Boards provide question and answer discussion threads on z/OS application programming, databases, utilities, JCL, Middleware including CICS, IMS, TSO, ISPF, data management and problem determination. There are also links to IBM manuals.

A Web site that looks at operating systems, takes a look at MVS, now officially known as z/OS.

Leonard Woren's favourite z/OS software and links.

On-line newsletter of technical articles related to TSO and ISPF, with lots of REXX-related information. Includes some articles on the company's (Chicago-Soft) mainframe software products.

Student guides for TSO (ISPF), CICS, MVS QuickRef, AbendAid, local JCL standards and a small glossary.

StorageTek's policy statement detailing their products' support for IBM mainframes and their operating systems.

Performance tips for PeopleSoft running on z/OS DB2. From consulting firm DataBase Consulting Services (DBCS).

Favourite links of a man with a passion for MVS (now z/OS), including many to original material on his own OS/390-MVS Cyber Mall site.

Explains how to use VSAM in TSO, ISPF and REXX. Part of Gilbert Saint-Flour's mainframe Web site.

Instruction manuals, Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) and News for students and other users of the mostly-mainframe University of Florida (UF)Computing and Networking Services (CNS).

Details on how to write a program for operating systems other than z/OS that will read a z/OS Partitioned DataSet (PDS, also known as a Library) that been sent with TSO's TRANSMIT (XMIT) command.

As well as a description of the MVS Project, under which all z/OS activities of the SHARE user group are organized, there are also useful Web links.

Short article with many embedded links describing Operating System/360 (OS/360), the original ancestor of z/OS that was written as the operating system for high-end System/360 computers in the early 1960s.

An IBM Systems Journal article describing how the z/OS development team tested the operating system. Discusses verification methodologies, and test technologies and techniques.

The IBM common run-time environment for popular programming languages.

IBM's performance measurement and management software.

IBM software to view and control the JES2 queues, running batch jobs, started tasks, and on-line TSO users.

IBM home page for Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) security software. Introduction with links to a technical overview, news, downloads, user groups, past and future presentations, migration, library, FAQs and education.

Originally the Hierarchical Storage Manager (hsm), now "a functional component of DFSMS that provides facilities for managing storage devices" (IBM).

The software used to install and maintain z/OS software from IBM and many other software companies.

Announcement, general availability, marketing withdrawal and end of support dates and program numbers for z/OS, OS/390 and MVS/ESA.

IBM resources for the full UNIX implementation built into z/OS.

Integrated testing of an older Program Update Tape (PUT) level with hipers and PE's from a more recent PUT level for specified operating system, database and teleprocessing monitor versions.

A specially priced offering of z/OS providing select z/OS function for the zSeries 800.

Web-based wizards for infrequent z/OS Systems Programming tasks.

The storage management components of z/OS, including DFSMSdfp, DFSMSdss, DFSMShsm and DFSMSrmm.

A list of, and links to information on, the Base Elements included in the latest release of the z/OS operating system, and the optional Features.

IBM home page for zSeries/Operating System (z/OS). Information on the latest version with links to an overview, recent announcements, software, migration and installation, news, support, downloads, education, library and ease of use issues. z/OS replaced OS/390 (which replaced MVS) when IBM eserver zSeries 900 (z900) replaced System/390 enterprise servers (mainframes).

Published twice annually by IBM for z/OS Systems Programmers, with one to five page technical articles. Available on-line in PDF format.

On-line access to manuals covering all components of z/OS. Requires no special reader, though it does simulate IBM BookManager.

IBM security features with and products for z/OS.

IBM home page for Database 2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB). Information on associated products and links to features and benefits, system requirements, library, success stories, news, downloads, events, education, services and support. DB2 is a relational database management system (DBMS).

IBM home page for Information Management System (IMS). Information on the family of software with links to a library, success stories, news, events, education, services and support. IMS is a transaction processing system (IMS/TM), a hierarchical database (IMS/DB), data management tools and connectors.

Common technical terminology used to describe concepts within IMS/TM and IMS/DB. From IBM.

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