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MVS Utilities: An almost real-world example

MVS Utilities: An almost real-world example

I have been working on the open source MVSCommand and MVSUtils for awhile now (also available in pax format for those that just want to use the tools). But, it can be hard to understand without an example, so when I was looking at the Master the Mainframe contest the other day, I had some inspiration.

What is Master the Mainframe? IBM created Master the Mainframeseveral years ago as a contest…

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Keeping application and system stuff separate on z/OS

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I have been using zD&T for a few years now and love it. zD&T is software from IBM that provides a full z/OS system running on your favourite Linux x86 system. It has a z Instruction Set Architecture (zISA) emulator in it, z/OS, middleware, and tools bundled together to let you run your own generic z/OS system.

But… one thing the generic z/OS system…

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Pretending to be a Systems Administrator

I’ve been working on mainframes for a long time. But only in the last few years have I had access to a system that I could do systems administration on. Standard z/OS systems are locked down tight – and for good reason. They run important applications and knuckleheads are not allowed to play around with the system.

I now have my own z/OS system. I have a few actually. They are cheap because they…

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Working with MVS datasets from USS

A little while back, I talked about mvscmd, which lets me run MVS programs from the z/OS USS environment (the UNIX shell).

I’ve since written a few utilities that make it easier to work with datasets for basic day to day operations. These scripts are all rather primitive, but I wanted to share them – it’s just ‘a small matter of coding’ to provide more robust scripts that are a little more…