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Re: IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make the mainframe easier to use

I have long forgot my MVS commands but I was
thinking what working with spool files used to
be like ???

JES2 subsystems as I recall..

That was a LONG time ago.

Yep... the big boxes with 3-5 thousand signed on
users ??? wrkusrjob takes on a whole new meaning.

Tom Liotta wrote:
I mostly agree. i5/OS doesn't quite have the UI tools to manage mainframe-class operations, as well as being short in a few deeper technical areas necessary. Much of the UI is designed with "midrange" firmly in mind.
WRKACTJOB when there are 20000+ jobs running, for example, is fun; just a bit of scrolling. Though there are certainly Series i systems that encroach mainframe space, they can be a challenge to manage using native tools. And at the real upper levels of the mainframe class...? I doubt anyone would want to try (for very long). 

Tom Liotta

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