Planet MVS (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the mainframe! PLANET MVS

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S e c t i o n s
·  Macintosh to MVS
·  IPCS

·  "Flower box"-ware
·  MVS Freeware
·  MVS Mail
·  MVS Tips
·  Green Card collection
·  Program Products Pet Peeves
·  UnXMIT information exchange
·  The unofficial IBM-MAIN FAQ
·  Mainframe Humor
·  TN3270 page
·  HLASM FAQ & Tips
·  Links
·  Rexx Anywhere!
·  SPF Editor
·  Dave's Rest In Peace page
·  Dave's Reference Summary
·  Dave's terms
·  Hex page
·  Hopelessly Outdated pages

Planet MVS Go MVS or go home!
Planet MVS E Pluribus MVS!
Planet MVS MVS über alles!
Planet MVS c'est la MVS!
Planet MVS Ich bin ein MVS SYSPROG!
Planet MVS All your MVS are belong to us!
Planet MVS I, for one, welcome our MVS overlords!
Planet MVS MVS is too big to fail!
Planet MVS We Mainframers will not go quietly into the night, IBM will bring forth the new MVS OS/390 z/OS, for General Availability day will be our Independence Day!


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·  z/OS home page
·  search390


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"A visitor from another planet would conclude that the dominant computing technology is COBOL running under CICS."-Bob Rogers (as quoted by Robert Shimizu of Cole Software)

2011-04-09

  • The MVSintosh page was updated:
    • Existing FTP section includes a link to Filezilla (actually also for Linux and Windows)
    • New Terminal (Mac Shell) section
    • New iPad Section - even though it's a Mac page
  • Updated the IPCS FAQ page with a new question on how to run IPCS in batch. Also updated my IPCS WishList page. I ought to see if my company can submit some of these to IBM via SHARE.
  • Removed the version number for Spflite off the SPF Editor page to cut down on the emails about the new version.
  • Removed the outdated links to TN3270 products on the TN3270 page. You'll have to Google that.

ISPF Tips:
  • HX - ISPF editor line command displays hex in a vertical format
    EDIT       IBMUSER.DAVE.TXT(XYZ) - 01.99                           Columns 00001 00080
    Command ===>                                                          Scroll ===> HALF
    ****** ********************************* Top of Data **********************************
    000001 Everything you wanted to know about Hex but were afraid to ask                  
           CA89AA88984A9A4A89A884A94999A4889AA4C8A48AA4A89848898884A948A9444444444444444444
           55598389570864061535403602566012643085702430659501691940360122000000000000000000
    
    Here is an IBM page with more information.

  • HIDE X - ISPF editor primary command. Slick, very slick.

  • SWAPBAR - ISPF primary command. As someone that uses a lot of screens (to the point of getting the dreaded "no more screens" error daily), cudos to IBM for the SWAPBAR command. I need to customize ISPF for more than 8 screens!. I wish the SWAPBAR was in screen number order all the time. On some 3270 emulators, you have to tell them to allow you to click on the SWAPBAR label to jump to that screen.

  • 2010-01-17

    Saw this Top 10 programming fonts. His number one font works great with 3270 terminal emulators.


    2009-06-18 - 2009-06-21

    Finally making my first 2009 updates:

    • My ISP lost my emails so if you sent anything to me this year before 2009-04-22 I can't view them. If you sent me anything after that date I have it.
    • Add new IPCS pages - This will NOT teach you how to shoot dumps. They will only help you if you already know how to use IPCS.
    • Updated Flowerbox page with a contribution that was sent to me via email.
    • Added the Bob Rodgers quote to this page which came from a Cole Software email
    • Changed SPF Editor Page for:



    2008-01-01

    We made it to another year!

    Link: Mainframe Year in review, 2007


    2007-08-27

    Updated the MVSintosh (MVS and Macintosh) page:

    On the MVS Tips page, I corrected some font problems and added a tip: Using symbols for the operating system level.


    2007-01-04

    Happy New Year!

    • Added new ISPF editor called Hybrid Editor XE to the SPF Editor page and a few other changes were made to that page.
    • New Years Resolution: Make more updates to Planet MVS!


    2006-01-01

    Happy New Year!


    2005-06-28

    Added a new page with some of my Badges from Share and other conferences.


    2005-04-30

    Updated the TN3270 page to remove propaganda and update links.

    Created the Hopelessly Outdated web page to document that some web pages here are very very stale as opposed to just being very stale.

    2004-03-28

    Added the SUV (Systems Under View) ISPF application to the ISPF application Freeware page.

    Changed Freeware page to reflect new home of MXI


    2005-01-07

    Created new Macintosh to MVS web page for information on accessing the MVS/OS390/zOS mainframe from the Apple Macintosh


    2004-01-08

    Reworked main web page and site cascading style sheet.


    2004-01-01

    Happy New Year!



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