Misc Mainframe links

"It's 106 milliseconds to Chicago via NJE,
we've got a full proclib, half SPOOL utilization,
it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Submit it."
--Elwood Blues (if he were a mainframer)

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The Rock Painter's Mainframe, Midrange, & Micro Computers, plus Technical Articles
Thierry FALISSARD's OS/390-MVS Cyber Mall has a bunch of good MVS links and some discussions like MVS Systems Programmers... A Dying Breed?.
Eric Loriaux's System/390 home page has just about a link to everything MVS.
Mainframes.com has MANY web pages for Systems Programmers.
Register For Cheryl's List (an emailed newsletter with OS/390 information) at Cheryl Watson - Watson & Walker, Inc. She also has a some articles online there that you may find interesting.
Timothy Sipples' Mainframe Blog - [2005-08-04]
AMS offers automated conversion of IBM Mainframe applications
Charles Stansell's The CICS and MQSeries Programmer's Homepage
DB2USA : DB2 by a Frenchman in the United States
Arnold Trembley's STL Time Machine Reports
Button Man - emerges from a murky SHARE and Guide past.
All the way from "Down under" comes Mycroft Systems In-Flight Magazine
Johan van Arendonk's The mainframe lives To fully enjoy this site, you should speak Dutch!
Ping o' Death Page! How to crash your operating system!
It's good to see MVS listed under the safe operating systems!
Washington Systems Consulting has a newsletter called TIMES (Technical and Information Management Exchange Series) - - OS/390 (MVS) technical information.
MVSHELP.COM for Mainframe Programmers
David Elder-Vass's MVS Systems Programming - Rev up your MVS skills!
Sam Knutson's IBM Mainframe web page
Mike Murach & Associates, Inc - Books for mainframe programmers
Tony Fitzgerald's Legacy Systems Worth Noting
Ian Earl Gorman's IBM Mainframe (P/390) web page. Also check out his Tools and Info page which includes some OpenMVS/OpenEdition/Unix_System_Services ports links.
Alex Berggren's Who Am I web page - No technical information. Just a another (fellow) systems programmer. I like his Sandra Bullock picture near the bottom of the page.
Jack J. Woehr's VM/ESA, OS/390, and S/390 Resources on the Net
Adventure games on the IBM 370 (a history)
Atari's S/370
Multi-Vendor Mainframe hardware information from Technology News
Links to the VSE Universe and Beyond!
Is It Time to Flex a Geoplex? from the Amdahl Research Journal, November 1998
Gabe Gargiulo's Mainframe page has many links, book recommendations and Free Minibooks on Mainframe Topics!.
Francois LE MANER's OS/390 page has [ Notes on OS/390 2.7 installation || News from our dino || Latest events on our mainframe || Our MVS organization Architecture of our MVS system ] and more
The E Street Journal - Task Automation tips from Mainframe to the desktop
Philippe Richard's WLM page
Schunk and Associates, Inc. - Presentations: [Tuning OS/390 // WLM CICS & IMS // Getting started: IPCS; SMP/E; PARMLIB; // and more ]
Ron Mascarenhas' OS/390, z/OS MVS, CICS, TCP/IP, Webmaster, Useful Links page.
Steve Neeland's RACF jobs page - various jobstreams that use SYNCTOOL (Syncsort's utility that allows you to produce reports using the DFSORT ICETOOL syntax).
S/390 news from ISHAM Research
Cathcart's Corner
IBM Rexx MVS downloads
[2002-02-11] - Jim Keohane's Tips for TechTarget & Search390
[2002-02-15] - Mainframe Week magazine
[2002-02-24] - Bob DuCharme's book Operating Systems Handbook formerly published by McGraw-Hill is now on the web. It includes a 91 page chapter on MVS that Bob says would be good for those new to MVS.

Bob's latest book is XSLT Quickly

Magazine articles

Enterprise Systems Journal
NaSPA puts out the Technical Support magazine.
DB2 Magazine online - Articles on DB2!
Overview of the SNA protocol from Cisco
Why Mainframes rarely crash - a article in Byte magazine from their April 1998 issue.
Can mainframers and Unix die hards get along?

Vendor White Papers

...carrying signs Mostly say, hooray for our side...Buffalo Springfield

Schadenfreude Links

If you are German-impaired, Schadenfreude means "pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others". Okay maybe you don't have to take pleasure in it but here are some Mainframe User Experiences pages:

WLM User experiences
S8243: COBOL/LE conversion User Experience - SHARE Technical Conference, August 26, 1999
Francois LE MANER's Notes on OS/390 2.7 installation
My user experiences

Also check out the IBM Main FAQ for information about joining this mailing list which has sysprogs sharing their experiences with IBM mainframes.