Restless night, so up at 3:30AM and finally found my Mainframe DVD that I had been looking for but wasn’t looking for it at that hour, which also had my COBOL, ASSEMBLER, REXX and JCL job streams and importantly, my mainframe Log file. It was really nice to see that Log file.
/home/bill/MyStuff/Mainframe (BankAtlantic)/Vollie/whb/Log.txt
It confirmed that I really was a Systems Programmer : ) I didn’t remember doing half of the stuff I had in that Log file. It also mentions that I installed Linux in network room on 2/26/1998. Among other things I installed MRTG (The Multi Router Traffic Grapher) on Linux to create nice graphs for our CISCO routers in branch offices that I was responsible for. Evidently I did more work on the AS/400 than I remembered. This company used VOLLIE on VSE for development which is what I used when I started there. I also used Voice procs that I forgot using, to automate tasks in VOLLIE. But in a short time I moved my development to VM using REXX to automate tasks. This had the benefit of not depending on CICS to be up to use VOLLIE to edit and submit jobs.
Today I’m more comfortable using MVS in Hercules emulation than VSE and VM. Mostly because MVS didn’t take as much work as VM/DOS to actually do something useful. It was more useful as they say…out of the box.