Just to be complete I thought I’d mention another freely available 3270 terminal emulator on Linux. I briefly tried the c3270, 3270 terminal emulator, it is easy to increase/decrease the font size simply by pressing <Ctrl>+ or – respectively. The thing that wasn’t readily clear to me was how to use special keys such as …
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Master the Mainframe Pause
I thought it might be a good time to take a little pause and concentrate on learning the ISPF editor better. You know basic things like find!
x3270 Terminal Emulator fonts
I really needed larger fonts for the Master the Mainframe course. I used the default x3270 many times using the Hercules emulator but for some reason the smaller font really bothered me in this course. Watched “Setting up x3270 on Linux”, a YouTube video where a guy installed with apt then easily changed the font …
NASA’s ‘worm’ logo is back. But why did it disappear?
Interesting story. Not directly computer related, but NASA sure has been a huge and early user of computers. Don’t know why they would ever change the old logo from the 70s. IMHO…it was awesome!
Stupid time killer misteak
While working on the Master the Mainframe course, I keep making the same stupid copy & paste mistake that has lengthened my task completion time considerably! I copy the command I need for example…dslist ‘z#####.p2.output’I know I’m supposed to replace the above z##### with my IDSo I double click my Id Z12345 and copy it …
My biggest stumbling block…Twisty!
I previously mentioned that my biggest stumbling block when beginning the Master the Mainframe course was It really wasn’t obvious to me that the little triangle symbols on a page would expand that section. So I decided to look back to see if that information was provided…I found Expand twisty for any specific instruction details …
The first Master the Mainframe quiz
I missed 1 question out of 11. I answered C but the answer was c! Caps lock was on : (
Master the Mainframe
Joined the Slack and User Group. I actually started my education back when mainframes were perceived as important, but that was long ago. This should bring me up to speed, at least enough to talk about it, on current IBM technologies specifically the mainframe and z/OS. As I said, as far as I can tell …