Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:49:37 -0400
Reply-To: Nat Wooding <nathani@VERIZON.NET>
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From: Nat Wooding <nathani@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: SAS on mainframes
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Max
Personally, I do not think that there is anything awkward about working on
mainframes. Can you be a little more specific about what you would be doing.
For example, would you expect to be working primarily with SAS data sets or
would you be reading data from a number of different file types. Did the ad
mention VSAM (a mainframe data storage file type).
Several people mentioned a couple books that deal with JCL but I can say
that my copies were largely untouched for many years.
The real trick would be in having someone available to get you set up with
some sample JCL, to show you how the text editor works and what ever tools
are used for your general work, and how program files are stored. I would
expect you to working well in a couple days as long as you are dealing with
the same types of files on a routine basis.
Also, did they mention words such as TSO and Clist? TSO stands for time
sharing option and is roughly equivalent to working in DOS. A Clist is
somewhat like a DOS batch file.
Nat Wooding
-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
bbser2009
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:38 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: SAS on mainframes
Thank you all for answering my questions. I read all of them and got a rough
feeling: it is awkward working on mainframes. :)
Anyway, I was thinking about taking this job requiring working with SAS on
mainframes, which I barely know anything about.
So I hesitated. Anyway, do you think one can gain working knowledge within
like one week? Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: bbser2009 [mailto:bbser2009@GMAIL.COM]
Sent: October-15-10 2:40 AM
Subject: SAS on mainframes
Hi there,
Could anyone tell me what's the big difference between Windows SAS and
mainframe SAS?
How hard it is if I would like to transfer from Windows to mainframes?
I used DOS systems and then always stay with Windows. I know nothing about
Unix or Linux.
Regards, Max
