Just yesterday I wrote some Assembler code to improve a system function. It's always fun to get some Assembler statements to work. I know, high level languages, such as Java, C, PL/I and COBOL, are much more productive. But sometimes, if your code is very close to the hardware and if you want to use new instructions, Assembler is the best language to get things done. We do not have the z/VSE compilers, that support the usage for some system interfaces and you can't use high level languages for Supervisor implementations, except an... [More]

Today it's raining all day. Therefore some recommendations for reading: The June / July 2014 issue of the Enterprise Tech Journal (ETJ) was just published. It also contains an z/VSE article from one of my colleagues. It's title is "Monitoring Your z/VSE System With SNMP". The link to the article is here . The new ETJ issue has many more articles - all around the mainframe. More information is here (articles, the journal, etc.). ... and more to read: I posted information about the " IBM Mainframe Weekly " newsletter... [More]

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Today we celebrate 50 years mainframe - and a new z/VSE release ! z/VSE 5.2 is announced today. This new release will be available April 25, 2014. You may use Fast Service Upgrade (FSU) from z/VSE 4.3 and z/VSE 5.1 to z/VSE 5.2. In this blog entry I am describing a high level overview of the the functional content of z/VSE 5.2. More details will follow the next days on my blog. z/VSE 5.2 content: Hardware exploitation: Processor support: z/VSE 5.2 supports z9 processors or higher zEC12 and zBC12 support with the latest crypto and network cards... [More]

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