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From: rjf2 on 18 Nov 2009 10:29 > From: Nathaniel Wooding > Subject: OT: Friday Humor > > Good luck and do not be intimidated. at least during your first five years ... :-) You will find ISPF an extremely powerful text editor see also: MVS TSO, Part 1: Concepts and ISPF by Doug Lowe 8 chapters, 467 pages, 239 illustrations, http://www.murach.com/books/index.htm http://www.murach.com/books/tso1/index.htm Ron Fehd the ISPF maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
From: Masoud Pajoh on 18 Nov 2009 10:45 I second Ron's comment. I have yet to find an editor to come to par with ISPF. Masoud "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2(a)CDC.GOV> Sent by: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L(a)LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> 11/18/2009 09:36 AM Please respond to "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2(a)CDC.GOV> To SAS-L(a)LISTSERV.UGA.EDU cc Subject Re: SAS on Mainframe > From: Nathaniel Wooding > Subject: OT: Friday Humor > > Good luck and do not be intimidated. at least during your first five years ... :-) You will find ISPF an extremely powerful text editor see also: MVS TSO, Part 1: Concepts and ISPF by Doug Lowe 8 chapters, 467 pages, 239 illustrations, http://www.murach.com/books/index.htm http://www.murach.com/books/tso1/index.htm Ron Fehd the ISPF maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
From: Charles Harbour on 18 Nov 2009 12:05 To add to the most excellent comments so far, I would throw into the mix that you may be reading SAS datasets from tape (if the dataset is large or disk (DASD) space is at a premium)--which means you will need to use the SAS sequential engine. That means that you will not have direct access to your data--if you want to make any changes/updates to the data itself, depending on the complexity of your data manipulation, you may need to read all of the data into a temporary file, do your manipulations and then write it back out to tape. If your dataset is very large, you may have to put your temporary work file on tape as well.... Have a local guru sit down with you, review some of the jobcards associated with your work (so that you have a fundamental understanding of what the various fields mean), and the nature of your accessing those files (are you simply reading the data or updating it, and how that affects your allocation of the files in jcl). File allocation is much more formal on a mainframe.... HTH, CH
From: Philip Rack on 18 Nov 2009 13:19 You can always download the Hercules emulator and play with that! The FAQ is at: http://www.hercules-390.org/hercfaq.html#1.01 and section 3.02 is worth reading. Or, you can try to get a copy of IBM's System Z Personal Development tool. I'm pretty sure you need to be an IBM partner to get that though. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247721.html Philip Rack MineQuest, LLC SAS & WPS Consulting and WPS Reseller Tel: (614) 457-3714 Web: www.MineQuest.com Blog: www.MineQuest.com/WordPress -----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L(a)LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Wu Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:09 PM To: SAS-L(a)LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: SAS on Mainframe Hello SAS_L, In order to use SAS on mainframe, what are the most basic knowledge of z/OS which someone should have? Appreciate if you can recommend some learning material to let mainframe newbie ramp up quickly. Thanks in advance! Kevin
From: OR Stats on 18 Nov 2009 14:02
has anyone figured out yet if we can generate graphical files and outputs in mainframe SAS? On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Kevin Wu <kwu0914(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello SAS_L, > > In order to use SAS on mainframe, what are the most basic knowledge of z/OS > which someone should have? > > Appreciate if you can recommend some learning material to let mainframe > newbie > ramp up quickly. > > Thanks in advance! > > Kevin > |