Will wrote:

> Any advice to a new kid on the block diving into this mainframe stuff?

oh...we've got a live one! :-)  just kidding....

lesson #1 -- mpe systems are not 'mainframes'

> It all seems ass backwards.

it only seems that way...it will pass....and you'll also discover you've
been living in the matrix (almost joking...:-)

in unix-land, you view file structures as a tree...  /dir/subdir/.../file

you can do the same thing with mpe (if you want to):

:listfile ci.pub.sys,6
CI.PUB.SYS
:listfile /SYS/PUB/CI,6
 /SYS/PUB/CI

same file...just viewed differently.  in traditional mpe (and that's
probably the bulk of where you'll be doing your work), files are viewed
from the file's perspective.  hence the file.group.account notation.  it's
all the same....just viewed differently.

practice saying 'poe-tay-toe' and 'poh-tah-toe'....

> I've spent the bulk of my time writing Peoplesoft apps and now I find
> myself working on this mainframe.

ah ah ah -- what do we call it? :-)

> What a change of pace!

and a refreshing one if you ask me :-)

> Any helpful adive to a newby?

we're all here...waiting to help you out....really!  you've literally
tapped into thousands of collective years of experience.  we're nice
folk....really :-)           - d

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