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AS400 and Mainframes

Post by ML#1 » Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:00 pm

Hi,

I was working in an AS400 assignment for about 3 years and now i am into a Mainframe project..i have very limited knowledge on mainframes and have just started learning the technology.
I would like to know the similarities and differences between as400 and mainframes. I think this would help me understand mainframes quickly.I am not more concerned about the architecture of the systems but only on the application development.
Can someone please guide.

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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:09 am

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Post by Natarajan » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:53 pm

My .2 cents on this.

We have similar programming structure on both AS/400 and Mainframes.

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 AS/400           Mainframes
 CL/400           JCL
 COBOL/400    COBOL
  DB2/400       DB2

Only place you may need to focus for learning is JCL on mainframe.
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Post by MrSpock » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:06 pm

I was thinking the same thing. From a development point-of-view, wouldn't the core disciplines be about the same regardless of actual hardware and OS used?

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