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Part 2 involved more steps for each task and usually took a day or so to accomplish. The first 60 winners of Part 2 received monetary prizes in recognition of their achievement. Part 3 was more in depth, involving multiple programming challenges such as COBOL, REXX, JCL, etc. (depending on the questions set for the year's challenge). [5]
The first text book published (first printing December 2007) aimed at giving security professionals an introduction to the concepts and conventions of how RACF is designed and administered was Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals: Getting Started with RACF by Ori Pomerantz, Barbara Vander Weele, Mark Nelson, and Tim Hahn. [3]
The first versions of SAS, from SAS 71 to SAS 82, were named after the year in which they were released. [24] In 1971, SAS 71 was published as a limited release. [ 3 ] [ 25 ] It was used only on IBM mainframes and had the main elements of SAS programming, such as the DATA step and the most common procedures, i.e. PROCs. [ 24 ]
The application program interfaces of IBM's mainframe operating systems is defined as a set of assembly language "macro" instructions, that typically invoke Supervisor Call (SVC) [e.g., on z/OS] or Diagnose (DIAG) [on, e.g., z/VM] instructions to invoke operating system routines. It is possible to use operating system services from programs ...
MVS inherited three main types from its predecessors: Sequential data sets were normally read one record at a time from beginning to end. In BDAM (direct access) data sets, the application program had to specify the physical location of the data it wanted to access (usually by specifying the offset from the start of the data set).
In a new interview with IMDb, the Oscar-winning actor opened up about her own similarities to Callas, who became a recluse late in her life after losing the ability to sing due to dermatomyositis ...
The former “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star and father of eight proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Stephanie Lebo, who shared the news on Instagram on Nov. 29.
SAS statements can continue across multiple lines and do not require indenting, although indents can improve readability. [18] Comments are delimited by /* and */. [20] A standard SAS program typically entails the definition of data, the creation of a data set, and the performance of procedures such as analysis on that data set. [18]