Mainframe commands and me

[Claraviolet]

I hate mainframe stuff from the bottom of my heart and now, I can't believe that I have to learn and monitor some jobs and such.....damn it all.
Everyday, I wanna kill myself...for not seeing it before.

Damn it all.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

is it a type of command code?

 

[Claraviolet]

is it a type of command code?

Hmm... It's difficult to explain.
It's kinda well weird. You use = sign before the command and sometimes it acts funny without the sign

 

[Demon_Skeith]

It's programming right? Whats the actual name for it?

 

[Claraviolet]

It's programming right? Whats the actual name for it?

Don't know to be honest.
They just told me what commands to use and how to do some stuff and that's about it. It's hard though. I would rather work on new technologies

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Could you provide a little sample code (like a hello world?) in that language?
You make me curious.

 

[Claraviolet]

Could you provide a little sample code (like a hello world?) in that language?
You make me curious.

Lol it's for scheduling stuff. I am not so sure how to print that stuff.
=Something; something; something
Suspend(2) ...
Sorry i can't give out the something values either.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Looks more like some kind of Spreadsheet syntax?
I use LibreOffice Calc when I'm calculating complex spendings and earnings for the next few months, and for making invoices for my mum's nursing company.
It's very convenient to me, but at least what I do with it really isn't anything complex, as almost everything is just about summing values of cells in a new cell, and the invoice additionally has a few cells where I duplicate the date and invoice number on multiple places.

 

[Claraviolet]

Looks more like some kind of Spreadsheet syntax?
I use LibreOffice Calc when I'm calculating complex spendings and earnings for the next few months, and for making invoices for my mum's nursing company.
It's very convenient to me, but at least what I do with it really isn't anything complex, as almost everything is just about summing values of cells in a new cell, and the invoice additionally has a few cells where I duplicate the date and invoice number on multiple places.

Yup but we don't have any ctrl+z (undo) in mainframes. If you do something then it's final.
I don't like monitoring those stupid jobs all that much...so I am in hell

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

There might be an alternative.
If you're using an OS without a GUI, then it might be there, and it might not be there.
For example, in "nano" and "mcedit" I can do "CTRL + U" to undo things, in Vim that's just "u".
But in general, executing the command "man (APP_NAME_HERE)" will bring up the manual of a given app.

 

[Claraviolet]

Well, as mainframes are old school, they don't have such fancy commands. For me..it's......I would rather work with databases for the rest of life rather than work with them.
I really hope I don't have to work with them for long

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

I believe we have such a mainframe at work too, it's in the server room.
It's being operated by only 1 employee from the network administrator department though.

 

[Claraviolet]

Yup. They are totally old school. I wouldn't want anything to do with them...I really wish I don't have to learn more about them after this project.