Stream: Large Systems
Time: 13:00 - 13:45
| IBM delivers a "treasure trove" of undocumented commands free to use by all z/OS V2R5 and 3.1 clients. Familiarity with these features can provide significant productivity gains to serious bug hunters and even part-time casual dump readers can benefit from the high-level functions that provide otherwise-hard-to-find problem overview information. These undocumented commands are not supported, so if and when they don't work, we won't expect IBM to fix them. But when they do work (which is almost all the time), they provide invaluable information and insight that can help z/OS problem diagnosticians shave off hours dump diagnosis time. William Penn said, "Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man." Come to this session and leave a little richer and wiser. |
Ed Jaffe began his software development career writing applications for government and research organizations in Washington, D.C. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, he transitioned to the banking industry and eventually took a software development position with Phoenix Software International in 1987. He became Manager of Research & Development in the mid-1990s and was named Chief Technology Officer in 2009. Ed is co-Manager of the MVS Program at SHARE, an active participant in numerous mainframe-related social media sites and IBM's System z Partnerworld for Developers program, and is recognized throughout the mainframe community as a subject matter expert and strong advocate for the z Systems platform with an emphasis on z/OS.
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