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> The issue I still have with the Mainframe is documentation. Unlike most programming questions a google search does not turn up Stackoverflow results. I find I spend a lot of time going through random forums or reading the IBM doc. I don't find IBM doc easy to understand, but the more I have to deal with it the easier it gets.

You're not alone my friend, those IBM docs certainly are not easy to read/understand.

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> You're not alone my friend, those IBM docs certainly are not easy to read/understand.

Just as for Unix, Linux, Windows, and so on, there's an IBM "culture" (terminology, conventions, etc.) that you have to get used to. (It often helps to know some of its history, too.) But since I grew up professionally with one foot in the IBM world I usually don't have much trouble at all reading their docs.

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