“Can you IPL the system before the batch window starts? Make sure the PARMLIB updates are in, or RACF will block access again. And watch the ZEBRA logs—if they spike, we’ll have to rerun the FDRs.”
For someone new to mainframes, a sentence like that can feel like stepping into a conversation that’s already halfway over. It’s easy to get lost. But for those who’ve been working on these systems for years, this kind of exchange is natural—second nature, even. Words like IPL,…