Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes
Although mainframes and their usage were supposed to fade away in today's world, the reality is that a large number of enterprises still rely on them to process huge amounts of data. This means that they are going to stick around for even longer with the existence of low-cost cloud technologies. In particular, Nmap initially lacked the support to identify and scan mainframes properly. However, thanks to a lot of work from Soldier of FORTRAN (https://github.com/mainframed), this is no longer the case.
This chapter will introduce you to the libraries and scripts that are available when working with IBM mainframes, specifically, the z/OS operating system. IBM's flagship operating system is designed for large volume ...
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