Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT ----- List .. my apologies.

2011-10-02 Thread Jim Thomas
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 11:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms - OT Hi Jim, No need for apologies, I didn't mind the question at all. If you don't mind

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT

2011-10-02 Thread Jim Thomas
: Saturday, October 01, 2011 11:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms - OT Hi Jim, No need for apologies, I didn't mind the question at all. If you don't mind my asking, where is Dulwich? Thanks, Linda

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT ----- List .. my apologies.

2011-10-02 Thread Aled Hughes
: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms - OT - List .. my apologies. Hello Linda, College rd... close to the Dulwich park and that pub at the entrance hat I do not remember the name of. In all honesty, all I can remember now is taking the #12 (LRT) all

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT

2011-10-02 Thread Scott Ford
Linda,   Its an interesting article. I worked for one of the Top 5 companies in the world for 7+ yrs and also was European based for awhile before I came back to USA and started consulting Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From

Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms

2011-10-01 Thread Linda Mooney
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15124005 Linda -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT

2011-10-01 Thread Jim Thomas
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 6:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15124005 Linda

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT

2011-10-01 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Jim, Not in the UK, never been there.  I do like the BBC website.  Linda - Original Message - From: Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2011 7:53:52 PM Subject: Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT

2011-10-01 Thread Jim Thomas
@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 10:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms - OT Hi Jim, Not in the UK, never been there. I do like the BBC website. Linda - Original Message

Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms ----- OT

2011-10-01 Thread Linda Mooney
: Re: Interesting article today on the BBC website about the top tech firms - OT My apologies Ma'am, In the US but was raised in Dulwich, hence my question.   Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130             (mobile) 636-294-1014                (res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email

Interesting article, with a funny subtitle

2011-03-04 Thread McKown, John
It's not about the mainframe, but usable by mainframers. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/manage-operationalrrequirements-for-production/index.html But the title: quote Manage operational requirements for production. Four steps to ensure that Development and Operations teams

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-17 Thread Howard Brazee
On 16 Sep 2009 14:27:57 -0700, gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) wrote: Ian wrote: Take a moment and participate in the poll: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. Just some quick additions: I'm semi-retired, doing

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Ian
Several media articles came out after the CA Mainframe survey was released. Networkworld put it this way: Still all is by no means rosy in mainframeland. Another recent study raised an ever-increasing issue – retiring mainframers. Several years ago I put poll's to see where we stand with

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Ian wrote: Take a moment and participate in the poll: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. Just some quick additions: I'm semi-retired, doing occasional consulting work or I'm already retired or I'm retired but do

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Ian
Gerhard wrote Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. Just some quick additions: I'm semi-retired, doing occasional consulting work or I'm already retired or I'm retired but do occasional pro bono work or I'm not retiring, but changing careers (perhaps

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:26:12 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: Ian wrote: Take a moment and participate in the poll: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. ... I think the results would be pretty

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: Has anybody tried voting twice? I decided not to since there was only 1 vote in my bucket. (If I'd been more on the ball I'd have noted which the largest bucket and would have tried to add another vote to it - less of a misleading impact that way (unless that's why it

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:44 -0500, Ian pcs...@gmail.com wrote: ... Thanks Gerhard, leaving out an option for retirees was an omission. I've added 2 option. Unfortunately, the really important missing options are Already retired and no longer taking mainframe-related surveys and Dead (And

Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-15 Thread Joel Wolpert
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/mainframe-world/young-mainframers-34096?subtype=Blogs Joel Wolpert Performance and Capacity Planning consultant WEBSITE: www.perfconsultant.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Interesting article on issues migrating off the mainframe

2009-07-15 Thread Ed Gould
MOVING APPS OFF MAINFRAME MAY HAVE UNINTENDED RESULTS http://go.techtarget.com/r/8698904/6570353 Robert Crawford, Contributor Migrating applications off the mainframe may seem like a good idea, with CPU consumption and cost savings benefits. But if the application's data model isn't fully

Interesting Article

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Green
on the H1B Visa program. I know it's not specific to mainframes but all of us are affected by it one way or another. Some even more so... :( http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3367772/68381743/127066/2/ -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Interesting article To kinda make up for my earlier post about Evil Knievel's son (an off topic post

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Thomas Kern
And our 13 OfficeVision instances on one 4381 worked very well and we did not loose any backups of email, documents, user a-disks, or SQL/DS databases. But this is only the latest of 'thin-client' projects that have been tried for at least a dozen years. /Tom Kern On Tue, 27 May 2008 19:23:50

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/28/2008 8:03:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ep. 3270 on the s/370s. For UNIX it was TTYs (ah, the joys of an ASR33! or glass ttys for CRTs.). For the truly advanced UNIX people, it was an X-terminal (Graphics). Hmmm, I remember it as ASYNC vs

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Andy Wood
On Wed, 28 May 2008 07:25:47 +0200, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . 'schleppi' That was a new one for me! However, when I looked for confirmation, Urban Dictionary told me that a schleppi is a dodgy partygoer (???) I did encounter schlepptop though, which has even better ring.

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-28 Thread Barbara Nitz
That was a new one for me! However, when I looked for confirmation, Urban Dictionary told me that a schleppi is a dodgy partygoer (???) I did encounter schlepptop though, which has even better ring. I'm seriously off-topic here, but the word 'schleppen' is actually a German verb meaning to

Interesting article

2008-05-27 Thread Gary Green
To kinda make up for my earlier post about Evil Knievel's son (an off topic post if ever there was one), this article landed in my inbox so I thought I would pass it along. My comment is this, were they not called 3270 terminals way back when. And, since when is this approach completely

Re: Interesting article

2008-05-27 Thread Barbara Nitz
Gary, this installation has been running on 'thin clients' (inaffectionately called 'toasters') for as long as I work here. Plays havoc on IBMs 'new face', as that requires '.exe'-execution priviledges, which the toaster users don't have. All the new and clickable applications that IBM is at

Interesting Article

2008-05-06 Thread Gary Green
about the mainframe and TCO... Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen

Re: Interesting Article

2007-08-20 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
On the mainframe and why it has not died off ... http://www.it-analysis.com/business/content.php?cid=9726 Interesting? IMHO, just another one of those bad management influencers. z/OS and its predecessors have long been a strong (if not the strongest) data base engine around. And they could

Interesting Article

2007-08-19 Thread Gary Green
On the mainframe and why it has not died off ... http://www.it-analysis.com/business/content.php?cid=9726 http://e-mail-servers.com/9bd35947abbab72f68cce8617244fb4cworker.jpg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Interesting Article on COBOL, but not zSeries specific

2006-03-20 Thread McKown, John
From El Reg, entitled COBOL Resartus or Revisiting the re-tailored COBOL universe http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/03/20/cobol_financial_services/ May be good news for EU COBOL programmers especially. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This