Enough with the politics - this list is for discussion of mainframe topics On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM willie bunter < [email protected]> wrote:
> "We put them in office and deserve what we are getting in return." How > very true. The not so intelligent voter voted for Trump, knowing that he > is a convicted felon as well as a convicted sex offender. They knew about > Trump 1.0 and the damage that was done from 2017-2020. > Enough is enough. > Elon start up the chainsaw, Let the DOOGE times roll, as promised. > On Friday, April 4, 2025 at 05:50:07 p.m. EDT, Michael Oujesky < > [email protected]> wrote: > > We put them in office and deserve what we are getting in return. > > > At 01:55 PM 4/4/2025, Joel Ewing wrote: > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > >Right! If you think DOGE folks have any concept > >of acceptable change management practices, or > >that they care about what they break from > >ignorance or lack of understanding, you haven't been paying attention. > > > >These dodgy guys are convinced they are geniuses > >who can understand and improve the SSA system > >after a few days of study. When you are > >convinced you are "top gun" and can't make > >mistakes, then you see parallel testing as > >redundant. As long as it compiles, just put it > >into production and insist all results must be > >correct. If a few people starve or die > >homeless as a result, that's just acceptable > >collateral damage from incorrect use of the system. > > > >According to Trump's Commerce Secretary, the > >only ones who will be upset about receiving > >incorrect SS payments or late SS payments are > >those who are trying to commit fraud. With the > >quality of people currently in charge, one would > >expect adoption of the approach that worked so > >well in the UK for almost three decades with > >their postmaster accounting system: insist the > >computer results are accurate, deny that > >problems are being reported, and imprison or > >fine the complainers for misappropriation of funds. > > > > JC Ewing > > > >On 4/4/25 12:25 PM, Michael Watkins wrote: > >>'I can see the problems occurring when they run > >>both systems in parallel for 6 months...' > >> > >>Why assume they will run both systems in parallel for 6 months? > >> > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > >><[email protected]> On Behalf Of Colin Paice > >>Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 12:15 PM > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social > >>Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? Computerworld > >> > >>CAUTION: This email originated from outside of > >>the Texas Comptroller's email system. > >>DO NOT click links or open attachments unless > >>you expect them from the sender and know the content is safe. > >> > >>They may be able to automate changing the code > >>to a fancier language - that's the "easy bit" > >> > >>I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel > for > >>6 months, and try to find the cause of the two > >>systems giving different results - this is the hard bit. > >>I remember having problems when we changed the version of the compiler... > >>it exposed a timing window - and this was on the same code base! > >>This situation is when you need tracing etc in > >>the programs, which you will not from the automatic conversion. > >>Colin > >> > >>On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 at 18:03, Mark Regan < > >>[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>>This might wrap for some of you. > >>> > >>> > >>>https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. > >>>computerworld.com%2Farticle%2F3953741%2Fdoge-wants-to-modernize-social > >>>-securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html&data=05%7C02% > >>>7Cmichael.watkins%40CPA.TEXAS.GOV%7C118691511d17473e764908dd739c5d3d%7 > >>>C2055feba299d4d0daa5a73b8b42fef08%7C0%7C0%7C638793837587325501%7CUnkno > >>>wn%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXa > >>>W4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VhPt8pUvSYb > >>>XmxnY54eZbVr8BIOdf6WRSVNbCYEl5qk%3D&reserved=0 > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>> > >>>Mark Regan > >>> > >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > >>>email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive > >>access instructions, send email to > >>[email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > >-- > >Joel C Ewing > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Lionel B. 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