I of course meant it as a total compliment.
CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity
-------- Original message --------
From: John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>
Date: 06/12/2015 5:57 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
> @John, you're a hacker, don't let that stop you. Go git 'em! IBM never
> documented the IND$FILE protocol either.
>
I'll take that as a "white hat" and not "black hat" type hacker.
Unfortunately(?), my current boss has managed to really curb my tendency to
do non-GUPI work any more. I guess that I could see about establishing a
WSA session between z/OS and my Windows 7 desktop, and trace the IP packets
using "tcpdump" on my Linux desktop. I might see something "interesting".
>
> Charles
>
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> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 5:27 AM
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> Subject: Re: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
>
> > I have never used it. Others? Is it a "popular" solution?
> >
>
> It ain't nun too popular with this-here Linux user (slipping into Texan
> speak). I wish that IBM would document the protocol so that others could
> use it as a generic(?) interface. But that isn't going to happen. You can't
> make money if you let people out of your silo. IBM, MS, and Apple are all
> very aware of this, and do their best to keep _their_ property (uh,
> customers) from "wandering off". Yea, I'm in a bad mood this morning.
>
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