Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

[Aled Hughes]

 Hey Listers
Thank you for that Cheryl. It is indeed a worrying time when this happens. 

One of the best methods to get some attention in my view is to use the 
endeavors of Timothy Sipples. He seems to have the ear of anyone and everyone 
that matters! He has been extremely helpful to me in getting attention from 
"the right people" in the past.
I've also found that my fellow Welshman (adopted American!) Mark Anzani was 
also very helpful (perhaps I'm a little biased there!).
Best regards
Aled L Hughes


 
 
-Original Message-
From: Cheryl Watson 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wed, 6 May 2020 17:38
Subject: IBM Developerworks is gone!

Hi all,

Remember when IBM went through and deleted from their websites what they 
considered "old" manuals and documentation? Well, they just did it again! 
They've removed all the DeveloperWorks articles that have provided such 
excellent information since its creation. And these aren't just OLD articles. 
Even a link from three months ago is gone. All references to DeveloperWorks are 
now directed to a nothing site. The DeveloperWorks website contained amazing 
articles from some of the top developers in their fields, many of whom are no 
longer still working at IBM. We understand that IBM "furloughed" them, but they 
don't have to furlough their ideas.

I'm pleading with all of you who work for a large IBM customer to ask your 
management to tell IBM to stop this idiotic practice. There is NO reason to 
delete valuable information.

If this is due to marketing wanting a new image, then they have no idea what 
image they're creating.

Please do this for all of us!

All my best,

Cheryl Watson
Watson & Walker, Inc.

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Re: Gerhard Postpischil ז״ל

[Aled Hughes]

My sympathies and condolences to you and to Gerhard's family. He was a stalwart 
of IBM-MAIN, and will be sorely missed by all. 

Best regards
Aled L Hughes
 
 
 
-Original Message-
From: Seymour J Metz 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 4:01
Subject: Gerhard Postpischil ז״ל

It is with deep regret that I announce the death of my friend and colleague 
Gerhard Postpischil, whom some of you may know from here, CBTTAPE.ORG or 
Hercules. Someone told his son Eric "You sound like your father." - I can think 
of no greater compliment. Gerhard was a stickler for accuracy and always strove 
to write 
tight code. He was also a good friend to me and my children, and we will miss 
him.



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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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Re: Mainframes testing

[Aled Hughes]

 You and me both Lennie 

"Abby is a seasoned marketing and public relations professional."
Reminds me that a journalist called Ruth Sunderland was on the radio the other 
day stating that the airline British Airways (after a failure) "is riddled with 
old systems that have been in place for many years and have become creaky and 
inefficient. Replacing them without major disruptions is a Herculean job." She 
even stated that 'mainframes' were to blame for the 2018 TSB fiasco. 

As someone recently said, "We have a dearth of experts commenting on the 
mainframe world, without knowing anything about mainframes."
ALH






 
 
-Original Message-
From: Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:29
Subject: Re: Mainframes testing

Filip,

The IBM paper reads as if it has been written by someone with relatively little 
System z knowledge.

" There can also be security flaws created during the
set-up of permissions for libraries. Libraries are modules for
coding. They call into the code and should only be accessed
by people who have the highest level of permission."

I am not even sure what the above means.

Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd  
Web:  www.rsmpartners.com
‘Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.’

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Filip Palian
Sent: 13 August 2019 02:17
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Mainframes testing

Hey List,

This can be of interest to some:

- 
https://securityintelligence.com/posts/top-five-security-focus-areas-for-mainframes/
- https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/A9NKZ8WE

Any thoughts/comments?


Thanks,
Filip

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Re: Disquieting comment in a Wall Street Journal article.

[Aled Hughes]

 Thanks for sharing that Clark.  It is disturbing in some ways that an ex IBMer 
appears tobe running down mainframes. As Timothy Sipples mentioned, he based 
his theoryon an article in the Economist - a left-wing journal in the UK, and 
I'm afraid that I doubt if any of their journalists understand mainframes at 
all. But he wasright that bank branches are closing - in the UK, nearly 3,000 
in the lastthree years, and about 60 branches a month are closing this year. We 
canunderstand the banks' reasoning - some branches had about two customers a 
day!Of course there are social implications, and as Bill Johnson mentioned, in 
theUS and in the UK a few new banks are opening. Here in the UK, Post Offices 
are now actually doing everyday banking for most people. Perhaps something the 
USPS should think about? 

Timothy's final comment is very relevant and correct, Irving should have chosen 
his words more carefully. 

Keep the flag flying for the mainframe! 

A L Hughes
 
 
-Original Message-
From: Clark F. Morris 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 21:40
Subject: Disquieting comment in a Wall Street Journal article.

An opinion piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a contributor to the Wall
Street Journal's CIO Journal has the following paragraph.

"The shake-up of banking should be great for customers, according to
the Economist. “The benefits of technological change are likely to be
vast. Costs should tumble as branches are shut, creaking mainframe
systems retired and bureaucracy culled.”

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a visiting lecturer at MIT which has the
following brief biography.  "After a 37-year career with IBM,
Wladawsky-Berger retired from the company in May of 2007. At IBM, his
primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He was
responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace
developments critical to the future of the IT industry and for
organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order to
capitalize on them. Wladawsky-Berger led a number of IBM’s companywide
initiatives, including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing,
Linux, and Grid computing. He continues to consult for IBM on major
new market strategies like Cloud Computing and Smart Planet. In March
of 2008, Wladawsky-Berger joined Citigroup as a strategic advisor,
helping with innovation and technology initiatives across the company.
He is helping to formulate Citigroup initiatives related to the future
of global banking, including mobile banking, Internet-based financial
services, and financial systems modeling and analysis."  

Given his background it is troubling for those of us who support the z
series.  

The following URL is for the article.
https://emailshare.cmail19.com/t/n/d-l-25bb70929cfa11e9a60d64415353e21b-l-d-r-l/

Clark Morris

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Re: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time | Inc.com

[Aled Hughes]

I agree. I worked in an open plan office for years in the US, and it was a 
regal pain trying to speak another language with a prospect while hearing other 
people speaking English in the background. The worst offenders were the ones 
who insisted on using speaker-phones! I resorted to starting work at 4 a.m. to 
avoid all the hassle. 
Of course, management were in closed door offices! 
ALH
 
 
 
-Original Message-
From: Seymour J Metz 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 14:02
Subject: Re: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management 
Fad of All Time | Inc.com

You haven't lived until you have to talk to a vendor on the telephone while 
surrounded by other conversations. To be fair, they don't appreciate your 
reading out loud from the dump any more then you enjoy their chatter - which 
might also be with vendor support groups.

Dumbest of all time? I'm not sure. But dumb enough - no question.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3


From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
Mark Regan 
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 9:27 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Fwd: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management 
Fad of All Time | Inc.com

For those of you who find yourselves in this type of working environment.

https://secure-web.cisco.com/1F4O7Jngr9Ip6KIwviFvSVIESyGORRnsgACKq0T9XEdiHfGeJmPbukhwhAS0BInhkpXD2YjG1TFrgfTGHi3F-d96aaH1AJbzjaFoFe0QanBV-Y50uvJ-sH1T2bP3nwrhhFZ8qAsZQuYmoZf8UucIHp0L59_GZQwA5e1PegPVVqX5ybkj5bfykFYzBr1GIyc7JxL8K9J8-vBW2OPaZ0nFB_WIHXaADIahBcNukyLqLrMNNRbkQEXemaT99CFBnI1x25KCiNh5fEuVQCU6xMQ9EYGBTCQAnCPQ7NKsA_3yXInXn1zQvP6BfG6ubix3adrSFH7s9RdOvaBlwsNth6c-KDSMq44E93ezA4UDj-ZJorkIoFJo_4X5dw09LWAXJ96GG9Vpcih23-AJDJP-d5LX2u9q83jr1JhbWWwZvSVTyn_klCi8NwncsKRtu0yi84PYv/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inc.com%2Fgeoffrey-james%2Fits-official-open-plan-offices-are-now-dumbest-management-fad-of-all-time.html

Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
CTO1, USNR-Retired
1969-1991

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Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

[Aled Hughes]

 All the very best Ed, you will be missed on IBM-MAIN.


Aled L Hughes

 

 

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Re: After IT outage, British Airways union blames outsourced IT jobs in India for problem

[Aled Hughes]

According to ‘sources’, they moved to an SAP environment – went off the 
mainframe. I have to wonder why IBM allowed this sort of folly to happen. CEOs 
were encouraged to stay with IBM. And all this happened because of a power 
failure? Methinks they speak with forked tongues!

Sent from my Windows 10 phone

From: Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: 29 May 2017 15:23
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: After IT outage, British Airways union blames outsourced IT jobs 
in India for problem

Phil Smith wrote:

>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/after-it-outage-british-airways-union-blames-outsourced-it-jobs-in-india-for-problem/articleshow/58874334.cms

Here in Sunny South Africa, BA passengers are advised to print out their 
'e-card' and come earlier to avoid problems where possible. or rebook their 
travels.

Ok, what IT system(s) is the BA using? Or, exactly, to the point, what 
system(s)/network(s) was/were offline?

Were they not affected by that WannaCry ransomware?


>Well, that's better than "we lost a power supply and we built our system with 
>an obvious SPOF". Unless they're blaming the SPOF design on the Indians, of 
>course (still fully possible). 

SPOF - "Strange Proof of Folly"  (Yes, I certainly know SPOF is "Single Point 
of Failure". ;-D )


>Not sure "We outsourced and had no grown-up oversight" is an excuse either.

My own opinion: Outsourcing to another company in another land is not a 
grown-up idea... :-(


>Remind me again why outsourcing is such a great idea... (yeah, yeah, I know 
>the reasoning, don't start).

Labour Law? Demanding unions? Tax avoidance? Expensive employees? Medical and 
retirement provisions? Angry/Greedy Shareholders? At least thats some of the 
reasons I'm aware. 

I could use Uncle G. O. Ogle, but I', very lazy and really need to 'outsource' 
my searching...  ;-D

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: More information if you want to file more complaints

[Aled Hughes]

Thanks for your efforts Mark. The address is a Mail Box, and his phone is a 
cell phone.  But as Elardus says, he's well known and has a criminal record. 

People like him give religion a bad name! 

Cheers!

ALH

 

 

 

 Original Message 
From: Mark Post 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Mon, Dec 26, 2016 2:51 am
Subject: More information if you want to file more complaints

If anyone is interested enough, here's some more information you can use to 
file complaints about the mentally ill person spamming the list.

For the lamc.la domain, the registrar is TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd.  
According to their web site, "If you would like to report abuse please email 
ab...@tldregistrarsolutions.com or call us on +1.5167401179 and we will deal 
with your correspondence within 24 hours."

Registrant Name: Adam Marshall Dobrin
Registrant Organization: EXLA Machina
Registrant Street: 9715 W BROWARD BLVD STE 261
Registrant City: Plantation
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Registrant Postal Code: 33324
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For the reallyhim.com domain:
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@godaddy.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505

Admin Name: Adam Dobrin
Admin Organization: The Ministry Of Forbiddem Knowledge
Admin Street: 9715 W Broward Blvd
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Admin City: PLANTATION
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Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.96546678083


For the fromthemachine.org domain:
Sponsoring Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC

Registrant Name: Adam Dobrin
Registrant Organization: Church of EVE
Registrant Street: 9715 W Broward Blvd
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Registrant State/Province: Florida
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Registrant Fax: +1.9546533575

Ooh, a fax number too.

Google's email address to report Gmail abuse is  gmail-ab...@google.com.

The or.shiningbright.online domain is also handled by Google, so it's likely 
that gmail-ab...@google.com would be the proper email address there as well.


Mark Post

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Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

[Aled Hughes]

I think you are right Phil. I recall the P70 purely for PWD customers. This was 
essentially replaced by FLEX (which sold in their hundreds) for PWD and 
Commercial users worldwide. Sadly 'killed off' by IBM after the Platform 
Solutions debacle. 

Cheers!
ALH

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Phil Smith 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:39
Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

Tony Harminc wrote, re  MP3000:
>Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did
>not change its model number when (effectively) converted to an H50 by
>the Linux add-on. There was never a P50 or P70, to my knowledge.

We were doing Linux at Linuxcare (who'd'a thunk), and I think that might be 
what we had: a de facto P70, even though it wasn't "legal". This wasn't 
cheating: it was with IBM's blessing (I think they had to give us a microcode 
fiddle to enable it).

I remember having 3480s as well, and noting that the tape drives were bigger 
than the CPU, which just felt wrong.

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Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

[Aled Hughes]

I'm with Skip here. And while we're at it, why do companies/people still insist 
on putting out these idiotic "legal notices" which seem to hold no relevance in 
law anywhere, or any relevance to anything. 

It's just 'noise'! (And clutters up emails!)

ALH

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Jesse 1 Robinson 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:00
Subject: Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

As a top-poster, I routinely delete all legal notices. Those are someone else's 
problem. I also delete the IBM-Main boiler plate (unless I forget). I do not 
attempt to decide what's relevant and what's not. Again, someone else's 
problem. I also try to reply to the latest post in a thread even though I may 
refer to points made in earlier posts. 

Keeping up with IBM-Main on a timely basis is hard enough without having to 
play data miner and editor as well as compose one's own contribution.

.
.
.
J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler 
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-715-0595 Mobile
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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Pommier, Rex
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 7:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: (External):Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

What makes it even more fun is when some of us top post and others bottom post 
- like I'm doing here.  :-) If I do post something to a chain that has any 
length to it, I try to follow the convention of the chain as well as deleting 
irrelevant information.

Rex


-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Gord Tomlin
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 9:38 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

On 2016-08-19 09:11, David Boyes wrote:
> include ONLY the relevant portion of the note you’re replying to. It focuses 
> your reply on the important part of what you’re trying to say.
>
> We don’t need to see 11 copies of the required disclaimers, etc.

What David said. And BTW, doing so more or less defeats the main alleged 
benefit of bottom-posting (I realize the irony that this reply is 
bottom-posted).

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Tesco Now Sell zFrame

[Aled Hughes]

Tesco is the largest supermarket in the UK, selling virtually everything. Their 
latest addition is the ZFrame. 

http://www.tesco.com/direct/zframe-2x4-wheel-medium-purple-suitcase/419-5437.prd?skuId=419-5437

One of my buddies has already bought one, and I think I'll get one too! 

I wonder if IBM will have something to say about this

ALH



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Re: IBM plans for the future - an imaginary tale

[Aled Hughes]

"There seems to be confusion in the Colonies.";-)
 
I have known Trevor a long time, and I believe his tongueis firmly in his cheek 
in this situation. In other words, this (to me) is aclassic bit of British 
humor which has to be read in that context. To me, itcertainly reflects what I 
suspect is happening at IBM these days However, notto detract from some of the 
great folks in management at IBM, there does seemto be demand to make 'profit' 
the King. And as Jack says, there seems to be amultitude of MBAs about (Means 
Bugger All in my book!)
 
ALH
 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Pete Lancashire 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:03
Subject: Re: IBM plans for the future - an imaginary tale

pSeries/AIX admin here ...

just as dense here as well.

-pete shaking head and mumbling

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:27 AM, John McKown 
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:15 AM, zMan  wrote:
>
> > WTF. Can't decide what he's trying to say: that IBM has a solid strategy?
> > That they're fooling themselves? I must be dense.
> >
>
> ​You're not the only one.​
>
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Mark Regan 
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/mainframe-world/ibm-plans-for-the-future-an-imaginary-tale-73469
> > >
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Re: Tech News 1964

[Aled Hughes]

Banks, financial organizations, retailers and other companies who depend on 
reliable information tend to use mainframes. In the case of Google, Facebook 
etc, if they give an erroneous result, it is not a major catastrophe. 


Just my two pennyworth here. 


ALH



-Original Message-
From: Mike Schwab 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:01
Subject: Re: Fwd: Tech News 1964

Google builds servers running a Linux derivative. A user version runs
on ChromeBooks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform

Facebook has custom built AMD and Intel servers.  All connections are
in the cold aisle.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-facebook-data-center-faq-page-2/

Netflix runs FreeBDS on low power Intel processors.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2489741/networking/how-netflix-streams-movies-to-your-tv.html

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:33 PM, R.S.  wrote:
> W dniu 2016-04-07 o 21:37, Mike Schwab pisze:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/07/ibm_s_360_50_anniversary/
>>
>> 96 of the biggest 100 banks in the world still run IBM mainframes.
>
> Keywords: still, largest.
> "Stil" means defensive, marketshare loss.
> "Largest" means only the largest institutions really need mainframe.
> Questions: What about those remaining 4 biggest banks? What computers do
> they use?
> Since those 4 bank in first 100 can live without mainframe, what about banks
> from third or fourth hundred?
>
> Mainframe are usually used by big and OLD companies. "Old" is important here
> - it's IT legacy, it's cost of migration, etc.
> What big and new (30 years old or less) companies use mainframe? Google?
> Facebook? Netflix?
>
>> If there is job security in the world, that is it.
>
> Not for me. Raincode.
>
> --
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> Lodz, Poland
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

[Aled Hughes]

Just to be the awkward one here: the use of 's for plural is grammatically 
incorrect, personally I don't care if it is universally accepted - it is wrong 
and should be avoided. It is on a par with the misuse of examples such as 
'their' when meaning 'there' and 'here, here' when 'hear, hear' is meant. I 
know language evolves, but grammar does not. 


We need Mr Gilmore here! 






-Original Message-
From: Joel C. Ewing 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 2:33
Subject: Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

The recognized punctuation rules are no longer black and white where z13
and z13s are involved.  The rule of always using an apostrophe for
plurals of "non-words" is no longer universal:

One rule is apostrophe "s" is used for plural for "words" that are not
normally a noun; but z13 in our context is normally a noun, so by that
standard the plural could be just z13s.

When multi-digit numbers are made into a plural, it is now acceptable to
use just "s" for plural, as in both 1990's and 1990s being in common use
for multiple years in that decade -- again by that standard, z13s could
be a plural of z13.

And of course, if you want a possessive form, like "the z13's frame",
then the apostrophe is required, which is very confusing if you also
demand the apostrophe for a plural.

All in all, "z13s" as a distinct machine type introduces ambiguity that
could easily have been avoided.  It was not an astute choice.
Joel C. Ewing
 
On 02/18/2016 07:57 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
> Maybe right:
>
> z13 is a single z13
> z13's is more than one z13
> z13s is a single z13s
> z13s' is more than one z13s
> z13* or z13x is one or more z13*'s or z13x's
>
> where x or * is any char including null
>
> Ken
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Ed Gould  wrote:
>
>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:30 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>> -SNIP-
>>
>>> 4. IBM has greatly relaxed the data center environmental requirements for
>>> this model, expanding the temperature and humidity envelopes. It's much
>>> more realistic now to install the z13s in nontraditional data centers, or
>>> even places that aren't really data centers. Platforms that move, for
>>> example, or out in remote facilities. (In technobabble it's an ASHRAE
>>> class
>>> A3 system now instead of class A2.)
>>>
>>
>> SNIP---
>> Timothy,
>>
>> Thanks for the update
>> -WAR STORY TIME
>> I worked at one place that used a ware house type environment to do DR.
>> That is they bought a new machine in their DC and disassembled the old
>> machine and put it in the ware house.
>> Some how they expected the old machine could do DR. Periodically they
>> would send a sysprog off to the DR site to power up and run a few job.
>> The sysprog was fairly good he could use a screwdriver like no other
>> sysprog and could basically get the machine up and limping to do those few
>> jobs.
>> That is until they bought a new machine that couldn't IPL the latest and
>> greatest MVS. Also DB2 wouldn't even work.
>> They ordered the new machine with their heads in the clouds as they were
>> so cheap they didn't even want to pay for the latest COBOL.
>> They screamed and moaned about having to put out a few dollars a month for
>> COBOL and LE.
>> When reminded that the old COBOL was Y2K compliant that pretty well shut
>> them up.
>> I was never so happy to leave place everything that cost $$ was met with a
>> NO.
>> They were also unhappy that their homegrown security system would not work
>> anymore and they had to go to RACF.
>> IDIOTS they got what they deserved.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> ...


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Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

[Aled Hughes]

Thanks for the info Tony, and Lindy reminded me of John's wife's name. Sadly, 
Mrs. Gilmore (Kate) passed away in January last year. She was an author. 


https://www.sfsite.com/news/2015/01/13/obituary-kate-gilmore/


She also had her own website: http://www.kategilmore.net/


We can only hope that John will return to add his wise counsel on the forum 
soon. 


Best regards
Aled L Hughes







-Original Message-
From: Tony Harminc 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 23:46
Subject: Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

On 3 February 2016 at 15:02, Pommier, Rex  wrote:
> Is this the same John Gilmore?  The obituary you listed is from January of 
> 2015, and I found a note from Elardus from November stating that John hadn't 
> posted anything since November 5, 2015.

Though John Thomas "Jack" Gilmore Jr. sounds like a fascinating
fellow, he cannot be "our" John Gilmore. The birthdate (even the
month) doesn't match, neither does his wife's first name, and it is
inconceivable that there would be no mention of our Mr Gilmore's
European education and language facility.

Tony H.

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Re: So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish

[Aled Hughes]

Best of luck Shane - enjoy your time, and don't think twice about us lot still 
slaving over z/OS ;-)
 

 

 

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To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 9:47
Subject: So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish

Shane ...

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Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

[Aled Hughes]

Just chip, Martin. I got a new chip card last week and used it at Tesco in the 
UK. Sure, it had to read the chip and could not be swiped, but no PIN, just 
sign as usual and compare signatures - seems the Brits are much more stringent 
in checking signatures on cards than in the US. 
ALH

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Martin Packer 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:26
Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

Ah Chip & PIN at last.

Cheers, Martin

Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM

+44-7802-245-584

email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker
Blog: 
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker



From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date:   21/11/2015 16:29
Subject:Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card 
statements!
Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List 



At 09:04 -0700 on 11/21/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Were you 
at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st:

>On 11/21/2015 08:49 AM, Bob Shannon wrote:
>>>  Maybe someone should raise a requirement that the SHARE Hotels 
>>>credit card system should be secure.
>>  Seriously Ed? Do you really think a major hotel chain is going to 
>>tell potential customers their credit card system is insecure?
>>  
>Credit card companies are on the verge of providing an incentive by 
making
>vendors liable for fraudulent charges on insecure credit cards.

That went into effect as of October 1. That is why all the credit 
cards are being reissued with chips. If a card with a chip is 
presented to a merchant and the card is swiped in lieu of the chip 
being read, the merchant is responsible for the fraudulent charge.

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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Aled Hughes]

This reminds me a bit of that great Movie 'Space Cowboys'. (Made when Hollywood 
still had real stars!)

ALH

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Scott Ford 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:40
Subject: Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • 
Job For Shane?


Elardus,

Yep, very funny...I see a parallel and not parallel universe,
mainframe
systems folks and developers retiring and mainframes going the way
of
Voyager 1 ...


Scott

On Monday, November 2, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht
<
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:

> Jon Butler wrote:
>
> >Is this
remote work or will extended travel be involved?  ;-))
>
>
> I foresee some
serious terrible problems:
>
> 1. How do you motivate extended (and perhaps
failing) dial-up time in your
> overtime sheets? Those top-brass people (PHB,
bean-counters and auditors)
> don't understand technicalities...
>
> 2. Same
for travel. I believe, AFAIK and the last time I checked, there
> are no
hotels, sightseeing points (you'll have to zip past those planets)
> or repair
facilities. Just remember to bring blankets, apparently it is
> freezing out
there ...
>
> 3. Now those Mars wannabee travellers don't have any plans to
return due
> to some problems, how will you travel back? Do you have any
'escape' plans?
>
> Is it already Friday ??? ;-))
>
> Groete / Greetings
>
Elardus Engelbrecht
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Talk Talk Attack

[Aled Hughes]

For those of you who don't know, Talk Talk is a major Broadband/Phone provider 
in the UK with over 4 million customers who has been hacked. Seems ALL the 
customers details have been gleaned (see list in the article). 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34611857

I've listened to some "security experts" pontificating on the BBC this morning. 
They seem to have no idea what they are talking about, but one of them is a 
Professor no less. Must be all right then, mustn't it. 

Anyone want to take a bet that Talk Talk do not use Mainframes? 

Biased? Moi? "Answers on a Postcard please." 

Happy Friday

ALH

PS This is the kind of "wake-up" call that CTOs need to be aware of if thinking 
of moving off the mainframe. (B of A listening? Sorry, Alan!)




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T-Mobile Data Hacked

[Aled Hughes]

I have to wonder how long before the media start to blame 'old 
legacy/hardware/software/mainframes' on this situation. No further information 
has been declared yet. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34420879

Experian do use a myriad of back/front office systems as well as mainframes. 
How about a disgruntled employee as a reason? But blaming mainframes is the 
choice of these journalistic experts isn't it? 

Sad.

ALH

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Re: T-Mobile Data Hacked

[Aled Hughes]

;-)


 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Shane Ginnane <ibm-m...@tpg.com.au>
To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Sent: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 11:11
Subject: Re: T-Mobile Data Hacked


On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:54:40 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:

> But blaming
mainframes is the choice of these journalistic experts isn't
it?
>
>Sad.

Careful fella, this business may make you cynical.

Shane
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Re: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

[Aled Hughes]

All the best Mark, and if you do "retire", I know that the fishing off Gandy 
Bridge is great! 

ALH

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Mark Jacobs - Listserv 
To: IBM-MAIN 
Sent: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:45
Subject: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish


This is the last week that Time Inc employees will be responsible for 
our zOS
and zVM Tampa Data Center. Support and services is being 
outsourced to IBM and
AT, and sometime in 2016 our mainframe LPARs 
will be moved to IBM's zCloud
environment. I'm one of the few Data 
Center employees being retained (for
now), but I'm not going to be 
directly responsible for the zOS environments
I've lovingly supported 
for 20 years after Friday.

I'll still be subscribed
to the mailing list, but without being involved 
in new and interesting "stuff"
going forward my ability to contribute 
might be limited.
-- 

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Jacobs
Time Customer Service
Technology and Product Engineering

The
standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
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Re: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!

[Aled Hughes]

I recall a presentation by IBM Executives all those years back about the 'New 
Era of Computing' (or something corny like that). One presenter mentioned that 
there were other PCs around, but the IBM one had three things going for it over 
the others:

I
B
M

And the PCs of this world still haven't worked out how to upgrade the OS 
without a restart 

Sigh.

ALH

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: William Smith sfo...@sbcglobal.net
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Sent: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:48
Subject: Some Trivia:  Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!



Happy Birthday, IBM Personal Computer, August 12, 1981, the announcement date
for the original from IBM Boca Raton, Florida, birthplace of PC DOS and
OS/2.
August 12 is also the birthday for MGM's release of The Wizard of OZ
(1939) and Edison's first phonograph in 1877 (Mary had a little
lamb.).

Bill SmithSr. Consulting z/OS Systems
Programmer


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Re: Silent IBM-MAIN?

[Aled Hughes]

 
Probably enjoying the beach.

Last time I looked, Orlando is at least 50 miles from the nearest beach as the 
crow flies, but with the recent rain in Florida, perhaps you are right Ed!

ALH




 

 

-Original Message-
From: Ed Finnell 000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu
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Sent: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:20
Subject: Re: Silent IBM-MAIN?


Probably enjoying the beach.
 
http://www.share.org/orlando
 
or off at
_www.machinegunamerica.com_ (http://www.machinegunamerica.com)  
practicing 
for the revolution.
 
 
In a message dated 8/11/2015 4:03:02 A.M. Central
Daylight Time,  
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za writes:

Perhaps,  but by
removing the parenthesis and ignoring the break-up of the 
word Sin,  you're
removing the fun from that tongue in cheek math 
challenge.


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Re: Silent IBM-MAIN?

[Aled Hughes]

OK, Ed! But to me, who has spent most of his life by the coast, a beach has 
sea, sand and ice cream stands! ;-)

 

 

 

-Original Message-
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To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:27
Subject: Re: Silent IBM-MAIN?


Define beach!
 
http://www.swandolphin.com/aboutus/maps.html
 
 
In a
message dated 8/11/2015 6:10:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 

0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes:

Probably enjoying
the 
beach.


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Re: Mainframe Network Protection

[Aled Hughes]

Thanks Donald, but surely, if he has posted RACF questions, doesn't he realize 
that what he's asked is kind of stupid? 
What kind of survey as Elardus said? 


 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Donald J. dona...@4email.net
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:21
Subject: Re: Mainframe Network Protection


Or am I naive in thinking that this is a for real and not a scam? 

No. 
Marco has posted a number of RACF questions previously.

-- 
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dona...@4email.net

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015, at 03:04 AM, Aled Hughes wrote:

Marco, I have to ask in John McEnroe's famous words - you cannot be serious. I
admit no one has commented so far, but that is to be expected. Are you really
that naive? Or am I naive in thinking that this is a for real and not a scam?

 Security Consultant should be a clue. 
 Duh.
 
 Is it Friday,
yet?
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Marco
Antonio Ferreira marcoafsi...@gmail.com
 To: IBM-MAIN
IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Sent: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:55
 Subject: Mainframe
Network Protection
 
 
 Dear Friends,
 
 I'm doing a survey to find
out how you are doing to protect the
 attacks
 mainframe environment if they
can help me. I appreciate it.
 
 You
 protect your network TCPIP in
attacks mainframe ?
 
  How do you do?
 
 A)
 Firewall before the
Mainframe or inside
 B) Uses the SERVAUTH Class and defines
 all their
access networks
 C) Use other technique? Describe?
 D) Use of TERMINAL

class protection?
 E) Uses Digital Certificate to access the TN3270 emulator
or
 Citrix.
 
 -- 
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Re: Mainframe Network Protection

[Aled Hughes]

Marco, I have to ask in John McEnroe's famous words - you cannot be serious. 
I admit no one has commented so far, but that is to be expected. Are you really 
that naive? Or am I naive in thinking that this is a for real and not a scam? 
Security Consultant should be a clue. 
Duh.

Is it Friday, yet?

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Marco Antonio Ferreira marcoafsi...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:55
Subject: Mainframe Network Protection


Dear Friends,

I'm doing a survey to find out how you are doing to protect the
attacks
mainframe environment if they can help me. I appreciate it.

You
protect your network TCPIP in attacks mainframe ?

 How do you do?

A)
Firewall before the Mainframe or inside
B) Uses the SERVAUTH Class and defines
all their access networks
C) Use other technique? Describe?
D) Use of TERMINAL
class protection?
E) Uses Digital Certificate to access the TN3270 emulator or
Citrix.

-- 
*Marco Ferreira*
*Security
Consultant*

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Re: A New Performance Model

[Aled Hughes]

Seymour J Metz said, 

How do I know that yopu exist? (sic)

I felt I had to reply to this. Contrary to your somewhat puerile comment 
Seymour, Timothy DOES exist. I have had some excellent advice from him over the 
years which didn't necessarily involve purchasing more IBM H/W and/or S/W. 

I would also venture that Timothy knows much more about the ''real world of 
mainframe computing today than you do. (Even your web link doesn't work!)

My apologies to Darren for this rant. Sometimes, Seymour does make idiotic 
comments. 

Cheers!

ALH





 

 

 

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To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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Subject: Re: A New Performance Model


In
of1f97a172.f079794d-on48257e22.001a26e3-48257e22.001dd...@sg.ibm.com,
on
04/09/2015
   at 01:26 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said:

How
do YOU know it's even more expensive?

How do I know that yopu
exist?

You haven't articulated an inviolable physical constant, like
some
theories in physics.

Theories in Physics are provisional; evidence
trumps theory.m

This issue is situational,

Part of the stipulated
situation is a regulation with stiff penalties.

wait for 100% bug free,
fully performance optimized code

Are we having a sale on straw dummies? The
issue isn't whether to wait
forr 100% correct, but whether to do thorough
testing before rolling
code into production.

That doesn't mean operators
trying to say No to everything new 
is helpful. 

Neither inventing
positions that nobody took.

Even when I seem to be the only rational voice
in the room. :-)

Responding to imaginary posts isn't rational. Why not
address what
people actually wrote?
 
-- 
 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,
SysProg and JOAT
 ISO position; see
http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html 
We don't care. We don't have to
care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of
2003)

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Re: More big brother/big data

[Aled Hughes]

Thanks for that Shane - scary! 

Your link didn't work for me, but I traced the article to this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31916942

Cheers!

Aled

 

 

 

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Subject: More big brother/big data


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-31916942

Gotta love the final
sentence ...
The bottom line is, if it's free, you are the product and your
privacy is the currency.

Time for a new sig methinks.

Shane
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Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

[Aled Hughes]

What amazed me was that the President of the US invited the heads of Microsoft, 
Google and Apple to a meeting to discuss systems security! These are the people 
that essentially caused the problem in the first place. And why wasn't IBM 
invited? Allegedly, 65 - 70% of the world's data is held on mainframes. Not 
sure if that includes all the movies etc held on home PCs. 

ALH

 

 

 

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From: Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:54:22 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

The examples you give are all software.

Indeed.
Let's hope people think about the included software when they're buying 
hardware. History doesn't inspire confidence.

Then again, when bodies supposedly mandated to protect national security 
apparently compromise the firmware of commercial hard drives, what chance do we 
have ?.

Shane ...

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Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

[Aled Hughes]

G'day Shane/Elardus

Benjamin Disraeli said: ''There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and 
statistics.''

And that great American wit/writer Mark Twain said: ''Facts are stubborn, but 
statistics are more pliable.''

Cheers!

ALH

 

 

 

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From: Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:08:12 -0500, Aled Hughes wrote:

Allegedly, 65 - 70% of the world's data is held on mainframes.

97% of putts that are under hit don't go in the hole...  ;-)

Never did achieve the degree of confidence in statistics that my Uni lecturers 
would wish.

Shane ...

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Re: Twelve different companies IBM has been (watch the wrap)

[Aled Hughes]

It still won't work for me. Perhaps it's because I'm in the Olde Worlde right 
now. I talked to a colleague in Florida and it worked fine there. Must be the 
lack of heat here! 

I shall store it for 'later viewing'. 

Thanks for all your efforts, much appreciated. 

 
Cheers
ALH

 

 

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From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
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Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 9:24
Subject: Re: Twelve different companies IBM has been (watch the wrap)


Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

I will retry later on FireFox and post my experience here.

No problems at all on IE10 (not using compatibility mode) and Mozilla FireFox 
35.0.1.

Just that I have a lot of [ inedible :-D ] cookies and cookies and cookies to 
reject... [1]

About gripes about the URL which Ed Gould posted, I have no problem to 
copy/paste it and place it in my address bar. All my browsers could join all 
these lines as one line as one URL without intervening spaces.

Granted, I read+reply IBM-MAIN posts on my web browser.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

[1] - I can turn prompting off, but I decided to be notified of any invading 
cookie armies...

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Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

[Aled Hughes]

Based upon this statement:
''which suggests a service such as Google Cloud, Microsoft One Drive, or 
Dropbox was utilized to reduce chances of detection.''

I would suggest they are not a M/F shop. 

In my view, any company that would trust their data to the above deserve what 
they get. Why isn't IBM management talking to these companies? It always 
happened in the good old days!

Just my unbiased view, you understand. 

ALH

 

 

 

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http://www.darkreading.com/risk/a-mere-eight-days-after-breach-anthem-healthcare-notifies-customers-/d/d-id/1318979

Watch the wrap.

Are they a mainframe shop?

 
Thanks, 
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[Aled Hughes]

Thanks Gil. Unfortunately, it only goes up to the second pic. Maybe it's me... 

ALH

 

 

 

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:21:00 -0600, Ed Gould  wrote:

http://www.itworld.com/article/2879505/twelve-different-companies-ibm-
has-been.html?
phint=newt=itworld_todayphint=idg_eid=f25a1fcfc67bc53700c99e4a00e517d6#
tk.ITWNLE_nlt_tonight_2015-02-04
 
You need to get a better Web agent.

If I Copy and Paste it into a URL window, Firefox repairs it.  I'll try to 
unwrap it.
(Posting from browser interface):

http://www.itworld.com/article/2879505/twelve-different-companies-ibm-has-been.html?phint=newt=itworld_todayphint=idg_eid=f25a1fcfc67bc53700c99e4a00e517d6#tk.ITWNLE_nlt_tonight_2015-02-04

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[Aled Hughes]

Thanks Ed, but even your expertise didn't make it better. Shucks. 
 

 

 

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Well, you could try itworld.com and navigate or tinyurl:
 
http://tinyurl.com/nzzpzpn
 
 
In a message dated 2/5/2015 1:59:19 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes:

Unfortunately, it only goes up to the second pic. Maybe it's  me.

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Thanks Chuck. I'll try that. Having been so close to IBM for some 50 years, I'd 
love to see what the article has to 'say'. 

ALH

 

 

 

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I tried Mozilla Firefox and had the same experience.
I then tried IE version 8 and had the same experience.
I then turned on compatibility mode and it worked, sort of.
Some of the text was overlayed, but it was sufficient to at least see the 
pictures and figure out what they were with a little figuring out of the 
overlayed text.

Charles (Chuck) Hardee
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Of Aled Hughes
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 3:27 PM
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Thanks Ed, but even your expertise didn't make it better. Shucks. 
 

 

 

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Well, you could try itworld.com and navigate or tinyurl:
 
http://tinyurl.com/nzzpzpn
 
 
In a message dated 2/5/2015 1:59:19 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes:

Unfortunately, it only goes up to the second pic. Maybe it's  me.

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[Aled Hughes]

Oh come on everybody. Lighten up - it's only a game after all! 

*Ducks*

ALH

 

 

 

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Almost. At the point in time you describe, it would be a FULLY inflated ball. 

Linda

Sent from my iPhone

 On Jan 24, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com 
wrote:
 
 So I guess we can assume that you are supposed to inflate the ball to the 
point where it bursts, then go back in time to the point just before the 
bursting and you have an inflated ball?
 
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Re: COBOL Programmers In Demand?

[Aled Hughes]

Thanks for that Govind. As you say, internet searches don't necessarily mean 
diddly. 

And I appreciate Shane's comment, sysprogs with 30+ years experience are not 
faring any better with contractor rates at ridiculous levels. As the lad said:-


And anybody actually in a job is keeping their head down.

Good to see you still around Shane! Your antipodean humor is always 
appreciated! Sadly, I see fewer of the 'old school' around these days, perhaps 
it's me. 

Cheers

Aled

 

 

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:37:01 -0500, Aled Hughes aledlhug...@aol.com wrote:

According to the UK's Daily Mail, COBOL programmers are commanding 'big money' 
especially some of the retired ones. I suspect some of the so-called salaries 
are contractor rated. £50,000 (about US $76K) works out at less than £200 a 
day. 
The actual going rate seems to be about £400 a day absolute maximum, but this 
is 
about what was being offered over 20 years back. 

As usual, I suspect that the article has been written by a person who cannot 
even spell 'mainframe'. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2863570/Out-retirement-experts-programming-1950s.html


According to the TIOBE report on the popularity of programming languages COBOL 
has moved up from 26 to 13th place in the last year, almost a 1% increase in 
popularity.  Popularity is measured in terms of internet searches, not 
necessarily reflective of an increased demand, but I still find it intriguing.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

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[Aled Hughes]

According to the UK's Daily Mail, COBOL programmers are commanding 'big money' 
especially some of the retired ones. I suspect some of the so-called salaries 
are contractor rated. £50,000 (about US $76K) works out at less than £200 a 
day. The actual going rate seems to be about £400 a day absolute maximum, but 
this is about what was being offered over 20 years back. 

As usual, I suspect that the article has been written by a person who cannot 
even spell 'mainframe'. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2863570/Out-retirement-experts-programming-1950s.html






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Re: GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Acquire IBM's Semiconductor Technology Business

[Aled Hughes]

What I don't understand is that IBM are paying $1.5 bn to GlobalFoundries... 
shouldn't it be the other way, or is my understanding of the laws of economics 
on shaky grounds? 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29689344

 

 

 

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Thought people here might be interested in the post below from the z/VM
forum.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com
Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:53 AM
Subject: GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Acquire IBM's Semiconductor Technology Business
To: ib...@listserv.uark.edu


 IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that they have signed a Definitive
Agreement under
which GLOBALFOUNDRIES plans to acquire IBM's global commercial
semiconductor technology business,
including intellectual property, world-class technologists and technologies
related to IBM Microelectronics,
subject to completion of applicable regulatory reviews. GLOBALFOUNDRIES
will also become IBM's exclusive
server processor semiconductor technology provider for 22nm, 14nm and 10nm
semiconductors for the
next 10 years.



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Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?

[Aled Hughes]

Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated! 

Now, why don't IBM use this information to advertize their wares? If I was in 
IBM 'marketing', this would be broadcast on TV ads and newspaper ads! Please 
wake up the IT world to good news, IBM, and 'share the word'! Wouldn't it be in 
IBM's interest to promote such a solution? Or am I being naïve?

OK, rant off. Time to go pick some tomatoes. 

ALH






 

 

 

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From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
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Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?


Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

I will try to find out about that municipality how did they do that trick. 
Just 
to satisfy my insane curiousity. :-)

Curiousity cured. ;-)

From private correspondence: 
That municipality has an old m/f and has upgraded to a new z Box. Some 
applications were carried over, but there are now a good dose of SLES11 SP2 or 
SP3 there with a good lot of applications ported/developed over there. 

Other sources:

http://www.ibm.com/news/za/en/2014/03/31/U770233P58807G38.html
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/wavv14/Linux_on_IBM_System_z_better_and_more_secure.pdf

From http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44688.wss this (Same text 
from link posted by Steve):

Brazil's Algar Telecom replaced 80 Hewlett-Packard servers with an IBM 
mainframe platform, achieving savings of 50 to 70 percent in data center floor 
space, energy and cooling.  At the same time, Algar increased operational 
efficiency by 30 percent. 

The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the province of 
KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the approximately 3.5 million 
citizens of Durban, South Africa.  Utilizing an IBM infrastructure, the 
government reduced the number of physical servers in its environment by 67 
percent and reduced infrastructure complexity by 80 percent.  As a result, it 
was able to improve time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92 
percent faster.

..etc.

This is not one shop, but many shops which are moving over to z Boxes to use 
zLinux on z/VM.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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[Aled Hughes]

Thanks Mike, but I believe that is shown only in the US. 
Us mere mortals in the Olde Worlde get no such gems. And that is quite a good 
ad as ads go. 

ALH

 

 

 

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Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:36
Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?


Somebody stole the servers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Aled Hughes
0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:
 Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated!

 Now, why don't IBM use this information to advertize their wares? If I was in 
IBM 'marketing', this would be broadcast on TV ads and newspaper ads! Please 
wake up the IT world to good news, IBM, and 'share the word'! Wouldn't it be in 
IBM's interest to promote such a solution? Or am I being naïve?

 OK, rant off. Time to go pick some tomatoes.

 ALH












 -Original Message-
 From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
 To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:21
 Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?


 Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

I will try to find out about that municipality how did they do that trick. 
Just
 to satisfy my insane curiousity. :-)

 Curiousity cured. ;-)

 From private correspondence:
 That municipality has an old m/f and has upgraded to a new z Box. Some
 applications were carried over, but there are now a good dose of SLES11 SP2 or
 SP3 there with a good lot of applications ported/developed over there.

 Other sources:

 http://www.ibm.com/news/za/en/2014/03/31/U770233P58807G38.html
 ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/wavv14/Linux_on_IBM_System_z_better_and_more_secure.pdf

 From http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44688.wss this (Same text
 from link posted by Steve):

 Brazil's Algar Telecom replaced 80 Hewlett-Packard servers with an IBM
 mainframe platform, achieving savings of 50 to 70 percent in data center floor
 space, energy and cooling.  At the same time, Algar increased operational
 efficiency by 30 percent. 

 The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the province of
 KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the approximately 3.5 million
 citizens of Durban, South Africa.  Utilizing an IBM infrastructure, the
 government reduced the number of physical servers in its environment by 67
 percent and reduced infrastructure complexity by 80 percent.  As a result, it
 was able to improve time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92
 percent faster.

 ..etc.

 This is not one shop, but many shops which are moving over to z Boxes to use
 zLinux on z/VM.

 Groete / Greetings
 Elardus Engelbrecht

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[Aled Hughes]

Gil, I'm not sure what you are referring to. I was discussing IBM's lack of 
'selling the message' either by advertizing on TV or the press here in Europe. 
And as Steve Comstock said, has IBM done anything like that 'server' ad in 2006 
which I did see when I lived over there? 

Perhaps Mr T might wish to comment? He has a great grasp of what's going on! 

Cheers
ALH

 

 

 

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:40:57 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:

Thanks Mike, but I believe that is shown only in the US. 
Us mere mortals in the Olde Worlde get no such gems. And that is quite a good 
ad 
as ads go. 

VPN might be your friend here.  There are commercial services.
Proxies?

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Somebody stole the servers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38

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[Aled Hughes]

OK, thanks, I now understand what you meant. 

I would prefer if IBM would have ads here in Europe (and other non US 
countries) extolling the virtues of the MF in such circumstances which could 
show prospects the benefits of the MF, and perhaps how it has adapted to new 
solutions. 

Cheers
ALH


 

 

 

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:00:29 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:

Gil, I'm not sure what you are referring to. I was discussing IBM's lack of 
'selling the message' either by advertizing on TV or the press here in Europe. 
And as Steve Comstock said, has IBM done anything like that 'server' ad in 2006 
which I did see when I lived over there? 

I meant that VPN or a proxy can make it appear that you're connecting from
a site in the US, perhaps allowing you to view content that's blocked outside
the U.S.

-Original Message-
From: Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:46

On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:40:57 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:

Thanks Mike, but I believe that is shown only in the US. 
Us mere mortals in the Olde Worlde get no such gems. And that is quite a good 
ad 

as ads go. 

VPN might be your friend here.  There are commercial services.
Proxies?

-Original Message-
From: Mike Schwab
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Somebody stole the servers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38

-- gil

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Personally, I thought there was only one English as she is spoken by HM! 
I spent 20 years in the US trying to teach Americans to speak English 
properly... but failed :-(
And John - ow she cuttin dere by'e - there's always Newfoundland English!!!

 

 

 

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How odd that they didn't include the real one - Canadian English EH!!

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In the checkout process, it wants to know my Communication Language and my
Media Language. For the latter, choices include:

Australian English

British English

Eastern European English

English

International English

US English

 

I'd be hard-pressed to choose among several of those.or to even imagine what
Eastern European English is?!

 

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Re: OT:Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research

[Aled Hughes]

Hi Miklos

Try this link

http://www-05.ibm.com/innovation/uk/watson/watson_in_healthcare.shtml

Schöne Grüße

ALH

 

 

 

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Subject: OT:Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research


Hi

 There has been several articles (here in the newsgroup also) about 
the Watson machine and cancer research.
  If someone could know a person who knows the details, maybe contact me 
privately.
It is a serious meter, thank you in advance.

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Re: Failure using Firefox to access IBM-MAIN - Connect Interupted

[Aled Hughes]

I also have Firefox 27.0.1. Got a message that my Java needed updating, so 
being a trusting soul, I did it. Found my home page had changed to Conduit.com, 
and very few of my usual favorites worked, with messages like 'This website 
does not support encryption', even from my bank! Then the messages saying my PC 
was slow etc... I managed to get rid of Conduit.com after several attempts, but 
then it all came back. Ran Malware, found two trojans, changed settings again, 
and all is OK now. I tried a Windows update, but nothing showed up there. I use 
Trend Micro anti-virus I have noticed before that it misses 
viruses/trojans. I have another laptop which is also on Firefox 20.0.1, but 
running AVG. Found the trojans/viruses straight away. I'm told that Conduit is 
not a virus, only spyware. A regal PITA in my view. 
David, check your 'Manage Search Engines', and make sure that Conduit is not on 
there. Even if it is not being used, you would need to remove this program. 
HTH
Aled L Hughes

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 6:11
Subject: Re: Failure using Firefox to access IBM-MAIN - Connect Interupted


David Rawson wrote:

Just switched to Firefox 27.0.1 and I am now unable to use the URL link in 
emails to access this forum. The URL links in the daily emails generated by 
IBM-Main work just fine under IE.

The failure is in a message box The connection to listserv.ua.edu was 
interrupted while the page was loading.
Suspect the problem is with the logon logic before the requested page is 
displayed. 
Ideas ?

While I have used FireFox on IBM-MAIN in the past, I also observed now this 
same 
error message:

I get 'This website does not supply ownership information.' and 'This website 
does not support encryption.'

I have looked at cache, cookies, firewall, the usual suspects. I will look 
again 
at my home and try again.

And since Ed Finnell said about JAVA, I have also a look at it. Nothing 
suspicious there, AFAIK.

Other list servs work fine with FireFox 27.0.1 and IE10 and IE8.

I must have missed something too.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Levono

[Aled Hughes]

I've spent several hours reading news reports from far and wide about this much 
anticipated development. 
What I would like to know is, what does this now mean to IBM's core business. 
More importantly, what is IBM's core business? Do I detect that System z is 
becoming more important? Mrs Rometty has said some 'promising' words about 
'cloud' business (referring to new data centers), which, to me, was about as 
clear as a... cloud. 
I also hear wise words about IBM the 'services' company. Personally, and I 
think so would IBM-MAINers (is that a word?), I would like to see some real 
positive emphasis on System z in the next few weeks to coincide with the 50th 
Anniversary of the S/360. So far, the silence is deafening. 
Sorry if I offend anyone here on the List or more likely at IBM, and perhaps my 
cynicism is showing in my advanced years. 
Perhaps it is the cold weather here in Florida - my old school friend back in 
Wales tells me it is warmer there than here! 
Cheers!
Aled L Hughes.  



 

 

 

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To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:13
Subject: IBM sells x86 server business to Levono


http://www.itworld.com/hardware/401502/lenovo-agrees-buy-ibms-server-business-23-billion

For 2.3 billion dollars (U.S., Australian, or Canadian not specified, but I
guess U.S.).

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Maranatha! 
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Re: IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers

[Aled Hughes]

I have to agree, zMan. 
It's important for IBM (in their view) to be seen to be 'keeping up with 
technology/trends'. And as 'cloud' seems to be a major 'marketing' word/ploy 
right now, journalists etc are lapping it up. Few of them have ever heard of 
mainframes, or they believe the 'experts' that no one uses mainframes any more. 
Interestingly, the article says that the data centers will be built in London, 
as well as in the US, Canada, Mexico, India, Japan and China. My money would be 
that the majority of this 'investment' will be in India and China. It will give 
IBM-MAIN a new lease of life as more questions are fielded from inexperienced 
newbies.
Am I getting cynical in my old age? 
 
 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:37
Subject: Re: IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers


Feh. These numbers are meaningless--probably includes the salaries of every
IBMer involved plus his/her dog.

And I thought Linux was the answer for IBM? Are they replacing those
multi-$B Linux data centers now? Yes, I realize the Cloud could be built on
Linux, and that it could also be parallel -- my point is, again, that these
numbers are meaningless in isolation. The semiotics are really IBM thinks
Cloud is important, film at 11.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Lizette Koehler
stars...@mindspring.comwrote:

 I provided the long URL and TINYURL for that reason.

 Lizette


  -Original Message-
  From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
  Behalf Of Lou Losee
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:18 AM
  To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
  Subject: Re: IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
 
  FYI, you could have cut the original URL down to:
 
 http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/2240212684/IBM-ploughs-billions-into-cloud-
  data-centres
 http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/2240212684/IBM-ploughs-billions-
  into-cloud-data-centres?utm_medium=EM
 
  The rest is just tracking garbage.
 
  --
  Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
- Unknown
 
 
  On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Lizette Koehler
  stars...@mindspring.comwrote:
 
   I found this interesting
  
  
  
  
   http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/2240212684/IBM-ploughs-billions-into-
   cloud-
   data-centres?utm_medium=EM
   
   http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/2240212684/IBM-ploughs-billions-into-
   cloud
  
   -data-
  centres?utm_medium=EMasrc=EM_NLN_26232187utm_campaign=20140121
   _Cloud
  
  
  %20developers%20get%20their%20own%20Amazon%20VPCs_ahughesutm_sou
  rce=N
   LNtra
   ck=NL-1814ad=891343
  
  
  asrc=EM_NLN_26232187utm_campaign=20140121_Cloud%20developers%20g
  et%2
   0their
   %20own%20Amazon%20VPCs_ahughesutm_source=NLNtrack=NL-
  1814ad=891343
  
  
  
   or Tinyurl
  
  
  
   http://tinyurl.com/n3tt2ou
  
  
  
   IBM has revealed it intends splashing $1.2bn on its cloud computing
   infrastructure building 15 more data centers across the globe as it
   looks to position itself as a major source of rented storage space.
  
  
  
   Lizette

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Re: Is the oner of IBM-Main still with us?

[Aled Hughes]

As so stated by Mr Gilmore, Ed's typo was obvious.
 
As to getting a reply, I have my doubts. Ed's comments about/to Darren have 
often been rude, or as Elardus more politely put it: 

I even don't know how they will reply to you in a friendly way... ;-)

Sorry Ed, but you need to lighten up or think about what/how you write. The 
SysProgs of yore have long dropped their 'angry young men' stance. 
This Forum is thankfully a witness to that. 

ALH


 

 

 

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To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:17
Subject: Re: Is the oner of IBM-Main still with us?


Here the onus probandi clearly falls on those who assert that the
owner of IBM-MAIN is defunct.

The only evidence for this notion yet adduced is that he has not
replied to an email message, and I do not find it persuasive:  There
are days when I omit to reply to many such.

In passing, the [Latin] plural of 'onus' is 'onera', from which the
[English] adjective 'onerous' is derived in the usual way.  [Latin
dropouts are of course free to use 'onuses' instead if they judge it
felicitous.]The form 'oner' has no standing.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner

[Aled Hughes]

Personally, never held much store on anything that Gartner ever said or 
commented on since the mid-80s. I doubt if they know what a 'mainframe' is or 
can do these days. 
On that note, I wish y'all a 'Blwyddyn Newydd Dda' as we say in Wales. 

 

 

 

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To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 13:42
Subject: Check out Top 10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner


_Top  10 Strategic Technologies | Gartner_ 
(http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/top-10-technology-trends/)  
 
We'll see how this goesHave a Happy

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Re: SNA vs TCP/IP (was: z/OS is antique ...)

[Aled Hughes]

Digression. In my then neighborhood in London (UK), I was the only one who 
bought Betamax, the quality was so much better than VHS as Gil said (but I 
couldn't get too many movies!). It also had the advantage that my house was one 
of the few that was not broken into and have their VCR stolen!

Back on topic. SNA/SDLC - in my view, as robust as z/OS today in terms of 
security etc. As Jon said, TCP won, but did we get 'the best'? I doubt it. 
ALH

 

 

 

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From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 13:12
Subject: SNA vs TCP/IP (was: z/OS is antique ...)


On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:49:40 -0800, Jon Perryman  wrote:

... sad that he's bringing others to the dark side.
...
* z/OS: SNA existed long before TCP/IP was available. SNA was a robust, 
reliable and secure communications methodology. Once TCP was became available, 
we had the same situation as Betamax versus VHS. TCP won.

There's always a reason.  Rarely is it an analogue of Gresham's Law,
to which one partisan attributed the triumph of UNIX over VMS (Bad
software drives out good!)  Betamax succumbed to the greater capacity
of VHS cartridges; a decisive advantage in the eyes of consumers at a
tipping point in time despite the higher quality of Beta in professionals'
view.  For many years thereafter I saw Beta only in the kits of TV news
reporters on location.  I think VHS had caught up in quality and Beta
in capacity, but both camps has too much capital investment to switch.

So, why TCP/IP over SNA?

o Price?

o Openness of standards and implementations (price, again)?

o Institutional bias against a perceived single-vendor solution
  (openness, again)?

o Structured name space (thereby larger and more easily
  partitioned/distributed)?

o DNS (name space, again)?

Imagine an alterate universe without TCP/IP but an Internet
very simlar to ours; Google; Facebook; Skype; iTunes;
NetFlix; and all; all running (FSVO) smoothly on SNA.  What
modifications or extensions had to be made to SNA to
accommodate this?

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Re: regex that never matches?

[Aled Hughes]

Shmuel
Just for your information, the Welsh language does not have a 'q' in it. 
Nor does it have 'j', 'k', 'v', 'x' or 'z'. 
But, we do have many more 'letters' which are combinations of letters, such 
examples being 'ch', 'dd', 'ff', 'll', 'ng, and 'ph'. 
ALH



 

 

 

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Sent: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 2:28
Subject: Re: regex that never matches?


In 0382727397514044.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
07/10/2013
   at 10:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:

I was taught in grammar school that q occurs only followed by u.
Before the ascendancy of Middle Eastern politics.

Welsh?

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Re: My Last Days as a Sysprog

[Aled Hughes]

 All the very best to you and your family Eric! 
ALH

 

 

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To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 10:26 am
Subject: My Last Days as a Sysprog


I'm finally calling it quits.  I have this week off, and then I work 2 more 
weeks.  Then I will retire.  I find it harder to do my job as I get older. 
Also, living 170 miles from home 5 days a week isn't much fun.

One thing I'm looking forward to is playing in 2 different blues jams, one 
on Tuesday and one on Wednesday.  That's something I really miss now. 
Tomorrow I'm looking forward to playing.   Usually you play about 1/2 hour. 
There's a lot of people I know there also, so it'll be fun catching up.  I 
think the last time I played in the jam was last summer.  I play guitar.

I'm not sure if I'll stay subscribed to IBM-Main.  I suspect a few weeks 
after I'm done at work, I'll set my account to nomail.  I've learned a lot 
from many of you.  It's also really good to be able to get answers and 
different opinions when yu have questions.

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Re: mainframe selling points

[Aled Hughes]

 Don
The 'analysts' are wrong! 
This biased article appeared on the BBC who is not known for any 
opinion/expertise about IBM mainframes - you will also note that no 'person' is 
attributed to authoring this article. It also quotes Pund-IT who also seem to 
know nothing about mainframes. Finally, we have a comment from Gartner, a long 
time advocate of disliking mainframes - I recall attending a Gartner conference 
back in 1983 when they said 'the mainframe is dead'. I said at the time, 'Long 
live the mainframe'!
Unfortunately, some of IBM's most senior management do not share this view and 
will always look at the 'bottom line'. However, last quarter's finances speak 
for themselves. 
There is a lot of interest in using mainframes instead of massive server farms 
(zLinux being the key). 
Maybe our friend Timothy S can chime in here? :-)
Cheers
ALH


 

 

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From: Don Williams donb...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 1:40 pm
Subject: Re: mainframe selling points


The article below does not paint a good future for the mainframe...I hope
the analysts are wrong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19399368 
==
IBM unveils faster, smaller mainframe
IBM has unveiled a mainframe computer it hopes will help head off
competition from lower cost PC-based servers.
It said the zEnterprise EC12 had cost $1bn (£633m) to develop, producing a
machine with processing cores 25% more powerful than earlier models.
The re-designed machine also had better security and data-analytics tools
than older models, said IBM.
The launch comes at a time when, analysts say, the mainframe market is
experiencing a long-term decline.
IBM is by far the biggest seller of mainframes and the machines remain
popular with big banks and other organisations that use the large computers
for their heavy data-processing needs.
Prices for a basic mainframe, which are based around IBM's own silicon
chips, start at about $1m (£633,000).
Improvements to security, speed and processing power would keep existing
customers happy but were unlikely to win IBM new clients, said analysts.
It's going to be harder and harder for IBM to find new customers and new
opportunities for the mainframe, said Charles King, an analyst with
research firm Pund-IT.
Rather than buy a mainframe, many companies now rely on banks of cheap
PC-based servers for their number-crunching needs.
IBM said it would start shipping zEnterprise EC12 computers to customers in
September.
Market-research firm Gartner said the mainframe market was seeing a
long-term decline.
It estimated that annual sales would fall in 2012 and keep falling every
year until at least 2016.
During that five year period the market would shrink by 14%, it said.
==


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Sumi, Joseph J. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: mainframe selling points

Hello, I'm looking for ideas to add to what I've come up with so far 

If you are an application and you were deciding what platform you should be
developed and run on, what are the KEY items (IE: selling points) associated
with the mainframe environment that would steer you to pick the mainframe
over other platforms ?

IE: I know scalability and availability are factors but other things like
... why DB2 over Oracle, why RACF security over Unix permissions, why z/OS
over UNIX (for example)  ... any ideas will be appreciated ! !

Thanks, Joe 

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Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

[Aled Hughes]

A rather rude and totally unwarranted comment, Don. 

Personally, I have always welcomed John Gilmore's comments. His command of the 
English language (and other languages) puts most of us to shame as does his 
knowledge and wisdom. 

Don, an apology would not be amiss. Perhaps one is having a bad day?  

ALH



-Original Message-
From: Don Imbriale don.imbri...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:49
Subject: Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate


So John is back to useless posts that do more to attack than to provide
ubstance.  Your earlier departure from this list was not missed.
- Don Imbriale
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:25 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
 Mark,

 I am aware that you have done very useful work, and I will therefore be
 polite.

 I am a nevertheless more than a little tired of this nonsense.  I have
 been in this business since 1949.  That's 63 years.  How long have you
 been in this business?

 You would presumably agree with milder formulations of the notion I
 set out, say that a GETMAIN makes a complementary FREEMAIN desirable,
 perhaps even necessary.

 Moreover, you omitted to provide any details of the many examples of
 things that can be made larger but not smaller that you can think
 of; and this made your argument unimpressive, converted it into
 vacuous rhetoric.

 I can myself think of instances of the sort you allude to without
 mentioning, and those I have examined in detail stem from the usual
 omissis.  If shrinking as well as stretching had been a requirement ab
 initio, it would have been easy enough to implement.  It was not, and
 it was hard to provide as an add-on feature.   This is bad design, and
 Garden-of-Eden states do almost always reflect design defects

 Substantive argument and disagreement are fine.  I expect to be
 disagreed with.  I indeed try not to post platitudes that can provoke
 no disagreement.  You, howerver, omitted to make any substantive
 argument.  Your post was one more instance of what I have elsewhere
 used MIlls' term to characterize as crackpot realism.

 John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 -



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Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

[Aled Hughes]

Yes, indeed, very sad news. I spoke to Rick last year, and he was very helpful. 
A great loss. 
Aled



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Subject: Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman


No apologies necessary, Shane.  All of us who had any interactions with 
ick understand completely.  We've lost a friend.
Tom

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