...
And why were all those pages left blank intentionally ?
...
We used to call that
“The IBM oxymoron”.
A page stating it's blank, by definition cannot be blank.
-teD
(The secret to success is sincerity.
If you can fake that,
you've got it made!)
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Ted MacNeil writes:
We used to call that The IBM oxymoron.
A page stating it's blank, by definition cannot be blank.
This practice was defensive. IBM received too many, many too many, requests
to replace these putatively defective blank pages. Bright-eyed readers
apparently judged tha
I hadn't heard the term oxymoron until I'd been at IBM for a few years. We
had a colloquialism in my family that was used in the same way oxymoron was.
The colloquialism was, "a self contradiction," which I haven't heard anyone
use in years.
As an information development coordinator for the VM op
john gilmore wrote:
Ted MacNeil writes:
We used to call that “The IBM oxymoron”.
A page stating it's blank, by definition cannot be blank.
In our course materials we have pages that we
want blank so that, for example, the next
section will start on a right hand page. We
have for years no
From: "john gilmore"
>
> Use of 'oxymoron' in this sense has a long history, extending from the
> Alexandrian rhetoricians forward through Milton, Voltaire, Burke, and I.
A.
> Richards. The cute folk etymology that relates 'oxymoron' to 'moron' has
> less weight, and it of course marks its users
Clark Morris wrote:
[snip]
The devil is in the details. I agree that changes to name lengths and
use of Unicode will require drastic changes to the BCP but the
combination of FBA and name length and character set changes will have
a drastic impact on the JESs.
The most important questions ar
I am looking for an IBM site which accepts a PTF search (not for a
specific problem, but) for example
CICS22 PTFs on PUT F504
CICS31 PTFs on PUT F505
I wish to get a list of PTFs as a series of words (tokens) e.g.
UK03xxx, UK02yyy, UK01zzz
Then I cut and paste this list in the IBM site for PT
In a message dated 6/26/2005 9:33:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Never have competing architectures (zSeries, iSeries,
pSeries, etc. I still can't keep them all straight).
Just the SA series. Think of the cost savings. Think
of the simplicity.
How you going to p
"Usenet" and "newsgroups" tend to be used interchangeably,
but they're not strictly the same. The main line groups
like comp.*, soc.* and so on are centrally administered
by some organization whose name escapes me at the moment.
In any case, you need a newsreader client to read/post
to the groups
Jeffery Swagger wrote:
"Usenet" and "newsgroups" tend to be used interchangeably,
but they're not strictly the same. The main line groups
like comp.*, soc.* and so on are centrally administered
by some organization whose name escapes me at the moment.
In any case, you need a newsreader client to
...
The degeneration of 'oxymoron' to 'moron' has IMHO a lot to do on its usage
in regard to politics/politicians
...
I had never noticed that oxymoron had degenerated to 'moron'.
And, that was not any part of my point.
(It was a joke: not a very good one; a joke).
-teD
(The secret to success is
Steve,
Go to Tools-Account Settings to set up each newsgroup account. The one
for IBM-MAIN as a newsgroup is any general newsgroup server, usually one
provided by your ISP. If you can't get here that way, try Teranews.com.
Once an account is set up, you may then subscribe to specific newsgrou
In a message dated 6/26/2005 10:40:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The degeneration of 'oxymoron' to 'moron' has IMHO a lot to do on its usage
in regard to politics/politicians
I would like to expand the moronically associated usage to include all forms
of govern
In a recent note, ibm-main said:
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:25:20 +1000
>
> From: "Matt Simpson">
> > This isn't quite as flexible as yours, but I got some JCL from a vendor
> > that creatively inverted the usual way the test works.
> ...
> > An interesting way of twisting the provided f
In a message dated 6/26/2005 10:19:06 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Usenet" and "newsgroups" tend to be used interchangeably,
but they're not strictly the same. The main line groups
like comp.*, soc.* and so on are centrally administered
by some organization whose na
I have heard that at some point in time, an IBM official said something
like:
"Standards? We don't have to follow standards, we set standards."
I have also heard it attributed to Bill Gates, but I think it predates
Micro$oft.
Does anybody (Sir Lynn?) have a definitive reference to:
If someone
Steve Samson wrote:
Steve,
Go to Tools-Account Settings to set up each newsgroup account. The one
for IBM-MAIN as a newsgroup is any general newsgroup server, usually one
provided by your ISP. If you can't get here that way, try Teranews.com.
Once an account is set up, you may then subscribe
...
"Standards? We don't have to follow standards, we set standards."
...
I honestly can't remember if I said this or somebody else did.
When we were converting to SMS (16+ years ago), the quote about naming
standards was:
“The nice thing about standards is we have so many to choose from!”
-
I have an IBM P390 that is available for sale, any interest? It is the 7 mip
model, and has no internal dasd. Basically you are buying the IBM OS2 PC
server with a P390 card. The unit has not run in 3 years and has just been
sitting around. It did run fine last time it was plugged in. Pleas
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
...
"Standards? We don't have to follow standards, we set standards."
...
I honestly can't remember if I said this or somebody else did.
When we were converting to SMS (16+ years ago), the quote about naming
standards was:
“The nice thing about standards is we have so many
In a message dated 6/26/2005 1:31:24 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Working as consultant (sometimes to reorganize and clean some env.) I
noticed that "They have standards, no doubt. They use ANY OF THEM.
Concurrently."
>>
As a vendor, they often time got boxed i
Carlos A Bodra wrote:
> Can I read CA-FAVER2 generated tapes under OS/390 using CA-FAVER2 VSE
> and vice versa?
There is no Faver2 in MVS, but recent versions of Faver/MVS will read
tapes created in VSE with FAVER2 and restore the data sets they
contain. I do not know if Faver2 can read tapes
Hello:
Here's a simple way for an assembler sub-routine to avoid being deleted
by COBOL at end-of-step: add these two lines plus a switch to ensure
they are only executed once.
IDENTIFY EP=X-X-X-X,ENTRY=*
LOAD EP=X-X-X-X
If X-X-X-X looks too weird to you, use any other name which does
The degeneration of 'oxymoron' to 'moron' has IMHO a lot to do on its
usage
in regard to politics/politicians
Wouldn't that be 'reduction'
in the chemical sense
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I see that Steve Samson already posted some instructions
for you. If you're still having trouble let me know and
maybe I can send you some screen shots of the config
panels or something.
--
Jeff
Steve Comstock said the following on 06/26/2005 11:25 AM:
Jeffery Swagger wrote:
"Usenet" and "new
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/24/2005
at 12:48 AM, "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
IDENTIFY cannot be used to convert an "unnamed" area of virtual
storage into a module with a CDE.
Are you a betting man?
It works only for that virtua
This just has to be too easy - what am I missing ???.
How do I do the equivalent of a "find -iname ..." under z/OS UNIX ???.
Currently I just pipe the output of a global find into grep (with -i). Is
there an option to "find" I'm missing ???.
Shane ...
CONFIDENTIAL
The information contained in t
On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Steve Comstock wrote:
john gilmore wrote:
Ted MacNeil writes:
We used to call that “The IBM oxymoron”.
A page stating it's blank, by definition cannot be blank.
In our course materials we have pages that we
want blank so that, for example, the next
section wil
In a recent note, Shane Ginnane said:
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:19:06 +1000
>
> This just has to be too easy - what am I missing ???.
>
You're missing GNU find.
> How do I do the equivalent of a "find -iname ..." under z/OS UNIX ???.
> Currently I just pipe the output of a global fin
Thanks gil - due to my general dis-enchantment with the z/OS
implementation, I've not chased the tools at all.
Maybe I'll have to get off my butt, and have a look at installing some (at
long last).
Cheers ... Shane
> >
> > This just has to be too easy - what am I missing ???.
> >
> You're miss
In a recent note, john gilmore said:
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:13:04 +
>
> It is almost certainly too late to recover the legitimate use of 'oxymoron'
> here; but it is perhaps worth noting that its original and still its only
> legitimate use is as a rhetorical figure that states a
Paul Gilmartin writes:
I hadn't understood that; I'm not sure I do yet. Can you enlighten us with
examples of a fully
legitimate oxymoron and a conventional, illegitimate oxymoron.
Proper oxymora are not far to seek. A famous double one is Tennyson's.
Writing of Lancelot, already guil
Hi all,
Thank you for your reply. I have used naviquest batch job to produce
some information from dcollect output, but can't find the directory
information of PDS. I want to obtain the directory full information from
the dcollect output though I know that tso command listdsi can do that
(need
Systems Programmer's Guide to Resource Recovery Services (RRS)
Revised: June 23, 2005 ISBN: 0738490768 178 pages Explore the book
online at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246980.html
Abstract
This IBM Redbook gives you a broad understanding of the Resource
Recovery Services (RRS) env
The DCOLLECT data does not provide PDS directory information, only a list of
candidate PDS libraries (DSORG bit test in the "D" record). REXX and
LISTDSI will return the PDS directory blocks allocated/used information.
Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
__
Hi all,
Thank you for your repl
In a recent note, gil said:
>
> You're missing GNU find.
> ... it may be on the Tools and Toys Redbook CD.
>
It was, and it (the binary) works fine on limited testing at z/OS 1.5
although allegedly compiled only on a OS/390 2.9 system.
Thanks - will keep looking around.
Shane ...
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On Windows XP, use -L.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
Western Metal Supply
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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On Windows XP, use -L
...
Not on mine -- “L” is for “Logoff”
“K” is for “locK”.
-teD
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If you can fake that,
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