There are already drivers for Linux that support the library. The
original ones, "ibm_tape", were binary only, but they've been superceded
by the "lin_tape" Open Source drivers. Those will probably find their
way into the kernel tree sometime soon.
PAV support is also already there, via software
Cockney rhyming slang..
"Trouble and strife" = wife
Often not obvious.
There is a tendency with Australians (and to a lesser extent,
English), to come up with oddly created words. Sometimes these words
sort of rhyme with some other word. My mind doesn't work in those
kind of channels. Th
We had someone else (from another company) close a crash-related PMR.
We have another PMR open for that.
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Had to go back to deleted to find the original here..
The version of Arbiter I used did the opposite of this. It allowed PC
users to see mainframe DASD space as drives on their PC's. There were
utilities that allowed you to move files in and out of the Arbiter disk
spaces. There was a started t
Same here. We used it at the hospital where I used to work. It sort-of
worked, but was slow, and pretty buggy.
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Those of us who access the HMC on the z9's have Firefox installed. IE of any
flavor apparently doesn't work well with it.
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:43 PM
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We have a VPN client that sets the proxy in IE whenever it's run, and
doesn't unset it. IE7 seems to hang for a LONG time when it can't get
to the proxy. Very annoying the first couple of times.
It's also hung and crashed for other reasons.
Quickbooks 2004 has a warning page in their latest upd
Dataproducts made a series of printers that used bands. The B-200,
B-600, etc. I've suggested these over on the Hercules list for those
die-hards who want the most in realism. They print and sound as much
like a 1403 as anything I've seen.
Fast too.
Sorry if this had already been mentioned, I
It's still available from McGill. Some of the Hercules folks play with
it.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:48 AM
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When physicist Richard Feynman served on the Challenger investigation
committee back in the late 80's, he kept notes, and wrote up his
experiences in the book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?".
The Challenger story fills about the last 1/3 of the book.
Of all the Shuttle program groups h
It wasn't just the keypunch machines. Lower case seems to have been considered
a luxury all around.
The college I went to was so poor, we could only afford upper-case-only print
trains for our 1403 printers. (Before that, I think they hand wrote the
listings with quill pens...)
They didn't h
The problem I've had with this has been inconsistent implementation of the
TN3270E support on both the client and server sides. I started poking around
with it because I couldn't get certain emulators to connect to specific
addresses on Hercules, and it turns out that the emulators that seem to
Nope, we use alphabet soup for the suffix all the time.
LOADA0
LOADB0
LOADH0
LOADG0
LOADL0
and so on. Different member for each LPAR image.
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It's also pretty easy to do using ISPF services and skeletons.
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Actually, NTP is architected to minimize this problem. If you can get past the
technical stuff, there's an excellent explanation of the theory at:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp.html
David Mills, who developed the protocol, is more than a little obsessed.
Part of the benefit is that the
The hospital I used to work for was an early adopter of TCPIP for the mainframe
(early-to-mid 1990s), mainly because we needed to communicate with departmental
minicomputer systems. Our first version used an Intel-built interface box, and
the software came from them (but was probably written el
"... To be replaced by a cost of $1.5 million in floor space and air
conditioning costs."
Of course, if they weren't running much on their mainframe anymore anyway,
they've already eaten this cost in the infrastructure that replaced it.
Probably grew so slowly they didn't even notice.
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Nope, not any more. DELETE NVR deletes the space too.
I was really glad when they fixed that.
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> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [I
I just ran into something like this. I had a dataset with corrupted SMS info.
You can do DELETE NOSCRATCH to get rid of the catalog entry first, then do
DELETE NVR or DELETE VVR. That will get rid of the VVDS record, and the space.
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I feel obligated to point out, though, that the object code contains the
following:
TRSTRSMAIN-409,05/20/97,14.22Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
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My copy (on zOS 1.5) is amode any, rmode 24. It's a pretty vanilla program,
should work. YMMV though.
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> Su
It was still there at 2200 EST on Tuesday when I looked.
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> Alan,
We just put up CA11 3.0 with the new Datacom interface. Datacom starts up
fine, but when we try to start CA11 on some of the systems, we get the
following:
DCOM:DB01201I - RESTART, LOG NOT OPEN, NO ACTION REQUIRED
DCOM:DB01217I - RESTART, INSUFFICIENT FORCE (FXX) TASKS
DCOM:DB01208E -
If you mean the SAS package for processing SMF data, it stands for "Merrill's
eXpanded Guide".
Right Barry?
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Maybe they developed an aversion to nested acronyms.
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> >
To make it even better, the OS for that minicomputer (see below) was called
"Disk Management Facility". I'll leave that one to your imaginations.
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> Sent: Thursday, September 22,
I suspect that's true of a lot of acronyms.
A long time ago, I worked on a very obscure minicomputer, and all of the
utilities were named after the then-girlfriends of the developers. The
semantic contortions they used to turn those names into acronyms were really
amusing.
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We added "missing" vendor products to it all the time. Every time the
knowledgebase was updated, I'd review the custom list and take out anything
they had started supporting. Back when I dealt with it, the doc for this was a
little light, but it wasn't hard.
I even used it at one point to rep
The started task is now called (by default) MONITOR, and has fairly low
overhead. I looked at one of ours running, and it's used 9 CPU seconds in 77
hours running.
The started task is now called (by default) MONITOR, and has fairly low
overhead. I looked at one of ours running, and it's used
Hopefully this link will work:
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Freeway CPU?
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> Subject: [IBM-MAIN] What is D/T2064
>
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> Hi,
>
> Any know what device type 2064 happens to
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