On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:20 AM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote:
True. More portable to what other environment? Just curious.
Windows, Linux...anywhere that Rexx runs. I have many Rexx programs that run
on multiple platforms; the only environment-sensitive pieces are (of
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:42 AM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote:
Is there a REXX for Linux, other than ooREXX? I've never used those
functions in ooREXX on Linux. But I'm not very knowledge about ooREXX,
either. I use Perl on Linux. I avoid Windows like the plague ridden corpse
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
SOME TEXT A vs. SOME.PDS(TEXT) (or whatever).
^^
Errr... Can you supply a code example that uses that form as an argument
to STREAM or CHAROUT?
Assuming you meant my PDS reference, no,
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
(Would this be better on MVS-OE?)
This is utterly weird! On Solaris 10, I do mvslogin, then cd to
a PDS, then do wc * (count lines, words, and characters in all
the members). I see:
135$ ( cd /my/mvs/PDS amp; wc *
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.comwrote:
What's wrong with the name Poon?
From Wikepedia:
Joseph Poon is William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics at the
University of Virginia. He is famous for cross-disciplinary research
applying physics principles
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
Kinda unreadable.
What is it that I have to do to read these?
Decode it (it's MIMEd). If you got it as a single posting, then your mailer
or LISTSERV is broken. If it was in a Digest, then the problem is
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
I'm stuck with Outlook here at the office. I never see this at home
using Thunderbird and Linux.
Hm. By mailer I meant mailer, not mail client. I'd assume any current mail
client could read it.
Since you
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
Exchange.
Oh, and you're at Sterling Commerce -- I bet some horrible gateway broke it
(nothing against SterComm, just that big companies tend to have such
things).
Look at the message headers, see what MIME
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
I think they changed to FrameMaker for doing our manuals. Now when you
try to do cut/copy/paste operations, you pick up stuff that you didn't
expect. You can't select certain things without other items
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
We are stuck. There is a PCI requirement to NAT all access, but that's not
possible when TLS/FTP is used.
Right. You really can't use FTP and be PCI-compliant, is my understanding.
What's the actual problem you're
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Thompson, Steve
steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote:
In my opinion, FrameMaker causes problems for cut and paste. At least it
does in manuals that I have to review.
Are you sure it's Frame? I think it's just PDF.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote:
There is no good reason to have wrong or obsolete information. But
I can think of one good reason to not have the release information and
OS compatibility information on your web site. That type of information
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Miklos Szigetvari
miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote:
How can I write binary from a REXX CGI program to the SYSTSPRT
(i.e. in a HTML site I'm sending PDF or AFP from the SPOOL to a browser)
How are you writing non-binary data? What interface?
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Miklos Szigetvari
miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote:
I write now via Say.
As I set the HTML content-encoding to binary , the transer is o.k. so the
PDF binary transsfered, but as I'm using the Say to write the HTML I got
extra newlines .
I would like
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote:
Steve,
38MB is enormous?
What kind of internet backwater are you in? :-)
That's enormous for a RedBook, and Boulder is often pretty slow. I
have nominal 30Mbit, often see 20Mbit from fast sites, and Boulder
is at least an
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:40 AM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com wrote:
I don't know EKM. However, in general, you should be able to hardcode
the IP address in your configuration file or, better, in local host tables.
Although hardcoding sounds less flexible, it has to be done somewhere -
either
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Don Williams donb...@gmail.com wrote:
You're not the only one to interpret it as non-trivial. No longer
confused.
Yeah, my bad. Stupid language!
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Walter Marguccio
walter_marguc...@yahoo.com wrote:
as far as I understand, our Lotus Domiono will continue to be responsible
to receive, filter, antispam the incoming e-mail addressed to us. According
to some rules, only a tiny part of the inbound e-mails will
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Lorne Dudley dudl...@queensu.ca wrote:
Can we have richard...@yahoo.com removed from the list. We don't need the
Viagra commercials on this list.
Careful, he may be a legit member whose machine has been compromised,
or just whose address was faked. Faking an
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:14 PM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
Faking an email address is fairly simple. Well, at least if the receiver
doesn't look too deeply at the headers. I even know how to do it with
sendmail.
I believe I said that, Captain. -- Mr. Spock
Don't need
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
Ah! I intepreted beyond trivial as not trivial as the direction of travel
was not specified. My bad.
Ah indeed...you're right, of course, it was ambiguous. Not to ME, but
to anyone else!
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Lindy Mayfield
lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com wrote:
I don't know. That was one of the pages that I looked at, but I don't
recognize the name Technical University. The one I went to was the System
z Technical Conference. Could it be that the name has changed?
Tony Harminc wrote:
IBM had a poster they distributed in the 1990s saying VM soars with
20,000 licences. So at least at one point they provided a bottom
limit. One imagines the number is much lower today, and was never that
high for MVS.
And they admitted at one point that the 20K included
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote:
I am probably blind (and the find function is, too), but where on that page
does IBM talk about z/OS? It *does* talk about Linux, though. And
the 'mainframe' these days isn't just z/OS anymore.
Right -- where does the *post*
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Lindy Mayfield
lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com wrote:
That's right! There is no SIO on z/VM. I ran into that a year or so ago.
Ahh, it's good enough for me just to peruse the source.
Though CP SET 370ACCOM ON might help with that. But the BCMODE PSW is
probably
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Lindy Mayfield
lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com wrote:
i can do that on vm? create my own instruction?
Sure, you have source code...is it trivial? Not for something like this, no.
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
Well, sort of. Many priviliged instructions are dispatched via SIE. You can't
affect those. If you have find an unimplimented priviliged instruction which
is not trapped by SIE (hum is this possible?), then you
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
Trying to do some due diligence in planning some data transfers and getting
really confused.
Many seem to be saying that all FTP traffic has to be encrypted to meet PCI
standards. And yet I cannot find any such
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:26 AM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
I have a real gut desire to organize our internal Tech Services into a Wiki.
Something that is easily searchable with keywords. I'm having a real problem
with inertia and too much bother from others in my
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Ron Hawkins
ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Jack,
According to the web site you referenced they can ask for ID, but for VISA
and MasterCard they cannot refuse to complete the transaction if you do not
comply.
I'm tempted to test this the next time I'm
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
I made some changes to by UNIX BPXPRMnn members to test going to a sysplex
root. I IPL'ed the system. There were problems. But the message from z/OS is
useless. It tells me to refer to the HARDCOPY LOG. Like
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, jack.hamil...@kp.org wrote:
According to http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp, Mussolini
did *not* make the trains run on time. Interesting how those catch
phrases become part of common knowledge, true or not.
Tsk. You misunderstand the nature of
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.comwrote:
Is USS the same thing as OMVS? We have multiple MVS systems but I only
have USS (OMVS) access on one of them. I'm told USS is not available on the
others. Maybe there's some terminology issues...
Indeed. If you're
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.cawrote:
The trains were available.
...and Mussolini made them run on time!
(OK, I'm guessing that isn't the first time that joke has been made...)
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On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.cawrote:
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It is for this reason
that I am not optimistic about the long term viability of the z series
and z/OS.
Well, zSeries is dead, so it has no long-term viability.
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Ask a Spanish speaker whether año is the same as ano.
No, they're different letters. It may be clear from context, but the two are
no more the same than awe and ave in English. A better question might be
to ask a French
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
I'm trying this again, with a different technique:
Da, document in Cyrillic came through that time, rather than as whatever.
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
I said earlier in the thread:
Wow, I never saw this post...weird.
However, when I mount a Samba share from a UNIX host and some
directory there contains foobar, FooBar, foo,bar, etc.,
Explorer should display those
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
UNIX has done well without pervasive case munging.
You misspelled despite as without :-(
I often wonder how many millions of man-hours and real dollars have been
lost due to case-sensitivity in *IX. I've repeatedly
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
Hum, I have exactly the opposite opinion. I dislike Windows' case
preserving but case ignoring feature. I think that Mac OSX is like
Windows in this as well (and it is UNIX based). If it is going to ignore
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
OK, *not* trying to start a war, honestly curious: why do you dislike it?
Ease in sorting and searching. If I were implementing such a filesystem,
I'd store the names in a single case followed by a bitmap indicating
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:14 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
Most LINUX applications also display the filenames with a case insensitive
sort. Like the ls command. And Konquerer, Dolphin.
Good. I was starting to feel funny, holding up Windows as a shining
example...!
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:28 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
You're right it is not really insensitive. The lower case appears before
the upper case of a given character. I.e. apple is before Apple. My bad
terminology. I guess the order is aAbBcCdD and so on.
While
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
Which is why I suggested keeping all alphabetic characters in a single
case, followed by a bitmap identifying the case of the characters.
Case-insensitive lookup would ignore the bitmap; case sensitive would
consider
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Purdy dpurd...@aol.com wrote:
The same folks approved one 3350, when they came only in pairs, if
long-term memory serves. (Okay, the request could have been more
precise)
Right, should have requested one 6700 instead... :-)
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM, John Kelly
john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.govwrote:
You really have to know what bad is to make a comparison. I use to think
Extra was bad but they this account went to Secure Agent's 3270 emulator.
It REALLY is the bottom of the dung heap!
I'm sure you're right.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
Users repeatedly send me Hummingbird screen snapshots as JPEGs,
claiming it's all they can do.
Is there no way to capture a Humminbird screen as text?
I'm lazy; I want to be able to copy-and-paste, or search for
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
Cool. How's the noise level there?
He'll probably get IBM-MAIN there, same as where he used to be.
+1
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
I'm not aware of any emulator that does screen capture as text. If you
want text, have them Select All, then Cut and Paste into a word or text
document.
I think the problem is that at least one emulator (and I think
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
OK. My user, somewhat by accident, clicked on Paste without Formatting
simultaneously with the suggestion in this thread, and it worked.
So the Windows clipboard has parallel universes, JPEG and text.
And she said
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:34:08 -0500, P S wrote:
Yes, the Windows clipboard has multiple layers--that's why you can paste
HTML into Word and get formatted text, or into KEDIT and get just text. I
think of it like
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote:
Don't you mean CA Aggravator ??? :-)
montypython
Wait, haven't we done this?
Oh, yes, sorry.
/montypython
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Schwarz, Barry A
barry.a.schw...@boeing.com wrote:
By the people who published the user manual for it. Was there some part of
the question I responded to that was unclear? Did your system strip the
question off? (It showed up in my copy of the message so I
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Blaicher, Chris chris_blaic...@bmc.comwrote:
I have not done much testing, but I have an old (1972?) program that still
works. Original object code.
Way cool! Timestamp intact in the object deck? Or is it a load module? (NOT
challenging it, just wondering!)
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Martin Kline martin.kl...@yrcw.com wrote:
Wow. I don't recognize your name, but I went through exactly the same
experience with the woefully inexperienced staff from AA. They burned $35M
of the company's money before being booted out the door. Yet, they were
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Ron Hawkins
ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.netwrote:
Gee, I didn't finish High School. Better slit my throat now...
And I dropped out of college, twice, never finished. What's your point?
Sensitive much? Sheesh.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.eduwrote:
Periodically, the business model needs to be re-analyzed, and the IS
model should be changed to better fit the changed business model.
The core of the new system, as the core of the old system, should be
the data
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.eduwrote:
People don't need college to learn Java. Java's available for free,
it handles the kind of applications an amateur knows likes to play
with, and it is easy to find help on the Web.
People don't need college to
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
Hardly nonsense. On Win or Mac, when Firefox tells me it
needs an update, I click on Update. A few minutes later,
it tells me to restart Firefox to activate the update.
I click Restart Firefox to warmstart. Two
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
There was the well-publicized collision between JCLCHECK and FileManager
both starting with CAZ. I never heard the resolution. Apparently JCLCHECK
had never been officially registrated with IBM.
Registrated?? Ouch.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net shmuel%2bibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
That difference is simply a configuration item done to enforce the TC;
the actual engines are still the same. That and the speed difference are
for marketing reasons, not
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:12 AM, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote:
As for CBE, IBM was talking up Haplon and CBE on z a while ago, but that
seems to have died down. Interesting.
Ah, no wonder I couldn't find it: fading memory. It's Hoplon, not Haplon.
Lots of hits
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Tony Harminc tz...@attglobal.net wrote:
The specialty engine part is just so much marketing hype. As has
been discussed endlessly here, the current specialty engines are the
very same engines as all the others, but with different legal Ts Cs
that make it
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jim Elliott, IBM jim_elli...@ca.ibm.comwrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:15:59 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil
gerh...@valley.net
wrote:
If they were running on 3081s, that would be a big innovation.
Last I heard they were still on 2050s (stripped down 360/50s).
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net shmuel%2bibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
snip
What sort of mainframe can do this?
zSeries.
System z. zSeries is dead.
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote:
On 11/20/2009 at 10:38 AM, Don Leahy don.le...@leacom.ca wrote:
-snip-
It's unfortunate that there isn't a technical journal devoted to the
topic of systems failures on all platforms. It would be fascinating
to learn
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.comwrote:
Thanks, I understand about all that. I just thought the timing seemed
a little early.
Well, the ARE four years old...time flies!
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com
wrote:
I read in z/Journal that one mainframe can host 1,500 Linux servers. What
sort of mainframe can do this? How many CPU's would it take? How many
CPU's are the maximum?
How long is a piece of string? How big
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM, McKown, John
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
I think that SaaS is simply SOAP, but you pay. Sounds a bit like the old
Time Sharing systems that you could dial into.
Indeed. What was old is new again.
Cloud computing is a bit like casting your bottle
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
The 1500 number is made up, but is in the ballpark for a biggish z10.
How do you know it's made up?
I have no idea regarding this size, but I cannot dismiss it, either.
I always suspect blanket statements like that one.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net shmuel%2bibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
No, they're legally required to maximize profits without violating the
law. Lying about prevailing wages in order to get H1-B visa's is not part
of their fiduciary duty.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Maarten Slegtenhorst
maarten.slegtenho...@mail.ing.nl wrote:
Nice! I wish we had that, but, alas, it is not possible in our current
LAN-network.
Now we have to search for those who use an ip-address instead of a
dns-name,
because they have to change their
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:31:32 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
Because it's not a Windows box. is the usual reason for the open
systems people to refuse to do anything WRT the z/OS system. They apparently
think that z/OS
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote:
Tsk, tsk. I think You should leave this matter to more persons with
more knowledge. You see, this is a complicated matter, which You
will maybe grasp when You have got some experience.
And just how does this poorly
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Miller, Pat pat.mil...@trs.state.tx.uswrote:
It would appear that some of the application programmers whom I've been
admonishing to be more explicit than A processing error has occurred
have been advising the FTP developers in their considerable spare time
on
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote:
Truly interesting job title :)
Probably an internal title -- my favorite internal CA title is Client Base
Owner, or CBO -- which a friend immediately rechristened Chief Bulls**t
Officer!
Folks, folks -- you're down in the weeds of implementation. If you want it,
you need to justify it first. What makes this worth IBM's time? It would be
nice, It's about time, and We'd use it are not sufficient arguments.
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote:
Why is it called a memory leak? I think that's a distributed term. We
used to call it something else on the mainframe, but I can't remember
what.
Core cancer?
Hmm, in a few years this list will mainly consist of folks
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
I don't like metric, personally. Too Earth-centric. I think we need to
totally divorce all time and distance to more universal quantities. I
nominate the 21 cm hydrogen spectral line for a distance and 7E-10
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM, David Purdy dpurd...@aol.com wrote:
Is that even possible for 1980 era hardware?
-Not sure about parts, but in 1989 at Tektronix, we turned off supposedly
the last 168 (MP of course) running west of the Mississippi. We had about a
half-dozen CE's there, who
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com wrote:
How many Mainframe engines = 1500 x86 boxes?
How many Kenworth rigs = 1500 motorcycles?
Depends on what you're trying to do. Hint: if it's February in Minneapolis,
the number is a lot smaller than if it's August.
http://www.isham-research.co.uk/mips_chart.html
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/ibm_power7_z11_rollout/
No real details, just rumours
Sheesh:
Bramley says to expect the z11 machines in the third quarter of 2010, which
is a long, long time away in the
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.comwrote:
I am not making this up. This is an actual posting for an experienced MVS
systems programmer. Suitably redacted and approved for all audiences.
$23/hr. YGBFKM.
Interesting typo they made, W2 when they meant H1B.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Gainsford, Allen
allen.gainsf...@hp.com wrote:
For most manuals, softcopy is fine. But having a hardcopy
Reference Summary is *useful*. It's the number one manual
I refer to, by a long shot, and in the time it would take
me to open a softcopy version and
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote:
Or not. How long has it been since MVS/XA went to the museum? Or
CICS/OS/VS? Or ??
To be above board, I doubt you'd be able to run anything as a new
installation on the MP3000 that you can't run on Hercules
Notwithstanding where it was and whose fault it was or wasn't, the
fact that there are no backup procedures to speak of for keeping the
business running is worth noting (and for which management should be
excoriated).
I've seen both extremes in fast food restaurants: at a Taco Bell once,
a power
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote:
SNIP
THEM you might get some rational, realistic thinkers. :-)
Or ones who can write an English sentence, even.
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote:
Be interesting to see the back and forth memos about DR and failover on
their Linux Mainframes.
I can't make Linux make sense in context here. Are you implying that
the fact that this was Linux made it worse?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:14 PM, McKown, John
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
If the crew schedules and maintenance information was on that system,
they couldn't move until it was back up (hours of service and other
interesting regulatory issues). If the contract was written properly,
IBM
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Hadaway, John jhada...@ucsd.edu wrote:
The shortage is geograpghic...cost of moving preclude potential candidates
from
filling jobs in areas where needed...but with the housing crisis maybe that
might change...
Data?
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/10/09/Judge_Tosses_Antitrust_Lawsuit_Against_IBM.htm
is interesting (even if it does confuse the hardware and the
software); perhaps most interesting is the link at the end, to
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/10/09/IBM.pdf . This includes some
discussion of
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote:
A long time ago and far far away (1980's ?) I was in a MVS debugging course
(at IBM).I asked a question of the instructor and got an answer which I
looked at as a non answer.Though the years I have asked several IBM type's
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
For another view, see:
Linkname: IBM - EBCDIC and the P-bit
URL: http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
Yes! That's the one I had seen most recently, and couldn't find this time.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote:
Wrong equations :-)
What is the *business case* for adding better optimizations to the
COBOL compiler?
Back in the day when there was fierce PCM competition, you could add
new instructions and then spend money in compiler
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
That has nothing to do with whether IBM's licensing policies violated
antitrust laws. The fact remains that IBM refuses to license, e.g., z/OS,
on competitive systems.
Um. Doh?
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chuck Arney car...@illustro.com wrote:
Did you ever hear of FLEX-ES? They provided a 64-bit machine that IBM
would not let them license to production installations. They could
license it to developers until IBM decided to not license the patents to
them, so
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Bill Klein wmkl...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I am a COBOL person not an Assembler person. Don't the grande
instructions require a specific architecture level set? If so, that might
be why (as others in the thread have indicated), COBOL does NOT do what you
are
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Hillock, Timothy
timothy.hill...@cra-arc.gc.ca wrote:
Maybe the writer was trying to say the percentage of the students not
enrolling was increasing from year to year (but in fewer words as we
saw).
Maybe. But we can't tell. That's poor writing.
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