it is common for spammers to send using bogus addresses in
the reverse path and in the header. If your have a sample of the spam
in question, look at the Received header fields to see whether it was
actually sent by yahoo.
Note: I'm not denying that yahoo has security and spam issues, just
noti
On 9/28/2011 1:52 AM, Ed Gould wrote:
All, I have been advised my email account has been hacked.
I apologize.
Unfortunately, this won't change a thing.
The originator of an e-mail address is no more valid as a method of
authentication than the return address at the back of a snail-mail enve
All, I have been advised my email account has been hacked.
I apologize.
Ed
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I have been told my email account has been hacked and email was sent using it.
I apologize and will once again change my password.
Ed
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Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>>What are you using to do tracing, if I may ask, please?
>I'm using a modified version of BWwhois[1] to do lookups. I've also got a RYO
>utility[2] that scans the entire e-mail and looks up all of the relevant names
>and addresses for
scans the entire e-mail and looks up all of
the relevant names and addresses for use in reporting the spam.
[1] The unmodified version is at <http://whois.bw.org/>
[2] The stable version is at
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Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>The legitimate messages also went through hotmail. However, compare the
>originating IP addresses; [108.20.159.218] is verizon while [65.55.90.239] is
>microsoft.
Before I posted, I have traced only that domain name ending with hotmail. I
initially did not both
e don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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Shane Ginnane wrote:
>My ISP just harvested some junk (supposedly) from John G - a vacation reply.
I also got that one too. That one came from 'snt0-omc4-s4.snt0.hotmail.com'
located in USA despite trying to fake a msn address.
Hmm, I need a vacation from all those spam, spam
Shane Ginnane wrote:
>Sorry - that would be Beijing in plain text.
For three and half nanoseconds I was thinking you're trying mixing English and
Mandarin languages... :-)
Groete / Greetings
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My ISP just harvested some junk (supposedly) from John G - a vacation reply.
Never had similar (from John).
Let's hope he hasn't been using Internet Cafe(s) in Běijīng.
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In , on
01/18/2011
at 10:48 AM, Mike Schwab said:
>Yep. I signed up for a topica.com email group.
They have issues.
>I bet the people marking it as spame has signed
>up for the list then marked an email as spam.
That certainly happens, but I wouldn't bet on i
gt;the group there is a high probability those with an email address
>of @comcast.net will reject the email.
Verio has spam issues; I don't see blocking NTT as being
overambitious. You should be able to send from a different network.
>I wonder how many valid emails are not getting t
site. They said they were sending 92% spam messages
and were blacklisted. I bet the people marking it as spame has signed
up for the list then marked an email as spam. I know I see about 1%
of non-spam messages in the spam folder, yet I have to keep telling
people to not automatically delete spam
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>>I wonder how many valid emails are not getting through
> because of false-positive results in some spam sensing
> algorithm.
>
> I have always wondered the same thing since a time when our service provider
> star
>I wonder how many valid emails are not getting through
because of false-positive results in some spam sensing
algorithm.
I have always wondered the same thing since a time when our service provider
started using a metric of percentage of messages filtered by the spam filter(s)
as an indicat
On 1/17/2011 8:49 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
,
on 01/15/2011
at 05:45 PM, "Schwarz, Barry A" said:
What happened to the common and effective advice - If you receive
spam, hit delete and move on.
To every complex question there is an answer that is simple, obvious
In
,
on 01/15/2011
at 05:45 PM, "Schwarz, Barry A" said:
>What happened to the common and effective advice - If you receive
>spam, hit delete and move on.
To every complex question there is an answer that is simple, obvious
and wrong. As Allan Sherman said, "Good adv
e-mail community.
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> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
>
> "Shane Ginnane" wrote in message
> news:<1294994009.4d300a5943...@postoffice.tpg.com.au>...
> > Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
> > Must have been done as a harvesti
But there are a lot less ads than this apparently interminable discussion about
an email that many of us never saw but get to relive vicariously through many
people's need to vent on this list.
What happened to the common and effective advice - If you receive spam, hit
delete and mo
>Not to mention that they first ask permission to post blatant ads!
Not all!
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On 1/15/2011 1:28 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Persons here in IBM-MAIN post regurlarly about training, upcoming events and
products. I tolerate them because they are honest and offering ideas and
advices here.
Not to mention that they first ask permission to post blatant ads!
Gerhard Postpi
acklist
this spam-mail for good.
Now just let things straight. I'm NOT into buying or hiring software and
hardware.
I'm just a lowly programmer. Nothing more.
And hyper allergic to spammers too... ;-D
But actually, because I'm the only one active on IBM-MAIN - I'm actua
On 14 January 2011 15:15, Linda Mooney wrote:
> Well, I would rule them out, not because they obviously harvested this list
> - but because they lied by claiming that I had subscribed. T he email
> address I use for this list is ONLY used for that purpose, never anything
> else. So the sta
In , on 01/14/2011
at 08:50 AM, Avram Friedman said:
>Most firms that seek new clients engage in some form of targeted
>advertising.
Spam is a good way to lose potential business.
>There are a few things that seperate the email from Recovery
>Knowelage from spam.
No. If it is
quot;
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 11:05:24 AM
Subject: Re: List spam
I would go so far as to say I wouldn't rule a company like this out but I
still take some exception to the back door method used to send out their
message, after getting their email list (I&
Shane Ginnane wrote:
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
Yes, but I found it mildly amusing...
Hello Deer
Recovery Knowledge an IBM Business Partner is offering an unbelievable
(No License Charge) discount on all our DB2 Automated Tools to IX Netcom.
Bob
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Stan, I agree.
There are always some grey areas (or grey persons, who besides plugging their
training company also provide useful contributions ;-)). However this is
indiscriminate spanning to z/OS
-
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Must have
been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to post
have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2
paraphernalia. Probab
t is wise to keep in mind that neither
> success nor failure is ever final...
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
> Of Avram Friedman
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:51 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
stan.wey...@emc.com
EMC² (508)249-3966
where information lives
It is wise to keep in mind that neither
success nor failure is ever final...
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Avram Friedman
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:51 AM
To
I would not consider a rare work related email as a spam attack.
Most firms that seek new clients engage in some form of targeted advertising.
There are a few things that seperate the email from Recovery Knowelage from
spam.
1. Appears to to a rare event.
2. It is targeted and directed
On 1/14/2011 1:33 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to
post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2 paraphernalia.
Probably seen it before and just trashe
Vernooij, CP wrote:
>I hope they respect my unsubscribe.
Perhaps not. Your address are now probably marked as 'live' and you will be
spammed properly...
Groete / Greetings
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Shane Ginnane wrote:
>Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
Yes. And I wasted precious seconds to review that thing in my Junk folder and
delete it.
Only 5 and half seconds of my life were wasted to get rid of this bored
spammer! ;-D
It took me a half minute to write thi
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Of Shane Ginnane
Sent: Friday, 14 January 2011 7:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: List spam
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to
post have been hit. No way I would have signed
"Shane Ginnane" wrote in message
news:<1294994009.4d300a5943...@postoffice.tpg.com.au>...
> Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
> Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I
use to
> post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2
pa
Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?.
Must have been done as a harvesting of the list as both addresses I use to
post have been hit. No way I would have signed up (twice) for DB2 paraphernalia.
Probably seen it before and just trashed it.
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the last six
months. We can help.
Marc
heiml...@streamfoundry.com
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Sender: IBM-MAIN
To: IBM-MAIN
ReplyTo: IBM-MAIN
Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: CA-OPS/MVS to IBM's System Automation?
Sent: Oct 22, 2010 3:46 AM
John,
we did it 5 years a
SFI (www.streamfoundry.com) has done 3 TSA migrations in the last six months.
We can help.
Marc
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Serious topic yaw here. Koyma was / is more "famous"..
=> better yet, to Vorkuta (or did they dismantle that place after 1989?)
=>
=> /s/ tuco bonno;
=> Graduate, College of Conflict Management;
=> University of SouthEast Asia;
=> "I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! "
=>
=>
=>
t; Cheers, Paul Gillis
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
> > Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach
> > Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 9:49 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> > Subject: ***SPAM*** Re
f Itschak Mugzach
> Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 9:49 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: ***SPAM*** Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or
> cpu load
>
> This "invoice factor" is a number that is caluleted reading milions of SMF
> recods. Why
Apologies for the spam, folks, my Gmail got compromised, its back to
business now, but I cannot promise your addresses did not get harvested as
well.
I'm pretty disturbed about it, and quite upset as well.. mainly because it
spammed email addresses from family members who are no longer wi
Making an OT thread even more OT, that reminds me of something I read just
yesterday -- the case of the 500-mile email:
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
It's an interesting tale if you're into problem-solving.
Jon
Faking an email address is fairly simple. Well, at least if the
I didn't get it.
MA
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
> Shane wrote:
>
> Anyone else get spam from ittrader ?.
>> Just wondering if my address was harvested from here.
>>
>> Shane ...
>>
>> -
Shane wrote:
Anyone else get spam from ittrader ?.
Just wondering if my address was harvested from here.
Shane ...
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From: Shane
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 2:20 pm
Subject: spam
Anyone else get spam from ittrader ?.
Just wondering if my address was harvested from here.
Shane ...
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Shane wrote:
Anyone else get spam from ittrader ?.
Just wondering if my address was harvested from here.
Shane ...
I got one, but I'm on several lists, so it's hard to
tell where it came from. Anyway, 'Delete' works fast.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer
Anyone else get spam from ittrader ?.
Just wondering if my address was harvested from here.
Shane ...
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;s where I wanted to retire to. Hopefully, I'll get
back there one day.
Les
Leslie Wagner
718-403-4207
wagn...@finance.nyc.gov
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Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 8:47 PM
To: Wagner, Leslie
Subject: [From Vwa
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Behalf Of
> farzad yazdi
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:42 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] SPAM Re: Is Xrc a reasonable solution
between
> two databases created separately(in DB2)?
>
> Ron I don't know about PRDF
06
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created separately(in DB2)?
Sanaz,
>From what I read of your intent you may be better of using DB2 Data
Propagator from IBM, or RRDF from ENET Corp.
These products are working with the Databa
Jim McAlpine wrote:
On 7/3/08, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I disagree. Real competition is second hand market. You can buy small z/800
almost for peanuts (few k$, less than FLEX). It's definitely not obsoleted.
You can run any version of supported OSes, including future z/OS 1.10.
There are
On 7/3/08, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I disagree. Real competition is second hand market. You can buy small z/800
>> almost for peanuts (few k$, less than FLEX). It's definitely not obsoleted.
>> You can run any version of supported OSes, including future z/OS 1.10.
>> There are HW feature
Pinnacle wrote:
[...]
Bastids. This is bad news for PWD/FLEX suckers. IBM's next red herring
for developers will be a PSI box which we will all stumble over
ourselves buying, only to have it obsoleted three years later (see R390,
P390, Integrated Server, MP3000, FLEX, etc.). They'll be sure
Skip this if off-subject stuff irritates you...just some Friday war stories.
Speaking of vibration testing...I remember back sometime in the 1970's we
had an intermittent storage director.
After a few SEV1 failures IBM would auto-escalate the support issue to page
somebody
and another guy in a
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But Rick,
do your users all reside in different time zones like mine do???
Isn't amazing how much railroad schedules and saving daylight make our lives
so difficult at times.
Decisions, decisions!
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No, we we
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I tried to run the ´sample´ IBM password copy utility (PWDCOPY on the
IBM RACF website) on z/OS 1.7 and
z/OS 1.8. The tool runs without errors, but the copied password could
not be used. Has anyone recently used this tool? Or has someone used
an alternativ
Setting up NJE really isn't that difficult. I can send you a short set of
directions for how to set it up if you want. If your systems are both on
the same physical processor (2 LPARs), and if it's a z-series box with an
OSA/e or similar, it's even easier.
I would bet that your systems people
Gilbert Cardenas wrote:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:45:28 EST, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Guess if all you got is PFCSKs DEST='IP:ipaddr' might suffice w/o NJE
<<>>
DEST=destination
The destination subparameter for JES2 is one of the following:
LOCAL|ANYLOCAL
'IP:ipaddr'
name
|
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:45:28 EST, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Guess if all you got is PFCSKs DEST='IP:ipaddr' might suffice w/o NJE
>
><<>>
> DEST=destination
>The destination subparameter for JES2 is one of the following:
>LOCAL|ANYLOCAL
>'IP:ipaddr'
>name
>| Nn
>|
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:21:53 -0800, Edward Jaffe
>The OP indicates that he already has TCP/IP connectivity between all
>LPARs and FTP servers running on each. Therefore, the JES FTP interface
>should be available without any additional configuration. (Though I
>would highly recommend specifying "JE
In a message dated 3/8/2008 11:03:41 A.M. Central Standard Time, r
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
vote for a NJE connection, with routing JECL where appropriate. It's a
LOT less prone to error than trying to do spool OFFLOAD and LOAD.
Shared spool may be out for valid reasons.
>>
Guess if all
Rick Fochtman wrote:
That will make a very reasonable physical connection; the next step is
to configure software to actually use it. :-)
I vote for a NJE connection, with routing JECL where appropriate. It's
a LOT less prone to error than trying to do spool OFFLOAD and LOAD.
The OP indicate
-
I haven't been following this but has anyone suggested setting up a CTC
between the LPAR's. The connection is setup over Escon channels.
---
That will make a very reasonable physical connection; the next step is
to config
We have a similar issue in our shop. The midrange area wants tapeless. the
Mainframe side TAPE.
We have a VTS and ATL. We use the product DRVI to stack the VTS Tape backups
to an real tape and ship it offsite for DR purposes. Tape is cheap. tape c
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Why am I seeing APARs for coexistence or toleration with z/OS 1.10
that go back to z/OS 1.6 (which is already past EOS)? I am seeing them
via ASAP notification. I saw one for WLM today and I know I saw one for
"sysplex join" as soon as z/OS 1.10 was
Rick Fochtman wrote:
Let's all quit trying to second-guess IBM and instead just wait a
while. I'm certain that there will be additional upgrades as the z/10
goes through evolution. Let's see what time brings us.
Customer dialog helps influence IBM's design and direction. If customers
always t
-
Please, somebody can help me with this: i tried to use the ICHDSM00 program
using SYS1.BRODCAST library, then using a DSMON sentences to get RACF report.
so, i get an abend S013 when jcl fails; what are the main reason for this abend?
---
---
Why not also allow the EXreg instruction to execute UP TO 8 bytes worth of
the register contents? In other words, if you have less than 6 byte
instructions to execute (say a 2-byte plus a 6-byte instruction) why not allow
BOTH of them to potentially
---
I am curious about the unintended affect of OA20749. Do you know if it
"in general" remove the restriction of non-SMS VSAM being limited to 4GB?
I would tend to doubt that. A PAGE file more closely resembles a BDAM
file,
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Handout hogs still roam from room to room grabbing handouts, making >it
hard to have enough for the people who actually stay and listen.
Why? Either they are too lazy to download a pdf (or thee won't be
one). ...
... ... I hav
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What I would love to see happen is that the handouts are on flash drives
or they could load the handouts on my flash drive so I can take notes
directly on my computer.
-
Or on CD-ROM or DVD. Then there would be two CD's: handou
-
he guy who precipitated all this extra discussion was
trying to get the thread oriented to remembering that the key length
must be considered when determining how many blocks will fit on the
track.
That's part of it. There's also code that rea
---
RACF itself has practically all the functionality built-in that you are
looking for.
If I remember correctly,
- RACF Configuration options allow the retention of (x) previous passwords
within the RACF database.
- password syntax options (length, valid ch
Has anyone ever encountered use of (or indeed had cause to use) the ACBUSER
field in a VSAM ACB?
Just curious.
---
I've used it, in the distant past, to point to a VTAM terminal message
queue. I also used
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Rick Fochtman wrote:
I can't say for sure what compression algorithm I'll use in the
updated ARCHIVER; overall performance and some of the technical
details will still need exploration but I've got some starting points
now.
Remember that there are high-performance, har
Rick Fochtman wrote:
I can't say for sure what compression algorithm I'll use in the
updated ARCHIVER; overall performance and some of the technical
details will still need exploration but I've got some starting points now.
Remember that there are high-performance, hardware-assisted compressio
My advice in another message about letting the system do the checking
still stands.
---
I strongly agree.
Consider that a potential customer may WANT all the logging he can get,
possibly weeding out dishonest
-
"Virtual Storage Access Method - The Complete Source Book for VSAM File
Structures" by Ronald K Ferguson.
Now out of box number 2. Mine hasn't got a signature, but it has a
coffee stain :-)
You mean coffee was around t
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It appears as a reward for posting regarding CA-TPX, I received SPAM from
data21.com trying to sell their product.
Gentlemen from data21.com - not a good idea to SPAM based on posts to this
list
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:06 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: SPAM from data21.com
>
>
> It appears as a reward for
It appears as a reward for posting regarding CA-TPX, I received SPAM from
data21.com trying to sell their product.
Gentlemen from data21.com - not a good idea to SPAM based on posts to this
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Many thanks to all who responded to my LZW query. I now have a plethora
of references available, thanks to many helpful responses both onlist
and offlist.
I can't say for sure what compression algorithm I'll use in the updated
ARCHIVER; overall performance and some of the technical details wil
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In the last shop I was in, all but one member of the application staff
considered it was "beneath them" to define their own PDS datasets.
They'd just send a request to systems staff, and management said we had
to do it, period.
I'd guess that
>In this case, an auditor would be your friend.
No. A compliance officer.
SME: Sets standards with help from compliance.
Auditor: Reports on how much/little is complied with.
Compliance: Enforces standards and ensures deviations are rectified.
Auditors should have no enforcement authority.
-
To
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:06:13 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>In the last shop I was in, all but one member of the application staff
>considered it was "beneath them" to define their own PDS datasets.
>They'd just send a request to systems staff, and management said we had
>to do it, period.
I'd gues
It's always best to consider the audience; I got into the habit of
referring to the 256-byte data portion of the actual record as the
directory block, ignoring the key and count portions, when talking to
application folks.
Doesn't that confuse them w
t.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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I now see the source of the communications problem, which was
exacerbated by Seymour's predilection to post one-word cryptic replies
or, in the case of his reply to my post, a riddle. The poster wrote
">Just to clarify: size of dir. block is always 256
In a message dated 2/18/2008 11:18:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I THINK the difference arises because of the key. While many of us tend
to ignore the key when referring to directory block, Seymour chooses NOT
to ignore this value.
I now see the source of the
<>OK, I'll bite. A PDS directory block has an 8-byte count area, an
8-byte key area, and a 256-byte data area.
Aha!
<>When is a directory block not 256 bytes long?
<>When 8 is not equal to 0. Which is why the number of directory
blocks
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D/R is just not an option at 10K (or more) meters up.
The closest time I ever got to fly a plane was in the Caribbean
between islands. My knuckles were wrapped around a steering wheel so
tightly that my hands were white. The pilot was right there but
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From what I've seen in looking at various bits and pieces of source
code, PL/S or its replacement(s) have been most heavily used in the MVS
code; not so much in OS/360, except SMP.
Do you count BSL as being PL/S? It was heavily used in OS/360, for
In a message dated 2/18/2008 10:09:09 A.M. Central Standard Time,
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>OK, I'll bite. A PDS directory block has an 8-byte count area, an
>8-byte key area, and a 256-byte data area.
Aha!
>When is a directory block not 256 bytes long?
When 8 is not equal to 0.
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