AW: NO response to "java -version"

2015-02-07 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> at the prompt i issue > (the fully qualifed path name is on purpose here): > /usr/lpp/java/bin/java java ?version I don't have access to a system at the moment, so I might be wrong. Anyway if there is no typo in the command line as show, I think the "java" is duplicate. The first one at t

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 February 2015 at 22:00, Timothy Sipples wrote: > I'm assuming customers use IBM mainframes and use these wonderful > capabilities (and others) IBM provides. Big assumptions, sadly violated too > often. Now it's (sadly) a "violation" to not use an IBM mainframe?! I know IBM has top lawyers an

Re: "ancient" cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread Ed Gould
Scott: I am far from an expert in these areas but here are some thoughts. From what little I have seen here in IL here are some guesses: 1. Budgets are not only bare bones but are downright disgraceful. Year after year the budgets are FROZEN and that means doing less with no new equipment. T

Re: "ancient" cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread Bill Godfrey
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/02/06/old-computers-state-government-agencies/22953063/ On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 19:50:10 -0500, scott wrote: >Which state agencies? Some out of work programmers would probably love >to do some meaningful work. > >On 02/07/2015 01:01 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler w

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-07 Thread Sam Siegel
According to Anthem's website, it was formed by the merger of Wellpoint and Anthem. According to http://mainframes.wikidot.com/, Wellpoint is a mainframe shop. Hopefully as additional details will become available. It seems, that unless you are in the know, which I'm not, that facts are in short

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-07 Thread Jake anderson
One of an article says the hack assumingly happened from an external Web storage. So not a mainframe ? Jake On 8 Feb 2015 08:31, "Timothy Sipples" wrote: > Tom Brennan writes: > >Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was > >encrypted on disk or not (as some news re

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-07 Thread Timothy Sipples
Tom Brennan writes: >Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was >encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I >mean, if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I must be going through the >decrypt process, right? No, that's not a given. Many financial

Re: "ancient" cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread scott
Which state agencies? Some out of work programmers would probably love to do some meaningful work. On 02/07/2015 01:01 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619 major cobol applications developed in 80s ... frequent crashes&outages, a

Other COBOL upgrades that might be worth having was Re: Compile COBOL Programs In 64 Bit.

2015-02-07 Thread Clark Morris
On 14 Jan 2015 16:57:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>Hi,I am looking for COBOL compiler option to compile our COBOL programs in = >>64 Bit mode.Please lead me if you have such a experience .The COBOL version= >> is 4.2 on Z9 with z/OS 1.12. Best regardsManshadi > >AMODE 64 COBOL is

Re: "ancient" cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread Mitch
and companies not looking to the future for requirements. There are probably a number of employees in the mid-40s that could be trained and let the newbies pick up the LUW support going forward. Mitch -Original Message- From: Scott Ford To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Sat, Feb 7, 201

NO response to "java -version"

2015-02-07 Thread Bonno, Tuco
to all who contributed to this thread both in ibm-main and in mvs-oe after about 1459 hrs (2:59 p.m.) last friday: (mainly Messrs &Mms Barkow, Justice, Hochhalter, Kugler, Carros, Gilmartin) personal problems have supervened in my life to prevent me from trying your various suggestions, and

Re: "ancient" cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread Scott Ford
That's not the only causemanagement being cheap, an issue I have seen for years...experienced people are worth their weight on 'gold' . On Saturday, February 7, 2015, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619 > major cobol application

"ancient" cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619 major cobol applications developed in 80s ... frequent crashes&outages, almost impossible to maintain or change ... in part because of the lack of cobol programmers. The state is even considering setting up financial incentive f