On Jul 4, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
There are *DOCUMENTED* instances where IT is coached into putting
an ad into the paper asking for the world in qualifications and
then put in a low salary in the same ad. This is used to show the
"need" for more IT workers at a reduc
Also, the moons orbital distance increases by 4 cm a year, slowing the
earth. We will be adding leap seconds more often until in a few
thousand years our days will be 1 second longer.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Jim Carpenter wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wro
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
> Since the leap second can only occur on June 30 or December 31, it is not
> that hard to write the PTF and stockpile it.
As Mike has previously said, it is possible for a leap second to be
inserted on the last day of ANY month.
Jim
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At 18:07 -0500 on 07/03/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Leap
Second today!:
On 2011-12-29 24:00:00, Independent Samoa advanced its clocks
by 24 hours, to 2011-12031 00:00:00. There was no December 30.
This was announced well in advance, and published in advance in
the IANA database. It c
I did reply as a private note to Mr. Baker.
Glad you are watching out for me.;-D
He posted on both the assembler and IBMMAIN lists. So I used a short cut by
sending it to him.
Lizette
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At 16:24 -0500 on 07/03/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Leap
Second today!:
Actually, you could have known that for 4 months, ever since the
IERS announced the leap second. (Less the time it takes for a
PTF to be created, distributed, and installed.)
Since the leap second can only occur
Not real certain that there are any "special" considerations. Each task will
need its own connection to DB2. I suspect the linked-in DB2 functions like
DSNALI are reentrant but the logical connection cannot be shared. (And
conversely a single task cannot have more than one active connection to
DB2.
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 23:46:33 -0400 "John P. Baker" wrote:
:>I am looking for any pointers to documentation describing how to structure a
:>multitasking assembler program where multiple subtasks are concurrently
:>accessing DB2.
Assembler is not relevant.
:>No two (2) subtasks will be accessing t
I have worked for consulting companies to support IBM mainframes for
awhile. I was laid off back in 2012 after 43 years because the long term
support people were making too much money. It would be interesting to see
how fast a batch problem gets fixed at 2am, by support personnel with no
specific c
Ed Gould wrote:
>Timothy: You make a broad brush stroke in blue.
True.
>There are *DOCUMENTED* instances where IT is coached into putting an ad into
>the paper asking for the world in qualifications and then put in a low salary
>in the same ad. This is used to show the "need" for more IT wor
Great story!
Charles
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Subject: Tony Barr on the History of SAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SV-H8qEeAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SV-H8qEeAc
A couple of minor notes:
In Oct, 1972, at State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance,
I purchased the FIRST copy of SAS after their first
announcement - maybe 2 inches in DataMation I think:
"The Statistical Analysis System is available from
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