Need more information as to exactly what you have in in your S99 plist.
What verb? what flags? which TUs?
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 8:05 PM John Szura wrote:
> I have a SDSB that works when JES2 is the primary subsystem but gets an
> S99ERROR=X'0478' when JES2 is the secondary and JES3 is the prima
Quite seriously, people who lived in NYC during his tenure have more nuanced
recollections than either of the below.
Charles
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4) Funky late-night experiences with data cells, optical readers and long-gone
software
5) Why IBM's implementation of Posix time zones is flawed
6) Is JCL really that bad?
Charles
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OK, not actually Y2K, just "stupid date handling". I wondered, since 20
years ago meters didn't take cards!
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 11:38 AM Barkow, Eileen
wrote:
> Would you believe that there is still fallout from Y2K. NYC parking meters
> could not accept credit cards because of it.
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We probably should change the subject. Some suggestions:
1) What is the absolute best way to clear a register?
2) Exactly how many cycles does it take to do an LA instruction?
3) Is EBCDIC really that bad?
On 1/3/2020 12:04 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
Was holding the primary for his replacement on
Was holding the primary for his replacement on 9/11/2001, that had to
be postponed.
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:53 PM Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta)
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> You mean the Mayor that killed corruption and the Mafia in Nyc...that idiot ??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Savor
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What a concept . . . holding senior management accountable!
Best regards,
*Jon Bathmaker,*
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SYS1 Consulting Inc.
519-577-9661
On 1/3/2020 12:44 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
On balance, we benefitted from the exercise. A lot of old--still
serviceable--hardware a
You mean the Mayor that killed corruption and the Mafia in Nyc...that idiot ??
Thanks,
Tom Savor
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The current and past idiot Rudolph Guilianni
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OK, bonus homework question: who was mayor of
OK, bonus homework question: who was mayor of New York City in Jan 1, 2000?
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Just came across: ‘Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting’: An Oral History
of Y2K
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a30338692/y2k-panic/
I still have about half the Y2K books I bought, figure they'll go with
the next Great Purge. Circa 1995 I thought of doing "The Y2K Handbook"
My client, https://cloudcompiling.com/, provides a service in which they
"virtualize" a customer's compiles to a remote IBM mainframe. We have two
existing data centers but are looking for an additional backup. We are
looking for someone willing to sell access to a z/OS system. The primary
requirem
On balance, we benefitted from the exercise. A lot of old--still
serviceable--hardware and software got upgraded just cuz. We could never have
budgeted this massive modernization drive just on principle. What gave the
industry impetus was the dark insinuation that if a company fell flat on its
If a company was so shortsighted as to not deal with it decades earlier, then
what's wrong with charging all that the market will bear? The companies that
planned ahead didn't have to spend nearly as much.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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I was changing jobs during that time and my previous employer paid me extra to
be on-site during the Y2K evening. Ended in a yawner.
However, there was a heck of a lot of money made in the tech industry upgrading
everything. Never let a good crisis go to waste seemed to be the reigning
philos
One wonders how reliable their judgement was as to what was needed. The cost of
doing unnecessary remediation was a lot lower than the cost of finding out too
late that it was necessary.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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There were sound reasons to worry about economic chaos, but a total
infrastructure collapse, while conceivable, didn't seem likely. I don't recall
exactly what Alsop predicted.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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"01YY" was certainly a hack, as were rolling windows. Lilian was a much sounder
way to go, where it was feasible.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Joel C. Ewing
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Which JES was the job running under?
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Would you believe that there is still fallout from Y2K. NYC parking meters
could not accept credit cards because of it.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/01/03/software-glitch-knocks-out-credit-card-payments-at-nyc-parking-meter
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Depending on your definition of expired, SEARCHVOLUME should work. Do you mean
scratch or certain expiration dates, etc.? Take a look at the DFSMSrmm Guide
and Reference.
Otherwise, maybe something like following:
SV VOLUME(*) OWNER(*) LIMIT(*) STATUS(SCRATCH)
SV VOLUME(*) OWNER(*) LIMIT(*) R
There were date dependencies in a lot of unexpected places, although some of
them were of minor importance. There was no more reason to believe that
everything was under control than there was to believe in the inevitability of
disaster. Hidden among the hype were some plausible concerns. Frankl
It has long been a hallmark of our profession to over-achieve. We prepared for
Y2K so well that predicted chaos was averted. Even entertaining chaos was rare.
😉
I was personally convinced that we would be 'OK', but I made one particular
concession to the doomsday crowd. I collected a few hundre
Yeah, there was a lot of hype and panic among the uninitiated/unaware. I won't
mention the place, but the company I was working for leading up to Y2K required
us to test coax-to-parallel protocol convertors that were running our printers
off 3174 controllers.
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From: I
Hi Folks,
Regarding my new article, please download File 846 from the Updates
page of www.cbttape.org. When writing the article, I made several fixes
to the file. So please use the Updates page for Files 846 and 312, as
well as for File 120.
All the best of everything to all of you
Hi Folks,
This is to announce a new article, member BM2001JB, which is about
a new technique of backing up and restoring and loading IPL text. The
technique is based on CBT File 846 and it comes from two programs
written by our friend somitcw, and two other programs written by me. A
sim
As far as I can tell (visually, not by actually trying it), SMF89UZT is
expected to, and does, contain the delta from the previous SMF89 record;
it is not intended to be cumulative. I suggest that you take this up with
IBM service if you are truly seeing otherwise.
If you seek a change in IBM c
Correct.
And then I see yesterday on a local news site an article with a suggestive
title like: a lot of fuzz, but hardly any problems really occurred.
The article itself has a little more nuance, but it is still nice food for
title hunters (useful if your business model exists of getting as mu
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, at 00:49, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
> The problem for us was not "how" to fix a single instance of the
> problem, but finding "where" to fix an unknown number of instances of
> the problem in 1000's of lines of in-house code and in associated data sets.
I think how complex this w
I use IBM HOD on Mac and it works fine. I know its a for fee emulator so there
is that. Keyboard mapping is good (I use an external Logitech K750) so I have
right and left control keys for enter and Reset. I’ve never tried graphics so
I don’t know about that option.
Zowe has an emulator that
Why not just run Vista over Wine?
On 2020-01-03 7:18 PM, Joe Monk wrote:
I use ZOC as well. I found Mocha to be lacking.
Joe
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:43 AM Jim Taylor wrote:
I agree with the comments about c3270/x3270 but disagree when you say
there aren't any good macOS emulators - I reall
*That* seems like a lifetime ago...
Kees
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Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today
. . . "Sgt Pepper taught t
. . . "Sgt Pepper taught the band to play" :-)
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 18:26 Chris Hoelscher, wrote:
> Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, other
> times seems like another lifetime .
>
> Thank You,
> Chris Hoelscher| Lead Database Administrator | IBM Global Techn
I use ZOC as well. I found Mocha to be lacking.
Joe
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:43 AM Jim Taylor wrote:
> I agree with the comments about c3270/x3270 but disagree when you say
> there aren't any good macOS emulators - I really like ZOC and found it much
> nicer to user than PComms on my Windows ma
I agree with the comments about c3270/x3270 but disagree when you say there
aren't any good macOS emulators - I really like ZOC and found it much nicer to
user than PComms on my Windows machine.
Jim
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:36:56 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>Unfortunately, x3270 and c3270 real
I am using Mocha tn3270. Was recommended here. The only issue i see is that
it foes not support file xfer ( but i use filezila).
ITschak
בתאריך יום ו׳, 3 בינו׳ 2020, 12:37, מאת David Crayford :
> Unfortunately, x3270 and c3270 really suck! You won't find a native 3270
> emulator on macOS that's
Unfortunately, x3270 and c3270 really suck! You won't find a native 3270
emulator on macOS that's any good. That may change as the web based 3270
emulators get better (Zowe has one).
Guys with Macs in my team use Windows 3270 emulators running on Wine.
There are a few quirks like macOS keyboar
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