Re: HLASM Developer - Full-time, direct hire - 100% Remote

2022-07-12 Thread David Crayford
I think the salary may be $144kAUD. If not, I need to ask for a pay rise :) On 13/07/2022 1:37 am, Tommy Phillips wrote: Hi Everybody, I have a job opportunity (full-time, direct hire and remote) I wanted to share with you all. My client is an international software company looking for a

Reading MCDS ML2 Tape on a different Lpar? Possible?

2022-07-12 Thread fred glenlake
Hello Listers, I have a small remote site that we are upgrading the physical tape library to a virtual TS7700 library. All went well until the old library had a serious hardware error. My leadership has decided not to spend the money to repair the old failed library (of course now out of

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York TimesThat'

2022-07-12 Thread David Crayford
That’s awesome. Did maintenance programmers really exist back then? > On 13 Jul 2022, at 8:13 am, Charles Mills wrote: > > Sorry 'bout the link. How about > > https://bit.ly/3z2y5XO > > Charles > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York TimesThat'

2022-07-12 Thread Charles Mills
Sorry 'bout the link. How about https://bit.ly/3z2y5XO Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software

DUMPs protection question

2022-07-12 Thread Peter Relson
IEAABD.DMPAUTH processing is very different than IEAABD.DMPAKEY. > I assume the answer is YES, but I want to be sure. That is not a good assumption. It happens to be true for IEAABD.DMPAUTH. It is not true for IEAABD.DMPAKEY (which applies only when the abend occurred in key 0-7). They were

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York TimesThat'

2022-07-12 Thread Charles Mills
Or as I said in 1974 https://books.google.com/books?id=XrgyMRVh128C=PA16=Zc1NP23_DN=co mputerworld%20cobol%20charles%20mills=PA16 Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Re: NIST Announced Quantum-Safe Cryptographic Standards

2022-07-12 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 01:08, Timothy Sipples wrote: > The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced > four algorithms as new NIST standards in quantum-safe cryptography. [...] > The significance of this NIST announcement is that you can (and should) start >

Re: NIST Announced Quantum-Safe Cryptographic Standards

2022-07-12 Thread Rob Schramm
I am so glad that dilithium crystals are providing protection for the future. Long live Star Trek. Rob On Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 01:08 Timothy Sipples wrote: > The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has > announced four algorithms as new NIST standards in quantum-safe >

HLASM Developer - Full-time, direct hire - 100% Remote

2022-07-12 Thread Tommy Phillips
Hi Everybody, I have a job opportunity (full-time, direct hire and remote) I wanted to share with you all. My client is an international software company looking for a HLASM developer to work remotely from the pacific time zone (for overlap with a team based in Australia). The pay is around

Re: ISFSLASH, MGCRE? ...?

2022-07-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:31:00 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >This is a case of documentation attempting to replicate information in other >documentation. Even when the author gets it right initially, the documentation >is always at risk of being blindsided by future changes. I see this all of the

Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it?

2022-07-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:56:35 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >JCL is quite consistent; an unquoted space terminates the field. > If that space is preceded by a comma, doesn't it indicate a continuation? But perhaps I misunderstand the definition of "field". -- gil

Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it?

2022-07-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
JCL is quite consistent; an unquoted space terminates the field. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Monday, July 11,

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York TimesThat'

2022-07-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
That's a lesson that they learned on Multics way back one; worry about the design first. During an I/O redesign, they wrote PL/I code to replace code originally written in ALM (assembler), and the PL/I version was faster. Not because of the compiler, but because of the improved design. --

Re: ISFSLASH, MGCRE? ...?

2022-07-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
This is a case of documentation attempting to replicate information in other documentation. Even when the author gets it right initially, the documentation is always at risk of being blindsided by future changes. I see this all of the time in IBM documentation that (incorrectly) gives rules for

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York Times

2022-07-12 Thread David Crayford
On 12/07/2022 12:21 am, Charles Mills wrote: +1 And when new hardware comes out, taking advantage of the new architecture is a simple matter of updating ARCH() in your C/C++ compile and re-building. You probably don't have the appetite to re-work your carefully hand-tuned assembler. +1 you