Hey Listers
Thank you for that Cheryl. It is indeed a worrying time when this happens.
One of the best methods to get some attention in my view is to use the
endeavors of Timothy Sipples. He seems to have the ear of anyone and everyone
that matters! He has been extremely helpful to me in getti
My sympathies and condolences to you and to Gerhard's family. He was a stalwart
of IBM-MAIN, and will be sorely missed by all.
Best regards
Aled L Hughes
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From: Seymour J Metz
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 4:01
Subject: Gerhard Postpischil ז״ל
It is with
You and me both Lennie
"Abby is a seasoned marketing and public relations professional."
Reminds me that a journalist called Ruth Sunderland was on the radio the other
day stating that the airline British Airways (after a failure) "is riddled with
old systems that have been in place for ma
Thanks for sharing that Clark. It is disturbing in some ways that an ex IBMer
appears tobe running down mainframes. As Timothy Sipples mentioned, he based
his theoryon an article in the Economist - a left-wing journal in the UK, and
I'm afraid that I doubt if any of their journalists understan
I agree. I worked in an open plan office for years in the US, and it was a
regal pain trying to speak another language with a prospect while hearing other
people speaking English in the background. The worst offenders were the ones
who insisted on using speaker-phones! I resorted to starting wor
All the very best Ed, you will be missed on IBM-MAIN.
Aled L Hughes
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According to ‘sources’, they moved to an SAP environment – went off the
mainframe. I have to wonder why IBM allowed this sort of folly to happen. CEOs
were encouraged to stay with IBM. And all this happened because of a power
failure? Methinks they speak with forked tongues!
Sent from my Window
Thanks for your efforts Mark. The address is a Mail Box, and his phone is a
cell phone. But as Elardus says, he's well known and has a criminal record.
People like him give religion a bad name!
Cheers!
ALH
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From: Mark Post
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Mon, Dec 26,
I think you are right Phil. I recall the P70 purely for PWD customers. This was
essentially replaced by FLEX (which sold in their hundreds) for PWD and
Commercial users worldwide. Sadly 'killed off' by IBM after the Platform
Solutions debacle.
Cheers!
ALH
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F
John McKown wrote:
I use two forms. I personally prefer the -mm-dd format
(RCF3339/ISO8601), bugs the crud out of people at work. But I use "dd mon
" on my checks. Great for human reading, lousy for computer processing.
You still use checks John? I haven't used one in about 10 y
I'm with Skip here. And while we're at it, why do companies/people still insist
on putting out these idiotic "legal notices" which seem to hold no relevance in
law anywhere, or any relevance to anything.
It's just 'noise'! (And clutters up emails!)
ALH
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From
Tesco is the largest supermarket in the UK, selling virtually everything. Their
latest addition is the ZFrame.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/zframe-2x4-wheel-medium-purple-suitcase/419-5437.prd?skuId=419-5437
One of my buddies has already bought one, and I think I'll get one too!
I wonder if IB
"There seems to be confusion in the Colonies.";-)
I have known Trevor a long time, and I believe his tongueis firmly in his cheek
in this situation. In other words, this (to me) is aclassic bit of British
humor which has to be read in that context. To me, itcertainly reflects what I
suspect is
Hi Mohamed
What you are asking is what companies normally pay consultancy fees for. This
is not a 'quick' task that can be put together on a PDF. There are so many
questions that come to mind about your own environment and your requirements.
My best advice is if you've never done it, don't e
Banks, financial organizations, retailers and other companies who depend on
reliable information tend to use mainframes. In the case of Google, Facebook
etc, if they give an erroneous result, it is not a major catastrophe.
Just my two pennyworth here.
ALH
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From:
Just to be the awkward one here: the use of 's for plural is grammatically
incorrect, personally I don't care if it is universally accepted - it is wrong
and should be avoided. It is on a par with the misuse of examples such as
'their' when meaning 'there' and 'here, here' when 'hear, hear' is m
Thanks for the info Tony, and Lindy reminded me of John's wife's name. Sadly,
Mrs. Gilmore (Kate) passed away in January last year. She was an author.
https://www.sfsite.com/news/2015/01/13/obituary-kate-gilmore/
She also had her own website: http://www.kategilmore.net/
We can only hope tha
Best of luck Shane - enjoy your time, and don't think twice about us lot still
slaving over z/OS ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Shane Ginnane
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 9:47
Subject: So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
Shane ...
Just chip, Martin. I got a new chip card last week and used it at Tesco in the
UK. Sure, it had to read the chip and could not be swiped, but no PIN, just
sign as usual and compare signatures - seems the Brits are much more stringent
in checking signatures on cards than in the US.
ALH
This reminds me a bit of that great Movie 'Space Cowboys'. (Made when Hollywood
still had real stars!)
ALH
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From: Scott Ford
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:40
Subject: Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager •
Job For Shane?
For those of you who don't know, Talk Talk is a major Broadband/Phone provider
in the UK with over 4 million customers who has been hacked. Seems ALL the
customers details have been gleaned (see list in the article).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34611857
I've listened to some "security experts
;-)
-Original Message-
From: Shane Ginnane
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 11:11
Subject: Re: T-Mobile Data Hacked
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:54:40 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:
> But blaming
mainframes is the choice of these journalistic experts isn't
it?
>
>Sad.
I have to wonder how long before the media start to blame 'old
legacy/hardware/software/mainframes' on this situation. No further information
has been declared yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34420879
Experian do use a myriad of back/front office systems as well as mainframes.
How abo
All the best Mark, and if you do "retire", I know that the fishing off Gandy
Bridge is great!
ALH
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From: Mark Jacobs - Listserv
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:45
Subject: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
This is the last week that Time Inc empl
I recall a presentation by IBM Executives all those years back about the 'New
Era of Computing' (or something corny like that). One presenter mentioned that
there were other PCs around, but the IBM one had three things going for it over
the others:
I
B
M
And the PCs of this world still haven't
OK, Ed! But to me, who has spent most of his life by the coast, a beach has
sea, sand and ice cream stands! ;-)
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From: Ed Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:27
Subject: Re: Silent IBM-MAIN?
Define b
"Probably enjoying the beach."
Last time I looked, Orlando is at least 50 miles from the nearest beach as the
crow flies, but with the recent rain in Florida, perhaps you are right Ed!
ALH
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From: Ed Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
To
Protection
>Or am I naive in thinking that this is a for real and not a scam?
No.
Marco has posted a number of RACF questions previously.
--
Donald J.
dona...@4email.net
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015, at 03:04 AM, Aled Hughes wrote:
>
Marco, I have to ask in John McEnroe's famous w
Marco, I have to ask in John McEnroe's famous words - "you cannot be serious".
I admit no one has commented so far, but that is to be expected. Are you really
that naive? Or am I naive in thinking that this is a for real and not a scam?
"Security Consultant" should be a clue.
Duh.
Is it Fr
Seymour J Metz said,
"How do I know that yopu exist?" (sic)
I felt I had to reply to this. Contrary to your somewhat puerile comment
Seymour, Timothy DOES exist. I have had some excellent advice from him over the
years which didn't necessarily involve purchasing more IBM H/W and/or S/W.
I wo
Thanks for that Shane - scary!
Your link didn't work for me, but I traced the article to this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31916942
Cheers!
Aled
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From: Shane Ginnane
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:47
Subject: More big brother/big
-Original Message-
From: Shane Ginnane
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:28
Subject: Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T.
development
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:08:12 -0500, Aled Hughes wrote:
>Allegedly, 65 - 70% of the world's data is held o
What amazed me was that the President of the US invited the heads of Microsoft,
Google and Apple to a meeting to discuss systems security! These are the people
that essentially caused the problem in the first place. And why wasn't IBM
invited? Allegedly, 65 - 70% of the world's data is held on m
Based upon this statement:
''which suggests a service such as Google Cloud, Microsoft One Drive, or
Dropbox was utilized to reduce chances of detection.''
I would suggest they are not a M/F shop.
In my view, any company that would trust their data to the above deserve what
they get. Why isn't
It still won't work for me. Perhaps it's because I'm in the Olde Worlde right
now. I talked to a colleague in Florida and it worked fine there. Must be the
lack of heat here!
I shall store it for 'later viewing'.
Thanks for all your efforts, much appreciated.
Cheers
ALH
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Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 3:27 P
Thanks Ed, but even your expertise didn't make it better. Shucks.
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From: Ed Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:10
Subject: Re: Twelve different companies IBM has been (watch the wrap)
Well, you could
Thanks Gil. Unfortunately, it only goes up to the second pic. Maybe it's me...
ALH
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From: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 17:50
Subject: Re: Twelve different companies IBM has been (watch the w
Oh come on everybody. Lighten up - it's only a game after all!
*Ducks*
ALH
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From: Linda
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 2:36
Subject: Re: OT: Friday joke :-)
Almost. At the point in time you describe, it would be a FULLY inflated ball.
Linda
Sent fr
Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:35
Subject: Re: COBOL Programmers In Demand?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:37:01 -0500, Aled Hughes wrote:
>According to the UK's Daily Mail, COBOL programmers are commanding 'big money'
especially some of the retired ones. I suspect some of the so-called salaries
According to the UK's Daily Mail, COBOL programmers are commanding 'big money'
especially some of the retired ones. I suspect some of the so-called salaries
are contractor rated. £50,000 (about US $76K) works out at less than £200 a
day. The actual going rate seems to be about £400 a day absolut
What I don't understand is that IBM are paying $1.5 bn to GlobalFoundries...
shouldn't it be the other way, or is my understanding of the laws of economics
on shaky grounds?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29689344
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From: John McKown
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: M
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From: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 16:42
Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:00:29 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:
>Gil, I'm not sur
s -- no, wait, what?
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:40:57 -0400, Aled Hughes wrote:
>Thanks Mike, but I believe that is shown only in the US.
Us mere mortals in the Olde Worlde get no such gems. And that is quite a good
ad
as ads go.
>
VPN might be your friend here. There are commercial serv
, wait, what?
Somebody stole the servers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Aled Hughes
<0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated!
>
> Now, why don't IBM use
Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated!
Now, why don't IBM use this information to advertize their wares? If I was in
IBM 'marketing', this would be broadcast on TV ads and newspaper ads! Please
wake up the IT world to good news, IBM, and 'share the word'! Wouldn't it be in
IBM's int
Personally, I thought there was only one English as she is spoken by HM!
I spent 20 years in the US trying to teach Americans to speak English
properly... but failed :-(
And John - ow she cuttin dere by'e - there's always Newfoundland English!!!
-Original Message-
From: John Abe
Thanks for that Shane! I share your sentiments about Timothy's rendition, but I
wonder if Al and Cheryl can clarify what IBM actually mean. Seriously, I hold
Timothy's contributions in very high regard. But.
Sorry Timothy, but, today, my mind bogleth. I may be stupid, but I have yet to
unde
Back in the early '80s, I was told that IBM's Model Range for the 3083 - E, B
and J - used the initial letter of the Product Managers' last names for the
models. Anyone know if this was true?
ALH
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From: zMan
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:53
Subject:
Hi Miklos
Try this link
http://www-05.ibm.com/innovation/uk/watson/watson_in_healthcare.shtml
Schöne Grüße
ALH
-Original Message-
From: Miklos Szigetvari
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 8:59
Subject: OT:Watson supercomputer by the IBM and the cancer research
Hi
T
I also have Firefox 27.0.1. Got a message that my Java needed updating, so
being a trusting soul, I did it. Found my home page had changed to Conduit.com,
and very few of my usual favorites worked, with messages like 'This website
does not support encryption', even from my bank! Then the message
I've spent several hours reading news reports from far and wide about this much
anticipated development.
What I would like to know is, what does this now mean to IBM's core business.
More importantly, what is IBM's core business? Do I detect that System z is
becoming more important? Mrs Rometty
I have to agree, zMan.
It's important for IBM (in their view) to be seen to be 'keeping up with
technology/trends'. And as 'cloud' seems to be a major 'marketing' word/ploy
right now, journalists etc are lapping it up. Few of them have ever heard of
mainframes, or they believe the 'experts' tha
As so stated by Mr Gilmore, Ed's typo was obvious.
As to getting a reply, I have my doubts. Ed's comments about/to Darren have
often been rude, or as Elardus more politely put it:
I even don't know how they will reply to you in a friendly way... ;-)
Sorry Ed, but you need to lighten up or thi
Personally, never held much store on anything that Gartner ever said or
commented on since the mid-80s. I doubt if they know what a 'mainframe' is or
can do these days.
On that note, I wish y'all a 'Blwyddyn Newydd Dda' as we say in Wales.
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From: Ed Finnell
Just a quick note from the Olde Worlde... We hear about SHARE and WAVV which
are excellent conferences, and then we do not hear enough about the European
events. Just had the GSE UK meeting, and the last time I attended in 2008,
there were about 190 people there. This year, it was 460+. Yeah, th
Digression. In my then neighborhood in London (UK), I was the only one who
bought Betamax, the quality was so much better than VHS as Gil said (but I
couldn't get too many movies!). It also had the advantage that my house was one
of the few that was not broken into and have their VCR stolen!
Ba
Amen Mr. Gilmore, wise words as ever.
But if one reads Mr Wheeler's oft repeated arduous comments, I have to wonder
how anyone else in IBM invented/developed anything without his assistance, and
how IBM survived the 80s. How they survive today without his knowledge and
expertise is beyond my c
ve an unfair advantage in the
> competition for the village with the longest name in the world.
>
> Kees.
>
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Aled Hughes
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 14:56
> To:
Shmuel
Just for your information, the Welsh language does not have a 'q' in it.
Nor does it have 'j', 'k', 'v', 'x' or 'z'.
But, we do have many more 'letters' which are combinations of letters, such
examples being 'ch', 'dd', 'ff', 'll', 'ng, and 'ph'.
ALH
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Hi Mark
Congratulations, excellent video and overview! Wish I could have been there!
Maybe this year... I'll give you a definite maybe!
Hope your family are keeping well!
Cheers
Aled
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From: Mark Wilson
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:03
Subject: UK: 201
All the very best to you and your family Eric!
ALH
-Original Message-
From: Eric Bielefeld
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 10:26 am
Subject: My Last Days as a Sysprog
I'm finally calling it quits. I have this week off, and then I work 2 more
weeks. Then I will retire.
Don
The 'analysts' are wrong!
This biased article appeared on the BBC who is not known for any
opinion/expertise about IBM mainframes - you will also note that no 'person' is
attributed to authoring this article. It also quotes Pund-IT who also seem to
know nothing about mainframes. Finally, w
A rather rude and totally unwarranted comment, Don.
Personally, I have always welcomed John Gilmore's comments. His command of the
English language (and other languages) puts most of us to shame as does his
knowledge and wisdom.
Don, an apology would not be amiss. Perhaps one is having a bad
Yes, indeed, very sad news. I spoke to Rick last year, and he was very helpful.
A great loss.
Aled
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From: Thomas H Puddicombe
To: IBM-MAIN
Sent: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:45
Subject: Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman
No apologies necessary, Shane. All of us who had any i
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