is stream oriented, not record oriented, and shell syntax is molded
to that.
There are shell features like "here documents" (google it) which you've
probably never used that would get broken if input to the USS shell got
arbitrarily broken into lines to suit the flavor of MVS/T
On 5/12/20 9:28 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I also want them in Linux for Z, but that may already be here.
You do know that you can get a free LPAR for 90 days and explore what's
there and what's not yourself, right?
https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-linuxone/gettingstarted/
On 5/12/20 9:28 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I also want them in Linux for Z, but that may already be here.
z/Linux has pretty much everything. Did some heavy lifting there. What
wasn't there I could build, with some work.
Essence of Open Source: You are part of the solution.
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n favor of nicely structured code others can maintain.
PHP can be like that, if written correctly.
If you want unmaintainable spaghetti, though, there's nothing quite like
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PHP is for them.
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p with the ever-evolving technology of web design.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide
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minutes a day twice a week for the next two years the way projects are
bumbled through in a modern understaffed data center?
Nah, PHP for choice.
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airly complex sites on a short budget.
If that's not your beat, then PHP is not your language.
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On 5/9/20 7:53 PM, David Crayford wrote:
No it’s not it’s a terrible language
Oh, don't be such a siwwy wabbit. It's a lot of fun. Despite its flaws
and obscurity, it's a lot of fun to code in and widely used in the IBM i
world, which I mostly inhabit these days.
-
masterfully designed, mature language, easy to learn, with
huge community module support including scientific programming.
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On 5/9/20 1:59 PM, scott Ford wrote:
Personally, I think *sometimes people write in what they know.
It's good to get outside your zone sometimes. If you decide to do so,
both Python and Go are good choices!
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only serious competition in the wide world for Node.js for
authoring microservices.
The New York Times web is built entirely on Go-coded microservices.
Attended when the project leaders spoke at Denver Gophers on the subject.
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the
best traits of both and the warts removed.
Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson were on the design team. One of those "If we
had known then what we know now" moments for the fathers of C.
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profile in your home directory .profile
that does exec /bin/bash
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On 5/3/20 11:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Yah, but I wished it had presumed something minimal such as TTY33
until I could EXPORT TERM and/or set TERMINFO.
Put it in your .profile or .bash_profile or whatever.
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somewhere.
If not bash, use tcsh
Also:
export TERM=xterm
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Java -> C compilers went away.
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On 4/22/20 9:56 AM, Lionel B Dyck wrote:
it is actually old enough to drink:
It's not that long until MVS itself is old enough to collect social
security ...
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ight?
His son asked him, "What did you bring that book I didn't want to be
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problem.
I pointed out there were probably at least 200 bash programmers in
America for every Rexx programmer.
Lost that argument.
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On 4/9/20 6:02 AM, John McKown wrote:
JCL should ignore
case when not in ticks.
Dragging z/OS kicking and screaming into the late 1970's.
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en't, and
some non-scientists are.
And it's salutary to remember that it was uttered by the man dubbed
"BHA" by the engineers at Apple Computer :)
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On 4/8/20 3:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
From another list:
https://forms.business.nj.gov/tech/
Thanks, Paul
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On 4/7/20 2:22 AM, R.S. wrote:
You forgot about third person in a car: Ohm.
Officer say "you're arrested", but Ohm resists.
Thank you Radoslaw ... Even though I had forgotten, I should have known
he was there by inductive reasoning!
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r the car and asks Schrödinger if the two men have
anything in the trunk.
"A cat," Schrödinger replies.
The cop opens the trunk and yells "Hey! This cat is dead."
Schrödinger angrily replies, "Well he is now."
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On 4/6/20 12:34 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I am not going to murder a poor defenseless kitten just for a CS class!
It's not *certain* the kitty becomes an ex-cat ... :)
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On 4/6/20 11:47 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I would start bottom up from the gates, which can be built with radically different
technologies, e.g., Vacuum tubes ("valves") versus hydraulic logic.
You Are All Obsolete <https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/> :)
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Thanks, volunteers on hand and waiting and I seem to be back on the list :)
On 4/5/20 5:13 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
From: Jack J. Woehr [j...@well.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 6:40 PM
To: Seymour J Metz
Subject: COBOL NJ
Suddenly my mail to IBM
On 4/4/20 1:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
And it works. Gasp!
Congrats! With our continued effort, your and my $2500 Macs will come to
approximate the usefulness of a $550 Linux box.
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On 4/4/20 12:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Works. Doesn't have nearly the Fonts I'm accustomed to on UNIX.
*/opt/local/bin/xset fp+ /opt/local/lib/x3270/fonts/*
Assuming that's where you installed x3270
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ebrew/homebrew-core/issues/46519
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On 4/4/20 9:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I tried building x3270 on Mojave from source.
Also, x3270 is in the Mac Ports tree. https://www.macports.org/
Install Mac Ports and then:
sudo port
install x3270
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On 4/4/20 9:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I tried building x3270 on Mojave from source. Failed with:
538 $ make
did you ./configure first? http://x3270.bgp.nu/Build.html
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On 3/30/20 9:49 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
I had a version of Forth on my 48K Sinclair Spectrum. Get one word wrong
and back to the start!
I had a Forth for z/VM in assembler source that I ran for a while ...
Wrote several myself at various times, for 80x86, 68xxx, 80196, etc.
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favor.
But as a scripting language to be coronated as "strategic" by IBM on
legacy platforms, z and i, it's the best choice. Sez me, take that :)
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k with very limited ability to even make
a request to expand the scope of those boxes.
Been there, done that. But IBM is trying to help expand the walls of
that particular golden cage by marking Python "strategic". Let's see if
that makes a diff.
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On 3/30/20 7:30 AM, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
If you’re trying to decide which to learn, look at the community around each
language and decide which one fits you better.
Sound advice.
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Python in IBM *nix environments (IBM
i Pase & z/OS USS) is, in the immortal words of Joe Biden, a BFD :)
On 3/30/20 6:15 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-03-30 12:24 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
On 3/29/20 9:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python,
On 3/29/20 9:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python,
Ruby is close to dead these days, whereas Python is growing by leaps and
bounds.
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ou to flip out and delete it from your phone."
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Better and sounder module support.
Math, math, math but not about math.
Supported by a huge, lively, and leading-edge user/developer community.
You're going to love Python on z/OS. It's revolutionizing IBM i.
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01889
The amusing part is I get no hits on hashtag #zOS ... where /are/ you
all? :)
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On 3/27/20 4:28 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
What's a nerd to do? LUA, Rexx or Python?
Python. It's moving forward, great module support, easy syntax.
There's no advantage to REXX anymore, as fine a language as it is.
Python is taking over IBM i where I work.
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Windows and talk to it ?
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home/digestviewer
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ve an application running on a licensed installation.
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On 1/8/20 10:53 AM, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
from wikipedia: 1908, Third National Bank and Fifth National Bank merged to
become the Fifth-Third National Bank of Cincinnati;
The fellow who came up with that name musta done so late at night when
he was on his third 5th.
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the POSIX shell?
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standard C
compiler, fopen() is there and documented everywhere.
E.g.,
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/Code/Standard_C_Library/Functions/fopen
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ol and RPG
programmers in the IBM i community ...
Not like you have to learn new skills. Just new old skills :)
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https://common.inloop.com/en/article/110960
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products.
An archaism of C that remains because old *nix programs use or used them.
Legacy of the era of expensive RAM.
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On 7/17/19 11:19 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
Is anyone here in a position to encourage / facilitate Homebrew on Mac to
move x3270 on from 3.6ga5 to 3.6ga8?
Someone already did. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/42020
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In Python, which runs in USS, I believe:
|fromdatetime importdatetime day_of_year =datetime.now().timetuple().tm_yday|
On 6/5/2019 7:39 AM, Mike Schwab wrote:
Here is a tiny little Day of Year spreadsheet I did about 35 years ago
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economizing, it's to put the money where it really counts,
e.g., into IBM Q <https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/>, which is the future.
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ource".
Tom has the correct interpretation of the GPL.
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PORN OVER HERE!"
Such constitutes the ONLY legitimate business case for introducing
Outlook into the enterprise!
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https://www.bigendiansmalls.com/
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And you can be part of it for free! :)
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/
On 3/21/2019 6:14 AM, Mark Regan wrote:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3373550/quantum-computing-will-break-your-encryption-in-a-few-years.html
https://tinyurl.com/y4ddvsm2
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mainframes.
https://www.bigendiansmalls.com/
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tream open source
projects like JBoss are fairly rare and usually caught quickly.
o Are you checking signatures correctly when you download and
install stuff to make sure you have the real goods?
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the most fairly with the open source community, period.
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oin a concertina band, right? :)
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character data and does ASCII/EBCDIC
translation on it.
You have to use SFTP on z/OS to transfer binary data.
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On 12/7/2018 9:59 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-sells-software-portfolio-including-notes-and-domino-to-hcl-for-1-8b/
I think it's wonderful they got so much money for it.
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ww
IND$FILE clearly is short for
*I* *N*eed to *D*ownload this *$*#!% *FILE*
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On 11/7/2018 10:51 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I does and it doesn't. No one could claim that z/OS was an initialism for
zero-down-time operating system.
All us francophones understand ... it ees seemply ze OS.
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I-->EBCDIC conversion?
SFTP does bin or character mode.
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IBM i.
You have to use SFTP which is OpenSSH-as-FTP, same security and key
management as SCP, for binary xfers.
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On 9/1/2018 12:57 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I suspect something weird on my employer's PC but what is the question.
Windows has a shared disk assigned but not available. Delete the share.
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years now." - Geertjan Wielenga, senior
principal product manager at Oracle for NetBeans, InfoQ interview
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/netbeans-apache-update-aug18
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On July 16, 2018 at 3:23 PM Edward Gould
wrote:
I will
have to find some other outlet.
CHESS!!
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On 7/4/2018 11:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
JCL has numerous restrictions and inconsistencies due to antiquity,
IBM i supports Cobol. Come on down :)
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On 6/14/2018 8:53 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
ALL z/OS V2R1 CONTENT WAS REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET BY IBM!! DO A
GOOGLE SEARCH, AND NONE OF THE LINKS WORK!!
Stop whining and buy a used Power8 and install IBM i 7.3, "What z/OS
should have been and never was" :)
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On 5/25/2018 1:21 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
Father of economics of sub-second response time; wonderful
SHARE/mainframe/computing contributor.
Read that old paper and realized we've gone backwards from the mainframe
... as I wait for my JIRA ticket to load ...
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On 5/1/2018 11:55 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler.
Or FORTH or m4
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On 4/23/2018 10:03 AM, John McKown wrote:
especially
with respect to doing development off-platform.
Just mount them via NFS to your Linux development machine and use them
in NetBeans that way.
I'm a NetBeans user since the 1990's myself :)
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just do the regex inline in
main() in which case you need no dtor, or put the flags instantiation
inside the Regex Object.
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prove it if you write the equivalent code on your home Linux box
and it blows up there, too.
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n a little it will "magically"
start working.
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On 4/8/2018 1:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
Thanks, but won't work well in the real code.
I just meant as a debugging step. Make it work, then make it break again
and you're home.
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On 4/8/2018 1:04 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
It do. The error message is ABEND=S0C4 U REASON=0004.
Try initializing the regex in the declaration instead of doing it in
main() via pointer-to-reference;
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This IBM stockholder is waiting for IBM to step away from Laura Ingraham
sponsorship.
Apologies for inserting politics into the technical discussion, but see
no other equally effective venue to express my disappoinment.
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http://rescue1130.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/historical-recreationrestoration-of.html
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oc/source/whats_new.rst>
What’s New?
** OpenCobolIDE is no longer maintained **
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On 2/8/2018 5:01 AM, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote:
The new owners didn't want to be in the fulfillment business so they're moving
all Time Inc fulfillment activities to their current service provider
I've found Time Magazine unfulfilling for a number of years already ...
om/surveys/RSH_Consulting__RACF_Survey_074__Age&Role_RACF-L_Participants.pdf
80.7% over 50 extending into their 70's. That gives me hope. I'm on the
"Work Until You Drop" retirement plan myself ...
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to service discontinuance, to people asking on
IBM-MAIN for help with CECs
that have been out of support for a decade or more ... :)
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On 1/14/2018 11:35 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
REXX doesn't have a goto
Sure it does: SIGNAL
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odern coding fun is reticence.
If nothing less orthodox appeals to one, LE C/C++ is very nicely done.
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Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine und
On 1/13/2018 4:04 PM, John McKown wrote:
Well, given the responses to my thread on "z/OS and C", I'd say that
"something better" is desired.
It's called Go. https://golang.org/
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Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
es with it but no z/VM?
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Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
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On 1/13/2018 1:53 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
My experience is: C++ is VERY unsafe, because memory leaks are
omnipresent
with C++.
I would respectfully disagree with that statement
Me, too. My experience is: Weak programmers can make BASIC and LOGO leak
memory :)
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On 1/12/2018 3:05 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
To really "B Sharp", call it "C Sharp" like the folks at Microsoft.
B Sharp is C :)
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On 12/14/2017 7:25 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
All the make tools share an annoying reliance on tab characters.
This is somehow more pernicious than punch-card-column dependencies in
traditional IBM tools? :)
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On 11/30/2017 8:07 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
This poor mangled quote...
Watson was specifically referring to one specific model of machine,
not computers in general.
I never let truth get in the way of a good story! :)
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