Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve"

tis 2022-07-26 klockan 16:19 -0600 skrev Grant Taylor: > On 7/26/22 1:12 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: > > It amazes me how little most laypeople know about IT and how easily > > they are brainwashed into believing the cloud will solve > > everything. > > I was working on a project years ago when I over

Re: IBM Deceived Investors

lör 2022-04-09 klockan 13:26 +1000 skrev Wayne Bickerdike: > Hmm. Sanjay Kumar did some serious jail time for fiddling the books. > Steve > Richards was sent to a dangerous max-security prison. It isnt really my beef, but is Taft correction facility a max-security prison ? Compared with the one in

Re: Holy Moly ...

mån 2022-02-14 klockan 16:19 -0500 skrev Matt Hogstrom: > there is always RetroComputing as well … they love nostalgic > questions > > https://stackoverflow.com/  > https://superuser.com/  > https://serverfault.com/  >

Re: Fall back STP Adjustments

tis 2021-11-02 klockan 07:51 -0500 skrev Paul Gilmartin: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 11:46:56 +0100, Stefan Skoglund wrote: > > > >    ... UTC never changes, it increases monotonically ... > > > Those two statements contradict each other.  And both are > incorrect.  UTC

Re: Fall back STP Adjustments

mån 2021-11-01 klockan 15:09 -0500 skrev Paul Gilmartin: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 12:19:31 -0700, Retired Mainframer wrote: > > > I think the answer is both.  AT 0700 UTC it will be 0200 CDT.  > > After an > > infinitely small interval, it will still be 0700 UTC but will be > > 0100 CST.  At > > the t

Re: even an old mainframer can do it

ons 2021-08-18 klockan 07:27 + skrev kekronbekron: > Exactly, I'm not against improvements; I'm against improvements for > the sake of a bullet point. > > Also, before more folks dial in about the line count... more lines > are fine, as long as it's still legible etc. > In this case, it's all

Re: Experiences

lör 2021-06-26 klockan 14:09 + skrev kekronbekron: > To be honest, your whole post below went right over my head. > > - KB > sorry. Yeah, i read it again ... so: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > With regards to Shark Tank: it is immaterial ie it is only readable from the server only a

Re: Experiences

fre 2021-06-25 klockan 20:54 +0300 skrev ITschak Mugzach: > Computerworld has someone under the name of Shark Tank that tells old > mainframe experience stories. > > Best, > ITschak > > ITschak Mugzach > *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous > Monitoring > for z/OS, x/Lin

Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers]

mån 2021-04-05 klockan 16:30 + skrev Farley, Peter x23353: > True.  There is m4 in *ix systems and going back a long time there > was ML/1 (I think there was an academic book published on that one, I > think I have a copy somewhere around here).  Undoubtedly others I do > not know of or remembe

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

ons 2021-03-17 klockan 10:13 + skrev Seymour J Metz: > Yes, z/OS on z is attractive for a medium or large customer, but it > is priced out of the market for a hobbyist or a "Mom and Pop" > business. The entry cost is much lower for, e.g., openSUSE on a PC. I > miss the days of 80% discounts for

Re: JCL divergence

tis 2020-12-22 klockan 17:57 -0600 skrev John McKown: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:49 PM Seymour J Metz > wrote: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron > > > > > I use CRON a fair amount on Linux at home. And on z/OS at work, for > "personal scheduling". And there's the equivalent "Windows Tas

Re: JCL divergence

tis 2020-12-22 klockan 17:35 -0600 skrev John McKown: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:26 PM Gibney, Dave wrote: > > > WindowsJob...Huh > > > > Right. I am so ignorant, perhaps the Windows (and Linux?) world > doesn't > even have any unattended scheduled activities. I know that there is a > "Win

Re: OT: Federalism and speed limits

ons 2020-08-05 klockan 12:04 -0400 skrev scott Ford: > Bob, > > We drove 130kph + in Switzerland and France when I lived there. > Everyone > was like a low flying jet, but safe, very few accidents. > 130 kph in Switzerland - that is overspeeding, they have a generic max of 120 for motorways (and

Re: Anybody still running a 3270 setup?

fre 2020-08-07 klockan 11:32 -0400 skrev David Spiegel: > 4331/4341/4381 perhaps? > wrong memory (my) He has it connected to a S/390 MultiPrise 2000 (at least when he first got GDDM working) but he do have a 43xx and a 9370 (and more too.)

Re: Anybody still running a 3270 setup?

lör 2020-08-01 klockan 21:14 + skrev Alexander Huemer: > Hi > > Question about 3270, once again. > As you might know, interest in 3270 hardware increased recently, due > to > the emerge of Andrew Kay's oec[0,1]. > I have built the required hardware in order to be able to talk to > the > 3290

Re: Application necessities was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

tor 2020-07-16 klockan 23:12 -0300 skrev Clark Morris: > > And will they have an adequate test mechanism for both online and > batch? The hardest part of my job where I worked was getting a > coordinated set of test data that I could use as a base. I also have > come to the conclusion that the w

Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

fre 2020-07-17 klockan 14:05 + skrev Barkow, Eileen: > For those not aware of this IBM has been offering free web COBOL > classes and have been getting hundreds of people in attendance, many > of whom are new mainframe programmers. > They are also offering a free class on the IDZ/Data Studio >

Re: Using NTP

tor 2020-07-16 klockan 07:28 + skrev Gadi Ben-Avi: > Hi, > > I was asked to make sure that the mainframes are using the same time > source as the rest of the computers on our network. > I know what the NTP servers are in our network. > > In the HMC, I found 'Customize Console Date/Time' > I a

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

mån 2020-06-22 klockan 14:05 -0600 skrev Grant Taylor: > On 6/22/20 1:09 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > Also, if I could post an image to this list, I would show what a > > standard IBM phase rotation sensor looks like. I have a box of > > them. > > > > They are basically just relays with three

Re: LzLabs

sön 2020-05-03 klockan 04:45 + skrev Mike Schwab: > Just one county, Germany. 1400KM, 12 hours drive. > County ?? Country really, but hmmm 12 hours drive don't think so. It would mean average 120 km/h at autobahn and when the current problems ends usually with a fair amount of traffic ie St