Sorry, but I am not interested in changing employment.
Tom
On 3/30/2023 1:40 PM, Dave Jousma wrote:
All,
I have a new job posting for Mainframe Storage Management/Sysprog position that
can be seen here:
but this is an IBM product.
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Thomas Kern
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Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value]
I haven't seen the inside of Waterloo
I haven't seen the inside of Waterloo Script macros for al LONG time. It
will take me a while to get back into reading/debugging this just like
working with COBOL.
Tom
On 3/28/2023 10:50 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
Are you sure this is a program and not the result of a cat dancing a jig on
with Windows-only people.
/Tom Kern
On 12/22/2022 12:24 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 00:38, Thomas Kern wrote:
I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began
writing Data Center Operation manuals using it.
Is an executable for it available anywhere?
If so
Showing my age...
I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began
writing Data Center Operation manuals using it.
I even wrote a Resignation Memo with it. For a while, I did have a 1600
BPI tape with both WSCRIPT and my 'resign script a0' file. Later I found
that 2
think you are.” - - - John Wooden
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Subject: Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe
consoles.
We had Windows PCs
We had Windows PCs as consoles for our ICC. All of them were not on the
real network, so no regular Windows updates. Once a month, we took a
long Ethernet cable and connected each console PC to the real network
and updated Windows and then reconnected to the ICC. Not too hard to do.
/Tom
I use one of these PI units at home for my bedroom when I have to be
laid up after surgery. It is small, and efficient. It can get a bit
warm, I don't have a fan for mine, but you can get them.
They even have a mounting so that it attaches to the back of a monitor
via the VESA mounting holes.
Their bosses bought the propaganda and trashed their mainframes and
spent lots of money to run everything on Windows.
/Tom Kern
On 2022-03-20 13:35, Bill Johnson wrote:
I would venture to say many mainframe workers left the platform because of the
naysayers predicting the demise of the
I have done both. The difference in configuration was that when the MVS
and VM systems were on the same physical system with MVS running under
VM, we submitted to the virtual reader. When the systems were on
separate physical systems, we used RSCS. Eventually, we moved to using
RSCS as the job
In my mainframe career, I used DYLAKOR, Eztrieve, Earl and SAS. This one
looks even better. If I still had access to a z/OS system, I would get
the 30 day free trial just to see how good it really is.
I would have two requests for the vendor: Can you provide a z/VM
version? Can you provide a
Unless the migration away from Physical Tape was done by people
completely unfamiliar with Mainframe processing
Change 'tape' to 'Virtual Tape Subsystem Objects'
Although we used the DRVendor's floor system to run the restore, we
could have had them 'mount' our DR z/VM or DR z/OS system
My view is:
"You can write Fortran in any language, badly."
/Tom Kern
On 05/10/2020 10:13, Seymour J Metz wrote:
"You can write Fortran in any language."
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35 years ago, I started teaching Dept of Energy sysprogs that with
proper communications, there were only three things we could not do.
1) mount / unmount tapes on tape drives
2) tear paper off the printer
3) press the power button
When we finally got rid of the Mainframe last August, there
My condolences.
/Tom Kern
/former z/VM Systems Programmer
On 10/02/2019 13:56, Honeycutt,Mary C wrote:
Hi All,
After 47 years, The University of Florida, Has shut down our Mainframe.
Thanks,
Cathy Honeycutt
Systems Admin/Programmer III
720 SW 2nd Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32603
They were running MVS and VM with an MVT mentality.
/Tom
On 08/22/2019 19:16, David Spiegel wrote:
Hi Tom,
In 1985, who was running MVT?
Regards,
David
On 2019-08-22 19:05, Thomas Kern wrote:
Thirty-four years ago I taught my Federal customers (MVT sysprogs)
that there were three things I
Thirty-four years ago I taught my Federal customers (MVT sysprogs) that
there were three things I could not do once I had proper communications.
1) I could not mount tapes
2) I could not tear paper off the printers
3) I could not press the Power button
Now we no longer have mainframe attached
On 07/22/2019 12:07, retired mainframer wrote:
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To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Friday!
I almost remember how to do it on an IBM 1620
Simply the best machine
Another consideration is how many times the compressed file would be
transferred. We used to host lots of documents on our mainframe to be
served out on a website. When the transfer load became noticeable on the
performance reports, we started compressing the most common documents.
The
I was thinking that generating the random dates in Julian format
(15001-15365,16001-16366) and then convert the whatever date format your
record needed (-mm-dd).
/Tom Kern
On 04/26/2019 13:48, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
Also if you have any other ideas for generating random dates (MMDD)
On 11/23/2017 17:39, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 23/11/2017 10:30 PM, Munif Sadek wrote:
SMF/CMF are least of our concern at the moment. We are initially
inclined for any automated tool that can
A.read SAS PDBs and convert them to DB2 tables and/or flat file. Tool
must cater take for packed, COMP
It is time to retire when you cannot remember how long management has
been trying to get rid of your mainframe.
/Tom
On 08/19/2017 09:11, scott Ford wrote:
How does a techie of 40 yrs know when it's time to retire? Bearing in mind
I understand you have to have enough money, for me that's a
How about homegrown OS?
When I started working on contract to NASA at the Goddard Institute for
Space Studies in NYC, June 1976, they ran Scientific Supervisory
System/360 (SSS/360) on an IBM 360/95 and a copy under VM/370 R3 on an
Amdahl 470/V6. SSS/360 was about 35,000 lines of Assembler code.
Not just from some manager who doesn't know Mainframes, but some manager
that has never had the responsibility of operating a real computer
system for production purposes, especially in an Enterprise size data
center.
/Tom kern
On 11/22/2016 13:43, william janulin wrote:
Sounds like the
Perhaps what might be useful would be an assembler program to run loops
of individual instructions and output some timing information.
/Tom
On 12/23/2015 11:20, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <8970116796168447.wa.jcallennarsil@listserv.ua.edu>, on
12/23/2015
at 09:46 AM, Jerry
There is also the yEd Graph Editor. I think it is Java so you can run it
on Windows.
/Tom Kern
On 12/10/2015 13:00, Linda wrote:
Greetings!
I need a free flowcharting tool to diagram the workflows for several mainframe
processes. It would have to run on Windows. Google lists several, but I
I have never written any JCL on the boxes, just labels and notes.
/Tom Kern
On 12/04/2015 00:33, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Is that counting the weight of the boxes themselves?
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Approximately 274905 cards.
2000 cards per box is about 14.55 lbs.
137.45 boxes per ton(2000lbs)
It is Friday now.
/Tom Kern
On 12/03/2015 22:40, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
On 12/03/2015 12:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:43:38 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
... Because DOS/VS
When I did that at a government contract turnover, the new contractor
rejected my changes and retracted the employment offer. All while I was
attending SHARE on behalf of the government customer. My government
supervisor found a subcontractor for me within a day and they had NO
such contracts
Unfortunately, where I work if it isn't a Windows PC it just isn't a
real computer.
/Tom Kern
On 11/29/2015 13:09, Scott Ford wrote:
Guys,
Exactly, a z/OS system isnt a PC ...and not JAVA
Scott
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Ricardo Gomez Ramirez
wrote:
2015-11-26
Not only did GISS have a 360/95 (running a special operating system
called SSS/360) but also an Amdahl 470V6 running VM/370 R3 with 3 VMs
of SSS/360.
My first job was production control there. I logged onto my first VM on
June 23, 1976.
/Tom Kern
On 03/27/2015 17:41, Shmuel Metz (Seymour
I am looking to find any remaining Mainframe systems in the Department
of Energy?
If you are running one, please let me know who you are.
/Thomas Kern
/On Contract to DOE Headquarters
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If your Helpdesk or Sr Mgmt check on non-mainframe systems, they might
know/recognize such monitoring applications as Xymon(formerly Hobbit)
and Nagios.
I have not used any Nagios client on a Mainframe to report our status,
but Xymon worked when we had a reasonable mainframe workload to be
At one time, I broke open the UTILITY EXEC and used copies of the
commands inside it to build my own version of the utiltape. Mine started
with ICKDSF, then DDR, then the standalone FDR program. With that tape I
could initialize a volume, restore a volume (VM or MVS) and back up a
volume
You just have to keep IPLing to skip past the Tape Label and tape marks.
Not nice but do-able at DR. Fix it when you get back home.
/Tom Kern
On 05/08/2014 13:54, Alan Altmark wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2014 20:05:58 -0400, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote:
Think the key is get a working VM
The COMPUTE REXX
(http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?COMPUTE) and
TABULATE REXX
(http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TABULATE) stages
for PIPELINES are very handy for the kind of manipulations you need to
do for this data. I do hope you can run pipelines one
to settle the penalties
and such and hope that there are some penalties for any Outage, just not
as bad for the Scheduled ones.
/Tom Kern
On 09/30/2013 08:49 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:40:01 -0400, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote:
I like to account for four
I like to account for four different types of service time for SLAs.
Scheduled Maintenance Windows: These are predefined, scheduled,
well-publicized and should not count against an SLA.
Scheduled Outages: These are outages for maintenance, upgrades etc that
cannot wait until the next
great news:
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at 03:17 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
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There is something reassuring in the fact that these kinds of performance
numbers are
available and looked at.
/Tom Kern
On 8/31/2012 02:29, Jim Mulder wrote:
I still like the
concept of having IPL and NIP somehow resident on the SSD for very
fast loading. Perhaps in z/OS 2.3 grin.
I
On 8/7/2012 21:20, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 10:17 + on 08/07/2012, Pearce, Colin E wrote about Re: Auditors Don't
Know Squat!:
Ask the Auditors if they will help you fill out all the APARs and collect
the supporting
documents
IMO: Any Auditor who wants to tell me how to do my
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