Thank you for an excellent explanation, Dr. Boyes.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:42 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Watson
> I, too, wished IBM would do mo
For da buzz?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: Tue Feb 15 16:10:49 2011
Subject: Re: Watson
On 02/15/2011 04:04 PM, Tom Huegel wrote:
>
> I wonder what the business justification was for building it.
This is it.
--
Rich Smrcina
I would imagine just the advancement in voice recognition would have some
business value. Plus the legal mandates to digitize medical records maybe.
Whatever it is, Watson is awesome
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Sent: Tue
Also posted to IBM-MAIN
At long last we're taking down our IBM 2105. My question has to do with
the fact that the 2105 shares a McData switch with another SAN, and that
other SAN is live production. Powering down the 2105 and carefully
removing the cables and electrical power source should have
A while ago a very experienced VM person from IBM suggested that we not
use ABSOLUTE unless you "absolutely" must cap off a guest to keep it
from running away with your real processors. We used that setting on
our test system only.
Our VSE TOR and VM guest TCPIP both had high relative shares (1000
all, the SAN can't electrically "see" the cable.
Les
McBride, Catherine wrote:
> We were a Z-VM 5.4 shop. Unfortunately due to consolidation we have shut
> down our mainframe and are in the process of de-installing it. VM and the
> mainframe were shut down normally, and
We were a Z-VM 5.4 shop. Unfortunately due to consolidation we have shut down
our mainframe and are in the process of de-installing it. VM and the mainframe
were shut down normally, and all the FICON and ESCON cables were disconnected
from the mainframe. My question for the list has to do wit
Yes, it is possible under the right circumstances to have "fail-over"
devices defined. One example that comes to mind is with OSA adapters
and virtual switches.
I've seen deployments of fail-overs for those components that work
slick. Am curious why you would need to do this for something other
t
Sorry I haven't been following this but did you try
SET VSWITCH VSW3 CONNECT
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of louis.gai...@its.ms.gov
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:24 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: VLAN I
: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:16 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:05 PM, McBride, Catherine
wrote:
> Power Blades support IOS
But do they on a zBX? I don't see that in the docs I'm looking at (of
course, it may have changed,
Power Blades support IOS
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Behalf Of zMan
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:59 PM
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Subject: Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tom Duerbusch
wro
No FAQS?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Wakser, David
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 9:55 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Suppressing messages
All:
We have recently implemented DASD monitoring
That's slllick.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:35 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Duplicate VOLSERs at IPL
Here's what I do (I think y
One was best in our atypical environment with an atypical workload. We were an
ADABAS shop and that skewers things a bit with all its SVC's. We did test with
rel share set equally. No limitsoft or set absolutes.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@L
I agree with IBM on this one. Long ago the powers-that-were brought in a 6-way
with not-too-fast processors. This was when turbo dispatcher was first GA. The
experiment was only marginally successful. Great perf on CMS, not so good on
VSE
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From: The IBM z/VM Operati
When I was still blessed with having Tom Huegel on staff he installed
something called TRACK that allows us to see the current status of a
guest. Might be something for you to look into in the future. I find it
especially useful for a VSE or other non-CMS guest in a wait state or a
logoff/force pe
FORCE username entered from another user name works well providing
"another user name" has the correct privileges.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Daniel Tate
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:15 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSER
http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?NBK
Maybe?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Tom Huegel
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:37 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: looking for a download
I
itch xx connect
?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McBride, Catherine
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:35 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subj
2010 at 4:22 PM, McBride, Catherine
wrote:
Somebody rebooted the switch that our OSA cards are plugged
into. Our VSWITCH tried to recover by failing over from VSWITCH1 to
VSWITCH2. Unfortunately, both of them terminate at the same physical
switch and now we can't get either one to
Somebody rebooted the switch that our OSA cards are plugged into. Our
VSWITCH tried to recover by failing over from VSWITCH1 to VSWITCH2.
Unfortunately, both of them terminate at the same physical switch and
now we can't get either one to activate. Output of Q VSWITCH looks like
this:
q vswitch
reach the outside world
Thank you - that was the answer!
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:16 PM, McBride, Catherine
wrote:
Well a couple of the more knowledgeable folks suggested that you
check to make sure DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2 are both logged on. Those are
the controllers usually associated
2010 at 2:41 PM, McBride, Catherine
wrote:
Your VSWITCH state should be READY rather than just DEFINED.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate
Yes, and his Q VSWITCH shows NONE for controllers..not sure that can
work.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of peter.w...@ttc.ca
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:07 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Cannot r
Your VSWITCH state should be READY rather than just DEFINED.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Daniel Tate
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:30 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Cannot reach the outside wor
Depends upon which type of DASD you have. If you're using a SAN, use
the SAN's manager tools to reformat the DASD, 3 passes will do. Or, you
can have IBM come in and scrub it for you. Your regular customer
engineer can perform the reformatting at the SAN level for you. If you
truly require DoD-
Well, duh. I should have checked the VSE ADD statement, it's a
1403!! Your reply was right on the money. THANK YOU.
Dave Jones wrote:
We've got multiple VSE guests running under Z-VM 5.4
The developers have generated some VSE LST queue output with a reclen of
150. They're trying to spool it to their CMS reader and it's truncating
to 132. I've tried SET TRUNC= and SETL LRECL= while in RL "peek" but get
DMSXDC543E. Received it ont
Can you re-IML the tape drive?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: Thu Apr 01 06:27:42 2010
Subject: Tape is quiesced...
Does any one know how a tape drive gets into this state:
vary on 182
tomhue...@prodigy.net or tehue...@gmail.com
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Fran Hensler
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:14 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Contact Thomas Huegel
Tom Huegel used to post on this
tomhue...@prodigy.net
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Fran Hensler
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:14 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Contact Thomas Huegel
Tom Huegel used to post on this list but I haven't see
Hi Tom,
We've got Multiterm VSE and Multiterm VM here for user session management, and
Blue Zone for 3270/5250 emulation. Most mainframe user sessions connect via
TOR to VSE VTAM. Access to VM is via a menu selection on the Multiterm VSE
menu, via VCTCA to Multiterm VM. The Blue Zone deplo
Congratulations. Gives hope to a few of us who will be unemployed very
soon.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Mark Wheeler
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:29 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Moving On
When we first looked at this, one thing that wasn't recommended when using a CP
versus an IFL was using CP Linux to run a DBMS. David, you helped us with the
analysis at the time.
The I/O intensive nature of the DBMS was a drawback, as was the licensing (you
had to license at the full MIPS of t
Q CPLEVEL?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]on Behalf
Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:49 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Finding Last IPL Time and Date
Hello all,
Can anyone tell me if there is a CP com
Just received a similar notice here, on a reply to a different mailing list.
Also hosted at UARK.EDU.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]on Behalf
Of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:55 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sub
You are not wrong. The only way we could empathize with the 3rd party vendor
is if the back-level component is needed as a work-around for a defect or
design flaw in something external to their product, like the operating system.
David Boyes wrote:
Question:
I believe the maker of the vendor
Cross-posted to VSE-L and IBM-VM lists:
We have a IBM 9672-X27 and an EMC 8530 for sale. Very, VERY reasonable.
Anyone interested please contact me off-list.
Kind regards,
Cathy McBride
Manager, Mainframe/Midrange Support
Kable News Company, Inc
(815) 734-5905
cmcbr...@kable.com
We're still i
Check with your IBM C.E., they have the good stuff.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Mary Zervos
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:52 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Shark Retiring
We are about to retire a 2105-F20 Shark,
Interesting thread. Thanks.
Cathy McBride
Manager, Mainframe/Midrange Support
Kable News Company, Inc
(815) 734-5905
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We're still in this together!
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Barton Robinson
Sent: Monday,
Google GC22-7064, you'll find it
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Behalf Of Glen Gunselman
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:48 PM
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Good afternoon (I'm in CDT tod
Yes, you did (bless you!) I should have said, 'intervened in any official
capacity'.
Kind regards,
McB
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Wakser, David
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:30 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: B
Lambasting another person's code when they were simply trying to help by
sharing it didn't seem too relevant to the stated topic either, yet no one
intervened THEN. This tells me we tolerate blatant rudeness, but not humor
interjected to defuse tension caused by the rudeness. Guess it's all a
Congratulations to you, sir. You truly "rock"!
Fran Hensler wrote:
Today is my 45th anniversary in data processing at Slippery Rock
University of PA. On May 6, 1963 I founded the Data Processing Center
at the then Slippery Rock State College.
We used a different approach to this. Our CPU is a quad. We do not run
VSE's turbo dispatcher in multi-engine mode as little of our workload is
able to benefit. This limits each VSE guest to dispatch on a single CP and
minimizes one VSE's ability to dominate the entire box. Note that each
guest
Mike did you also upgrade VM recently?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Horlick, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:55 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Using SET SHARE, performance problem
The VSE guests are usu
Using ABSOLUTE has always given me the willies. As with all things, there
no doubt is a time and a place for it. But we don't use it on our VSE
guests. We used RELATIVE for years, we now use a freebie that's included
with Z-VM V5 called VM Resource Manager. You may wish to check it out.
You'll
Maybe the approach you end up taking will be dictated by the reason why you
have to switch to SSL in the first place. If it's being done to meet
specific audit requirements "security by obscurity" won't do it. You may be
able to meet standards by starting a second IP stack minus SSL only in an
em
Would be interesting to hear how Linux and OpenSolaris compare when deployed
on a ZSeries -
performance, ease of installation/maintenance, any special caveats, etc.
David Boyes wrote:
Trying that on my test system caused Linux to panic -- having
/dev/console go away is not a friendly act. Probabl
Dude, at least you get "Champaign" with the pizza. Our beer's warm.
Bob Shair wrote:
>What's Normal?
Just north of Bloomington.
Well stated.
Also to consider, the degree to which this person/position will need to
"play well with others".
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:56 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Several years ago all hiring managers and above were required to attend
classes on recruiting and hiring the best people. One class dealt with
"avoiding the future workplace troublemaker". They handed out a list of
"personality traits to avoid" that almost perfectly described a typical I.T.
perso
We had to bother (with SSL) due to a combination of connectivity/app
requirements. But you verbalized everything a lot better than I could
have.
Thanks.
Adam Thornton wrote:
Linux can most certainly support secure Telnet, whether kerberized,
TLS-negotiated, or SSL-wrapped implicit. Grant
We're not familiar with that one nor using it at any of our locations.
Sounds interesting though.
Howard Rifkin wrote:
I guess my real question is about using the NoMachine client/server programs
to access a z/VM Linux guest...Anyone using NoMachine?
Thanks
Depends on what the Linux guest's purpose in life is. TELNET via TCPIP,
SSH, or a browser if your Linux guest is going to be serving up web pages.
Sometimes little if any "outside" access is needed depending upon what kind
of tasks the Linux guest is going to be performing.
-Original Messa
A colleague has a situation where some remote locations can't telnet to the
mainframe. Others can. The locations that can't connect via internal IP
address can connect successfully using the same emulator and the real IP
address. We tested using several different 3270 emulators, with the same
re
Alan, what would actually cause a redirect like that, an error in a router?
Hacking?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: 3/8/2008 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Why are terminals showing as gateways?
On Friday, 03/07/2008 at 04:33 EST, Tony T
Perhaps company size isn't as much of a factor as the role of I.T. within
the company. If your business is I.T. or your "product" is created, stored
and delivered via computer, you ARE a big company from an I.T perspective.
Ideally the technical and operations groups are separate, and report to
so
No wonder it used vacuum tubes...
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Dave Jones
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:03 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: UNIVAC: mainframe related.
I agree, Thomas...it documents an era when
Have a very close friend out of work, several others struggling to make a
living freelancing.
All could write an assembler program while attending a soccer match and the
code would be PERFECT. Years and years of mainframe experience. The guy
completely out of work has no prospects in sight, the o
For a SOX audit I'd almost agree with you, as you bring up some valid
points. This was a PCI audit. The key difference that we've found between
SOX and PCI is that for SOX you create policy statements to meet SOX
guidelines and are tested on how well you adhere to your own policies. For
PCI you a
Don't laugh, we know a guy who failed a PCI audit because the data traffic
moving between his LPAR's wasn't encrypted. No amount of convincing,
coercing, pleading or reasoning would change that auditor's mind.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROT
LOL
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:40 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Security Updates
I just can't let this go.
Has anyone ever had some 'WINDOZE'
Like, at SunGuard maybe?
Thanks ever so for the infusion of common sense. I needed it.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:00 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: LTO 2 and LTO
Would any of you happen to know if an LTO3 tape drive can read a tape
produced on an LTO2?
Often the newer higher-density drive can read a tape produced on an older
drive, but the older drive cannot of course read a tape produced on a newer
one. Does anyone know if that would hold true in the LTO2
Anne we've experimented with SET SHARE ABSOLUTE (with and without LIMITSOFT
and LIMITHARD) over the years to cap off something that gets too capricious.
But there's probably much better ways to address this. We use VM Resource
Manager, which has some "stuff" to help manage the guests.
Hopefully so
Unfortunately, VSE is my biggest issue, and we're pretty confident it cannot
do this. Thank you very much for your help.
Alan Altmark wrote:
You are correct. A guest, however, can synchronize *its* clock with an
external source. Linux can do this via NTP. I don't know about VSE.
Alan Al
) way to synchronize VM/VSE's
TOD with an external source.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: 8/1/2007 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Synchronize HMC's TOD clock to MF TOD clock
On Wednesday, 08/01/2007 at 03:12 EDT, "McBride, Ca
Mr. West,
THANK YOU!
Now if we can get Mr. Altmark or Mr. Bitner to confirm (in other words,
"Dudes, please reply to this!") you just solved an incredibly huge problem
for us.
Judson West wrote:
It's my understanding that at LPAR activation, the clock in the LPAR is
sync'ed with the H
Anyone know of a way to synchronize our TOD clock on our Z890 to the clock
on the HMC? Sound nuts, I realize, but the HMC's clock can be synchronized
to the rest of the server farm and the Z890 could maybe sync from the
HMC...?
Yeah, same for me.
My initial response upon seeing his OUT OF OFFICE was
"Gee, maybe he's off playing his guitar some place".
That guy could really rock.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Larry Macioce
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1
EUREKA! Got it! This is a neat solution. Thank you for such a concise
answer.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: 7/3/2007 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: zVM 5.3 and SSL
On Tuesday, 07/03/2007 at 03:46 EST, "McBride, Catherine"
I'm confused. If SSL is provided thru Linux, how does that work with
TN3270E?
Maybe it's just been a long on-call week (already), but am struggling to
connect the dots (or in this case, the 3270 sessions). How can we come in
to Linux via TN3270?Or, is the IP stack on VM doing the communicatio
Am I correct in my understanding that with the TCPIP shipped with Z-VM 5.3
we can telnet directly into VM using SSL (provided of course that we are
using an SSL-enabled TN3270 emulator?)
Thanks in Advance and kind regards,
Cathy McBride
An important distinction, and great that you pointed it out to everyone!
Thank you Fran!
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Fran Hensler
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:07 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: FTPing to z/VM
Wow, some of us are enjoying this thread way more than we should be.. ;-)
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Stricklin, Raymond J
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hipersockets and security???
Don't know whether to laugh or cry on this one!
Unfortunately your situation is not unique. Here we spent DAYS trying to
convince an "auditor" that being able to sign on to a CICS green screen is
NOT THE SAME as having "root authority". (We surmise that the only time
this young man had ever
Dave, you may want to cross-post this one on VSE-L..could generate some good
dialogue.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Dave Reinken
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:19 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: PAV and VSE guest
I w
Or the fact that "green card" has nothing to do with immigration issues, but
we ALL know EXACTLY what you're referring to...
Jim Bohnsack wrote:
>Or just that you've been in the business too long when you see an
>expensive looking sports car with the license plate with "5B5B5B" and
>know wha
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