time used on Ready; prompt

2011-08-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Gentry, Steve wrote: Does anyone remember when or what release IBM stopped displaying the time used(for lack of the correct term) on the Ready; prompt? I was talking to an old IBM'er/VM'er and he asked about it. I had forgotten that it used to be displayed. Just curious w

Re: Mandatory ESMs?

2010-12-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Tom Duerbusch wrote: IBM had a program. If you were a developer, you could sign up and have time on one of IBMs' mainframes. Kind of like the old time sharing services back in the '60s and '70s. It seems to me that it resurfaced with Linux development but I haven't hea

Shopz Function

2010-11-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Schuh, Richard wrote: In the Shopz new function announcement that I just received, the salutation was, "Dear 52450 Schuh,". I am not sure that I will recognize it if someone calls me by my new first name. It will take some time getting used to it. Regards, 52450 (Richar