Draft Command Script Processing Manual

2006-06-24 Thread Brian Westerman
Hi, I have the draft manual for the command script processing program ready for those that are interested in taking a look at it before I finalize it. If you would like to take a look at it for me it can be downloaded from: http://syzygyinc.net/Documents/Draft%20SYZCMDZ%202.0%20Manual.pdf If

English (was Mainframe Limericks

2006-06-24 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, I put my hands up to being one of those people who only speak two languages, English and Rubbish, although I suspect they may be inexplicably linked. (Programming languages can be discounted as I might only be able to libel somebody in those rather than slander them.) In the context of an

Re: English (was Mainframe Limericks

2006-06-24 Thread Shane
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:50 +0100, Terry Sambrooks wrote: On a different tack abbreviations and there use has cropped up recently. I usually have no trouble interpreting technical abbreviations, IBM has a Glossary to assist with this. It is the vernacular abbreviations which throw me, my

Re: English (was Mainframe Limericks

2006-06-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Terry Sambrooks wrote: ... assumption is that IIRC is If I Remember Correctly but IMHO has me perplexed. IMHO = In my humble opinion These net speak terms can be found in any good on-line jargon dictionary ... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd,

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Joe Morris wrote: Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: os/360 ... pcp. i don't remember that you could sysgen mvt until release 12. That agrees with my recollections. And one other event at release 12 was that the sources were all resequenced...which wasn't really that much of an

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-24 Thread Chris Mason
A few comments on the thread so far: It appears that many of the posts in this thread have avoided becoming e-mails. I've just trawled through them all on Google Groups - except where the history of UNIX and the mainframe operating systems is being mulled over. One that appeared from Bruce

Reconstructing VBS (was: Patent #6886160)

2006-06-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Gilbert Saint-Flour said: Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:46:22 -0400 On Saturday 17 June 2006 19:11, Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote: 1) Pre-allocate the receiving file as RECFM=U; 2) FTP it; 3) then read it as RECFM=VBS. Do that pretty often as well. I'm not

Re: Old Hashing Routine

2006-06-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jim Mulder wrote: The architecture scavenged two PTE bits to allow for 64mbytes of real storage. I don't think the 3033 ever supported more than 32mbytes, and I am not sure about the 3081, but there were customers running MVS/370 on the 3090 with 64mbytes of real storage. re:

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Chris Mason wrote: Shmuel, cryptic as ever, didn't actually mention das Weib but I expect that was what he meant. I can imagine a thoroughly politically incorrect - and offensive - way I can explain why this word should be in the neuter. It's based on the attitudes I can imagine men might adopt

Re: Old Hashing Routine

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: the other issue is that ckd dasd from the 60s ... traded off i/o thruput with extended ( multi-track) searches for real memory use ... i.e. more real memory intensive tended to cache indexes to specific disk location ... while vtoc pds multi-track search spun the

Re: SYSLOG and Incorrect Days Extra

2006-06-24 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:28:19 -0400, Fagan, Dennis M. wrote: I just noticed in the daily SYSLOG file we generate, that I am always getting 2 incorrect days along with the current day seems to have started the day of an IPL. For example: the most current file is SYSLOG.DVLP.D060622 which was

IBM Reaches record speed

2006-06-24 Thread Ed Gould
Lawrence Livermore Lab, IBM reach record software speed bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance Fri, 23 Jun 2006 3:09 PM PDT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM Corp. have devised the world's most powerful software - a scientific application that sustained 207.3 trillion operations per