Re: curious about Java usage.

2009-12-21 Thread Corneel Booysen
transfer. Java gives the flexibility that you do not have to compile it on the mainframe. We simply copied the CICS jar file to the Linux build server and were able to compile the applications. I am sure this approach will also work for batch. Thanks Corneel Booysen. -Original Message

Poll about telecommuting

2008-06-11 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello everybody, With gas prices up so much we thought we would host a poll about the state of telecommuting. It is available at CICS World: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Thanks. Corneel. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

CICS Wiki news

2008-04-16 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello everybody, 1. We got a nice addition from Leigh Compton on how to optimize web service invocations when the requester and provider programs are in the same region:

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Corneel Booysen
Funny thing - I was just writing about COBOL yesterday: Is COBOL like Oil? : http://www.cicsworld.com/node/559 Thanks Corneel Booysen. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Tuesday, April 08

CICS Wiki news.

2008-03-31 Thread Corneel Booysen
Breaking a long drought on the Wiki I added the following articles: - How do I write to an HFS file from CICS? http://cicswiki.org/cicswiki1/index.php?title=How_do_I_write_to_an_HFS_file_from_CICS? - How do I authenticate a web user in CICS?

CICS Wiki news

2008-03-05 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello all, 1. Well SHARE is over and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found most of the tracks very enjoyable. There were exceptions like the SOA track but you can read my comments about it at http://www.cicsworld.com/node/384 . 2. CICS World is alive! My friend Ian made his new site available and I

Video of mainframe being shaken

2008-03-03 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hi all, for those of you who attended SHARE - in Cheryl's session on Friday she showed a video of a mainframe being shaken on an earthquake simulation machine while it was processing transactions. Do any of you know where I can find that video? Thanks. Corneel.

Wiki news.

2008-02-20 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello everybody, I have been away for almost three weeks. (See my personal note below). So I have not been able to provide Wiki news. Thanks for Roland who looked after the Wiki in this time. - We passed one hundred team members while I was gone! As great as it is - we can do even better. There

CICS wiki news and and a very important question

2008-01-28 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello everybody, Here is some Wiki news and a very important question: 1. The vendor spotlight goes live today with the first vendor (Document Systems, Inc). Check it out on the Wiki main page or visit the vendor page at http://cicswiki.org/cicswiki1/index.php?title=Document_Systems_Inc. 2.

CICS Wiki news.

2008-01-22 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello all, here is some Wiki news. 1. The first old CICS website has been adopted into the Wiki. Check it out at http://cicswiki.org/cicswiki1/index.php?title=CICSCentral 2. I added the Yellow brick moment where Bob Yelavich will entertain us with CICS trivia.

CICS Wiki news.

2008-01-14 Thread Corneel Booysen
/index.php?title=Special:Wantedpages Let's make this a great year for this community. Regards. Corneel Booysen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: OT: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomor...

2008-01-09 Thread Corneel Booysen
face until my wife corrects the statement with - ...I mean I will see you at 3pm Corneel Booysen. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: The future of PDSs

2007-12-14 Thread Corneel Booysen
So I wonder if it is true that the original name of HAL was really a dig at IBM. (As in each letter of the name is one place higher alphabetically than the letters in IBM. Remember the evil computer killed all the people... Never mind me - I did not sleep either :-) -Original Message-

Re: Uh, oh ...

2007-12-07 Thread Corneel Booysen
Rugby is football for real men... ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Field, Alan C. Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Uh, oh ... I know this one ... He means Rugby. Football is

Re: Anyone else see the Waffle Dinges man on TV this morning?

2007-12-06 Thread Corneel Booysen
One of the dialects of Flemish/Dutch is Afrikaans and that language is alive and well! Goeie dag. (Good day) Corneel Booysen. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. 5050 Edgewood Ct, Jacksonville, FL 32254 Phone: (904) 783-5517 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly

2007-12-05 Thread Corneel Booysen
I love the letter Clement! Maybe we can end it with: Mr. Palmisano we are asking you today...BREAK DOWN THIS WALL!!! (Quoting president Reagan - incase somebody had doubt where that came from) Corneel Booysen. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

CICS Wiki news

2007-12-03 Thread Corneel Booysen
Just a short note to give some Wiki news. 1. We are over 75 users on the Wiki team - this is very exciting. I hope you all will contribute much in the next year. 2. Michael and Roland contributed to an excellent article on CORBA tuning. Check it out at

CICS Wiki news.

2007-11-05 Thread Corneel Booysen
It was a slow week on the Wiki but hopefully this week we will get more participation. Here is what happened last week and today: 1. Several good updates by Roland last week. Check it out in Recent changes. ( http://cicswiki.org/cicswiki1/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges ) 2. There is a new

CICS Wiki news.

2007-10-29 Thread Corneel Booysen
Hello everybody, On the CICS Wiki this past week: - The news feed is finally working - try it at http://cicswiki.org/cicswiki1/index.php?title=NewsFeedfeed=rss . You need a news reader to take full advantage of the feature. (I am trying to tune down the verbosity of the news feed) - A few

CICS Wiki

2007-10-15 Thread Corneel Booysen
documentation. So there it is – an experiment in collaboration. Let’s see how well we can make this work for all of us. Best regards. Corneel Booysen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

2007-08-10 Thread corneel booysen
This poll has served to confirm my concern about the aging workforce and the effect of that on the future of the mainframe. I watched with interest what discussions the poll provoked on the lists. It certainly seems that there are a lot of valuable people working on the mainframe. There are