Re: Simpless way to prevent arbitary HLQ's

2008-10-12 Thread Ed Gould
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Simpless way to prevent arbitary HLQ's --- On Mon, 10/6/08, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Heart Surgery

2008-10-14 Thread Ed Gould
, Robert B. Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [OT] Heart Surgery In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/12/2008 at 09:41 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not really. I am do for Heart surgery in 3 weeks. Ed, I hope your operation

Shortage of COBOL Programmers

2008-10-23 Thread Ed Gould
++ | Cobol Job Market Heating Up| | from the dress-the-part-at-the-interview dept. | | posted by timothy on Thursday October 23, @14:12 (Businesses)| |

Re: DFSORT date question

2008-10-25 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Sat, 10/25/08, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP My $0.02: Sometimes the A.H. companies do change their rules. It is necessary to explain them that you really need their product on some LPAR, not all box and - last but definitely

OT: Surgery Delay

2008-11-02 Thread Ed Gould
Sorry to break in but just wanted every one to know that the surgery has been delayed. The doctors want to see if it can be treated by medicine instead if it can't then surgery will happen. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe Jobs Considered Recession Proof

2008-11-12 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mainframe Jobs Considered Recession Proof To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 5:24 PM Hi, Depends where and for who, I suppose ? I am not so sure this

Ancient IBM Drive Rescues Apollo Moon Data

2008-11-16 Thread Ed Gould
Ancient IBM Drive Rescues Apollo Moon Data A Sydney computer society supplied the 1960s magnetic tape drive to retrieve archives for moon development plans. Tom Jowitt, Techworld.com Saturday, November 15, 2008 02:06 PM PST Valuable mission data gathered by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon 40

Little OT but its worth the 20+ minutes to watch it

2008-11-23 Thread Ed Gould
I was astounded to see that Google now claims to sort 6 petabytes in a few hours. This is astounding. I bet Frank Yeager would be interested in this, I know we could never come close to this in the mainframe world. I am in complete awe of this. It is not clear exactly what they are sorting

Re: z/OS V1R10 COBOL

2008-11-29 Thread Ed Gould
Jim, 30+ years ago it was reasonably easy to be on top of all the announcements (although in all honesty 2-3 times I went to SHARE and found out about a TSO product of some sort. Yes it was easy despite that to keep up with products as the changes were not that lets say major in each release.

AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-08 Thread Ed Gould
Who says COBOL doesn't get tweaks? Track this topic Print story Post comment IBM Power/AIX machines get 64-bit support - finally By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise, 7th January 2009 20:23 GMT Business whitepaper - Virtualization: the four key cost savings

Re: MVS 4 minute 'outage'

2009-01-08 Thread Ed Gould
My first thought would be to look at a logrec report that lists software errors as well as hardware errors. There can be a lot of good info in there. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-13 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Fri, 1/9/09, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl Subject: Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ... To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 7:56 AM Is there any reason to have 64-bit COBOL on z/OS ? Of

Re: Assembler is *NOT* dead! [was: RE: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL ...]

2009-01-13 Thread Ed Gould
SNIP-- I resemble being called Extinct, under any title. There's still a place for usDinos who prize nice tight code that accomplishes the required purpose. :-) Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: ---SNIP- OK I

Why MS is winning the battle

2009-01-13 Thread Ed Gould
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/10/edgi-continued-dumping-vs-gnu/ How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools from the doing-battle-like-an-insider dept. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-13 Thread Ed Gould
Yes thanks bit as others have mentions C isn't licensed at the installation and the number of COBOL programmers who do know c is less than the number of Assembler types out there. I have found that the senior COBOL types have over the years have picked up assembler (little bits) as it is

Re: System Install and Catalogs

2009-01-14 Thread Ed Gould
I never produce a new master cat with a new release install unless there is some compelling reason to do so.  My sandbox system has its own master cat so catalog compatibility can be checked there before deploying elsewhere. If you use indirect cataloging for the system resident data

Re: C without LE [was: RE: VSM Changes in z/OS 1.10: Beta Systems Software]

2009-01-14 Thread Ed Gould
Barbara, I was looking at your reply and after a few hours this company rang a small bell in my head. I couldn't get rid of and I started to vaguely remember a product we got in house about 13 years ago. I think (I really could be off in this) that it was a product from Europe and I couldn't

Re: SHARE copyright

2009-01-15 Thread Ed Gould
SNIP Your request probably just went to Smith Bucklin, and while they are great at managing day to day admin stuff, they probably aren't in a position to even think about copyright issues. Why not contact one of the board members; a fair number of them

Re: Data Encryption Product Limits: 300 Datasets per month

2009-01-17 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Jim Marshall jim.marsh...@opm.gov wrote: SNIP-- As a footnote it does all present some interesting challenges as far as Key Management, exchanging files with our Windows/Unix/Linux Brethren, and espically the Translation

Re: GDG Question

2009-01-27 Thread Ed Gould
Barry: Excellent response. I am somewhat perturbed though by IBM's response as being OCO. IBM, I believe (for a large $$ donation) will give out certain non disclosure items. Yet I am somewhat mystified as to why IBM needs to classify a catalog record layout as OCO. We know of at least one

Re: SYS1.UADS Format

2009-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: SYS1.UADS Format To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 9:41 AM I think you missed the forest for the trees. Do you have to editorialise, when somebody

Re: Syncsort vs competitors

2009-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 2:29 PM On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:18:25 -0600, Lupher, Fred fred.lup...@nebraska.gov wrote: We are a long time Syncsort customer.  Our contract with them will be up for renewal soon, so this is a

Re: Syncsort vs competitors

2009-02-02 Thread Ed Gould
_SNIP__ (Frank Yaeger) wrote: I have done a couple of conversions but that was more than 10 years ago so anything I write could be out of date so take it for what its worth. Things have, of course, changed a lot for both products in 10 years. I never understand

Re: Syncsort vs competitors

2009-02-02 Thread Ed Gould
---SNIP-. Things have, of course, changed a lot for both products in 10 years. I never understand why you think what happened 10 years ago is relevant today. A lot of my experience stands. I still talk to other sysprogs and they are fighting the same battles we

Re: Regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-20 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Ken Brick wrote: I seem to recall that EASYTREV/PLUS come with a set of sample SMF programs at one stage. Ken, I had access to EASYTREV ala 1979 and yes I did a lot of reporting with SMF data. However I could not (successfully) access all the new types of

Re: regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Gould
that Ed Gould, alone among contributors to this thread, did identify this problem. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA John, Thanks for the authoritative answer. Ed _ http://newlivehotmail.com

OT Fits all of us

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Gould
Just change one or two points And it fits every Email group or list! How many group members does it take To change a lightbulb? One to change the light bulb and to post That the light bulb has been changed. Fourteen to share similar experiences Of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-22 Thread Ed Gould
Go with a Mac Pro. Mac's OSX OS is superior to win (anything) and you can also run XP. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-22 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 22, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Rich Smrcina wrote: I wiped all that Vista nonsense off my new T60 and installed Opensuse 10.2. Ed Gould wrote: Go with a Mac Pro. Mac's OSX OS is superior to win (anything) and you can also run XP. Ed

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 23, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Howard Brazee wrote: On 23 Jul 2007 08:20:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Burch) wrote: Ah, you are confusing a cross platform application with internet browser support. Cross platform should not imply cross browser. The app I do cross platform

Re: Think your an expert with MVS Diagnostic tools? Programmed in Assembler? Work with DFSMS products? Looking for a new career opportunity? What are you waiting for, Open this!!!!

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 23, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Danielle Duarte Are an expert with MVS Diagnostic tools? Love to program in Assembler? Work with DFSMS family of products? Then CTG is looking for you! Computer Task

Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Gould
Today I was at another doctors office waiting for my appointment and was surprised when I saw that Xephon was now apart of Z/Journal. So now if you have a complaint you can complain to IBM (not sure if this is good or not). Also, in Pete Clarks column there is a interesting discussion about

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:44 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carroll, William Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Secure clist Is there any way to secure certain clist

Re: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: If it seems I'm picking nits then just ignore me. (-: But I've been following this and trying to understand it and to be honest it doesn't always make sense. May I ask, do you mean that IBM is being a jerk about FLEX because of the FSI

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: Not interested. There are many solutions out there that can effect a change to every member in a PDS and most are FREE. Yea but are they supported 24x7 ? Or do you get a response well maybe in the next few weeks I will get a

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 24, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Bill Seubert wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:30:36 -0500, William Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy, Internal customers do not ask your question, How do you measure the total performance of the whole IT organization? They are really only interested in

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: All programs in the linklist are accessible directly, what is the possible value of protecting (from read, update protection is mandatory) a linklist dataset? I mean if I can execute tso iefbr14, what is the drawback of me executing tso

Re: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Z/Journal issue June/July 2007 Today I was at another doctors office waiting for my appointment and was surprised when I saw that Xephon was now apart of Z

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: But what was purpose of this? Was there a security exposure identified? If so, what was it? Or was it a case of well, it's always been done this way. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my

It used to be bits were either on or off now....

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070725/tc_nm/ quantum_computing_dc_1;_ylt=Ap_vjcqDm0wY6_fhbxqMXcEE1vAI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Mark H. Young wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:40:09 -0400, Carroll, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to secure certain clist from unauthorized use? For example if I don't want applications to get into the wlm, Application, how would I do it? If it

Re: Spam from SHARE

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Pinnacle wrote: They just don't get it. Does SHARE get monies from the vendors for the mailing lists? Or for other participation opportunities? Is it possible that vendor advertising is necessary in order to be able to continue SHARE and keep the costs to

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
it was a host of other no-no programs that were in sys1.linklib. It was amaspzap and others. Ed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: 25 July 2007 19:00 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Secure clist On Jul 25

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: I know that in Wisconsin, for the few jobs that came up lately, there seems to be no shortage of people applying for them. Also, management seems to want to eliminate the positions, and make do with the rest of the staff instead of replacing

Re: Spam from SHARE

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Bob Shannon wrote: As much as I didn't care for it. IBM (when it co-hosted SHARE) never pulled this type of crap (excuse my english). The DEFAULT for any mailing should be NO unless I say YES IBM never co-hosted SHARE. Check your facts once in a while. bob,

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:55:32 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: Sigh... This was BEFORE that option was available. Please just remember it JUST WASNT ICKDSF it was a host of other no-no programs that were in sys1.linklib. It was amaspzap and others

Re: Spam from SHARE

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Jeffrey Deaver wrote: They just don't get it. Does SHARE get monies from the vendors for the mailing lists? Or for other participation opportunities? Is it possible that vendor advertising is necessary in order to be able to continue SHARE and keep the costs

Re: Spam from SHARE

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:42 AM, David Boyes wrote: ---SNIP- On the other hand, an organization that purports to provide IT education *ought* to know what is acceptable and not acceptable as good practice in a well-run IT organization. SHARE's IT decisions are just

Re: PDS to SEQ and back to PDS

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: --SNIP--- Consider what the requirement is. Someone trying to mass edit a bunch of members has a hard time convincing me an outage from using a free method to make multiple changes requires a

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
. They also work in an extremely politicized environment where VP's scream and curse at each other and the name of the game is to screw your co-worker . Ed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, July 26

Re: KEY8 CSA: Pro/JCL and Info/XE

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Doesn't VTAM OWN Kex x'0a ? Ed While I don't condone it, I don't see the exposure (unless the standard zOS problem state key mask includes key 10). -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen

Re: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE)

2007-07-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 26, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Listers - I must now put my two cents in. How much corporate sponsorship do you think Share gets? I would think most of their funding comes from the vendors. And the only reason the vendors provide sponsorship is so they can get at

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
unauthorised users rather than execs? without writing exit code it was impossible, AFAIK. Phil. z/OS Systems Programming Consultant Website www.zostek.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: 25 July 2007 18:21

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Anthony Saul Babonas wrote: DASDVOL profiles can help here.. This was before that option. Ed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:21 PM

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock Maybe I'm a bit unusual, but I have always wanted to visit Poland. Russia, too. I've been close. When I was an Army Brat during the Cold War we were

Re: IDC3332I ** INSUFFICIENT MAIN STORAGE in IDCAMS REPRO MERGECAT

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Thomas Conley wrote: SNIP-- Let me know if you've had problems like this in IDCAMS, so I can flesh out the requirement. War stories, comments, etc. also appreciated. Regards, Tom Conley Tom, I have done 2 or 3 repromergecats in

Re: MVS - Z/OS Job Market, What should the rates be?

2007-07-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 30, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Fletcher, Kevin wrote: Liz, how do I get elected to be President and CEO? :-) I can feel the money rolling in already. Thanks, Fletch Fletch: Consider yourself elected. (signed) honorary signer

Re: Question about the listserv

2007-07-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Chris Mason wrote: Tom In the early days of my using the list I quickly encountered the problem of the rejection of a post so carefully and painstakingly constructed. I was informed by some kind person - trying to give credit on the basis of feeble memory it

Re: IBMLink SEV 1 OUTAGE AGAIN!!! #32644395

2007-07-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 30, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: SNIP- Oh, I had a tossing and turning moment... Where does HONE live these days? Surely if the CE's are having these connectivity issues somebody's gotta be locked and loaded on fixing the darn thing. Probably

Re: Question about the listserv

2007-07-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Darren Evans-Young wrote: Oh give me a freaking break! Yeah, like I sit here and enforce the rules on Joe and not Bob, Harry, or Bill. That's just ludicrous, stupid, and insulting. Whatever rules (documented or not) are all automated. If my software sees

Re: Question about the listserv

2007-07-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 30, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Darren Evans-Young wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Ed Gould wrote: Correction: I sent you a rejected item saying I was not a member and asked why. I never heard back. I have no record of an email from you about being rejected...I save everything. The last personal

Re: Question about the listserv

2007-07-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Chris Mason wrote: Ed As others have mentioned, I think we should accept the decision of the umpire as final - particularly since he performs the task on the same basis that an honorary consul performs his/her duties. Scrolling to the end of a quoted post in

Re: IBMLink SEV 1 OUTAGE AGAIN!!! #32644395

2007-07-31 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Thompson, Steve wrote: - SNIP--- Meanwhile, if you contact Mr. Palmisano's office as I have, you might get more satisfaction. You might get a phone call from his people asking just what is the

Re: SOC4 in DFSORT with DB2

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 1, 2007, at 8:42 AM, George Bly wrote: Hi All We do have lnklst libs in the right spot. No steplibs in the utility jobs. But I did not link the svc because we have SMF=NO. IBMLINK is down and we just set another dump but we can't update the PMR. This is why it is important that

Re: SOC4 in DFSORT with DB2

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:16 AM, David Betten wrote: I don't want to circumvent the PMR process but thought I'd offer some a thought based on this information. Double check the storage class that the sortwork datasets are being assigned to and make sure the default unit count is 1. Sortwork

Re: IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes

2007-08-01 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:51 PM, CICS Guy wrote: Am I late? IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17998 Interesting thanks. I hope the IBMLINK issues aren't in anyway connected with this. If they are it will be a major

Re: Poll - Distance between Data Center and DR

2007-08-02 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: I don't have any real answers, just some comments. One bank I worked for had as their disaster recovery a 370/158 computer left in the basement of the bank after the datacenter moved 4 blocks away. No I/O equipment. My last full time job, we

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-03 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:21 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: Transmission time from the earth to the moon might be a problem however. :-) Dr WHo got around the issue with no problem :) Ed -- Mark Jacobs Technical Services Time Customer Service - Tampa, FL -- The secret of life is honesty and

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-06 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: Yes, but its really not practical to send data via the Tardis however. :-) -- --snip-- Sure it is the inside of he TARDIS is infinitely large, so the bit rate is larger than anything that is currently available:) Ed

Re: How to fine IBMLINK

2007-08-07 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:29 PM, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS wrote: There is no legal precedent preventing someone from Bookmaking a website in their web browser. IBM can ask that all they want but it is completely unenforceable. They were probably meaning that they didn't want other websites

Identity Theft - IBM lost his data

2007-08-07 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/ ibm_lost_his_da.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Slightly OT But Linux

2007-08-07 Thread Ed Gould
Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/ Sounds to be that this might be doable in IBM's version of Linux... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Slightly OT But Linux

2007-08-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 8, 2007, at 3:10 AM, Harry Williams wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:22:46 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/ Sounds to be that this might be doable in IBM's version of Linux

Re: CA Sues Rocket Software

2007-08-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:08 PM, McKown, John wrote: --SNIP- However, if CA in all good faith truly believes (for whatever reason) that Rocket Software has improperly acquired their source code, then they must do something. For all we know, CA __may__ have

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Ken Gunther wrote: Plus if I take my personal automobile to a DR test I get paid for mileage. Ken G. Ken: Not all the time. At one place I worked they would only give you the money *IF* you had a checking account at the bank that had the DR

Re: CA Sues Rocket Software

2007-08-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Robert Justice wrote: A few executives spending 20+ years in the slammer will bring a screeching halt to such crookedness. John P Baker agreed, but a few executives need to spend 20+ years in prison for other things too, might also stop some of this corporate

Re: PR: IBM Announces New Unified Enterprise Storage Management (IRMM)

2007-08-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: This is a big announcement with a long name to go with it: IBM Integrated Removable Media Manager for the Enterprise on System z V1.1. Call it IRMM for short, and it's yet another expansion of the mainframe software portfolio. IRMM helps

Re: IBMLINK and missing ETR records (13 minutes to report an issue)

2007-08-09 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Schramm, Rob wrote: IBMLINK for ETR is down. Can't open ETRs or view any ETRs. When I called the support number the queue for help is 13 minutes long. I am glad someone else could actually report the issue. IBMLINK Users Anonymous .. IUA new self-help group

Former CA Top Exec gets Tennis Camp

2007-08-10 Thread Ed Gould
Former CA chief reports to prison Tuesday http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9030118source=NLT_PMnlid=8 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

2007-08-11 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 11, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Shane wrote: ---SNIP-- Must say I'm surprised this hasn't elicited even one response. For as long as I've been in the business, it has not embraced new talent - getting a start was always hard. People prefer to pay for knowledge rather than train

Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-12 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.nwi.com/articles/2007/08/12//business/business/ doccf453a582e31d2d38625733300612318.txt Out with outsourcing? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Kelman, Tom wrote: -SNIP- I agree that techies for the most part don't make good managers. I was one of those techies that moved into management. I was actually moved from the position of lead capacity planner to the director of

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Craddock, Chris wrote: --SNIP--- This is pretty much exactly what happened across the industry in the late '70s through the mid '80s. Even to peons like me. I got a metric boatload of formal classroom training, for which I was (and am) very grateful.

Re: IBMLink Stability Update

2007-08-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 13, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Mark Jacobs wrote: From the IBMLINK News page; Because of the recent problems with the IBM Web Authentication system and their affect on IBMLink/ServiceLink availability, we have conducted additional investigations into the stability of the IBM Web

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: From Ed Gould: http://www.nwi.com/articles/2007/08/12//business/business/ doccf453a582e31d2d38625733300612318.txt Out with outsourcing? Someone should tell the IBMLINK folks!!! I am not a fan of outsourcing and to psuedo threaten

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: From Ed Gould: http://www.nwi.com/articles/2007/08/12//business/business/ doccf453a582e31d2d38625733300612318.txt Out with outsourcing? Someone should tell the IBMLINK folks!!! I am not a fan of outsourcing

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: Dave O'Brian said: Ed, Recently IBM had announced the transitioning of some 10K programmer jobs from Europe and the US to India. Perhaps the problems that we are seeing with IBMLINK is an outgrowth of that decision. Perhaps that is

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:53 PM, esmie moo wrote: Just to add my 2 cents. Who is running the computer systems for LAX? My flight was delayed 15 hours. Do they have heavy accents? Not to add to much fuel to the fire. There was an article about hospitals and CAT_SCANS. Some (most?)

Re: ICKDSF Intilize question.

2007-08-14 Thread Ed Gould
Howard, Of course there is... but you must know what you are doing:) //zap exec amaspzap //sysprint dd sysout=* //syslib dd dsn=format4.dscb,disp=old,unit=sysallda,vol=ser=volser //sysin dd * The superzap statements are up to you:) Ed On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Howard Rifkind wrote: I

Re: Listing HIPERS

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Steve Runtsch wrote: I'm looking for something much easier.either using IBMLINK or ShopzSeries to just get a list of HIPERS without having to pull maintenance, etc. Thanks. Rgrds, Joseph Sumi This does not require downloading maintenance, only ENHANCED

Re: Listing HIPERS

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Tergerson, John wrote: SNIP__ Ed, if you really have nothing better to do than look every half hour for additional HIPER maintenance, you really need a life :) Yesterday is current enough for me. John If that is what is good

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 16, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Craddock, Chris wrote: Bob Shannon said I had the opposite experience. As a rookie I went to classes all the time. Ah, the good old days ;-) Me too. My boss used to bring the IBM education catalog around every quarter and I'd have to pick something relevant.

Re: Listing HIPERS

2007-08-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Tergerson, John wrote: Ed, Joseph's question was about how to monitor HIPER fixes, not about how and when to apply maintenance. I try to always go through a current round of RSU maintenance before a product goes into production to keep it as current as possible

Re: Compuware FileAid vs File Manager, more...

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Katie Thorpe wrote: Hello! We are considering the viability of switching our Compuware products (Fileaid, Abendaid/XLS, Abendaid/CICS) to IBM replacements. We are a very straightforward mainframe installation with no database involved. Has anyone done that,

Re: Distance between primary and DR site

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/05/2007 at 08:42 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I take it that you have not considered the possibility of a supernova. The Sun is a yellow dwarf; going supernova is not an option.

List of Withdrawn products from IBM

2007-08-18 Thread Ed Gould
The list of withdrawn products at http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10451 was a pleasant surprise to me. I do not want to disagree with IBM (at all) in their announcement. I think that this list was a long time in coming. I just wish there was a better way to

Re: List of Withdrawn products from IBM

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 19, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: Is the SHARE MVS group getting this type of information out? Given that the TechDoc was written by Bette Brody, and given that Bette attends every SHARE, it's a given that the information was disseminated. If it makes you feel better,

Re: List of Withdrawn products from IBM

2007-08-19 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 19, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: At the last full time job I had, I always got a letter from IBM at least a year before any product that we had was going to be withdrawn. I'm not sure what the problem is. If the product is withdrawn from marketing, you shouldn't be able to

OT but may impact a lot of people on here

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Gould
* Identity attack spreads; 1.6M records stolen from Monster.com http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1971713/20890881/75597/2/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT but may impact a lot of people on here

2007-08-20 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Ulrich Krueger wrote: Oh, that chaps my hide! I'm currently a customer of Monster myself, while looking for a job as z/OS sysprog in the San Jose, CA area. So now my personal information is probably in the hands of some bad guys ... and you know what? I

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