Re: Mainframes.. Extinct or still going strong ?

As a mainframe centric software and services company, our business is seeing a growth trend. An interesting observation we have seen recently is where companies who have been migrating off of the mainframe are canceling those migration plans and staying on the mainframe. One such company was in

Re: Mainframes.. Extinct or still going strong ?

Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Robert Fake One such company was in the 11th year of a 2 year migration and finally canceled it and is taking advantage of z/Linux instead of distributed server farms and leveraging the Z's reliability, stability, performance and security. Bob

Re: Another pathetic job offer

Gee...That's mid-late 1980's salary. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at www.infosecinc.com The information contained in this e-mail message may be proprietary and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s)

Re: How old are you?

I'm 46 years old now. I started Assembler programming on a 360 when I was 18. Best move I ever made. I've always thought that the mainframes were here to stay and the move to non-mainframe platforms was driven significantly by the trade rags in the 90's. Our product and services business is

Re: Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code

Thanks Todd. More specifically, I'm looking at this from a maintenance perspective. If I give a programmer an existing program to modify, how long on average will it take, per line of code, to analyze the program to then be able to then make necessary changes. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc.

Re: Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code

Thanks all, I figured this was going to be abstract and hard to nail down. Wanted to be able to rely on some documented standard if available to base my estimates on. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at

Re: Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code

Reminds me as well of a bank's audio teller code (Assembler) I was made responsible for when I was about 20 and the comments were in German :-) Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at www.infosecinc.com -Original

Extract listing of production datasets

I have a need to generate a listing of all production datasets. The way the production datasets are identified is via the 4th byte of the high level qualifier. If the 4th byte is a P, it is production. For example: EGMP.DATASET.ONE and DNUP.DATASET.ONE are production. EGMT.DATASET.ONE and

Re: Extract listing of production datasets

Thanks for your input everyoneI really appreciate it. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at www.infosecinc.com -Original Message- From: Clark, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11,

Re: Virtual Tape Stacking Software

Hello Lizette, Take a look at CA VTAPE: http://www.ca.com/files/DataSheets/brighstor_ca_vtape_r11-5_ds.pdf Success story that discusses tape stacking: http://ca.com/files/SuccessStories/29989_county_el_paso_bvs.pdf It integrates nicely with CA1 as well. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc.

CA Auditor (Examine) for z/OS comparison

Hello, Does anyone have comparative documentation between CA Auditor (was eTrust Examine) versus other z/OS auditing products? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share that with me or point me to any known on-line resources where I can download myself. Feel free to send offline

Re: TLMS CopyCat Utility

Hi Carlos, CA CopyCat Link below. Perfect for migrating to VTS. To summarize: BrightStor™ CA-Dynam®/TLMS Tape Management Copycat Utility provides advanced software to assist the user with tape media conversions, media consolidation/stacking and media replacement operations. BrightStor

Re: CA web site

Hi Jon, I am not having any issues with SupportConnect KB searches. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. - Mainframe Software and Services Provider 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at www.infosecinc.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Did schools ever teach systems programming other than NIU was Re: help -- ignorant new boss

I attended (now defunct) Computer Learning Center in Northern Virginia in 1978, right out of high school. Like Eric mentioned, no systems programming, but mainframe basics (bits, bytes) and Cobol, Assembler and RPG. All work was done on a 360/xx and punched cards. Had to wait overnight to get

z/OS Consulting Opportunities

Hello everyone. From time to time we are contracted to provide z/OS related systems programming services. So as not to infringe on the IBM-MAIN list and folks that are not interested in z/OS consulting opportunities, if anyone IS interested in hearing about these opportunities, please send me

Re: still hunting zOS opportunities PA-MD

Here are a few mainframe shops in that general area. No idea if they are hiring or not. Good luck. COMPANY CITYSTATE U S Dept Army Directorate Info Mgmt Fort DetrickMD Pennsylvania Higher Educ AsstnceHarrisburg PA Penn National Insurance

DFSMS/RMM Tape Copy/Stack

Hi, I've searched the IBM-MAIN archives, but could find an answer to my question there. I have a customer who is interested in copying several thousand tapes to new tapes. They are an RMM TMS. Does DFSMS/RMM have a tape copy/stack capability? Any other thoughts? Client doesn't want to

Re: FLEX-ES PWD

InfoSec, Inc. has been tremendously successful via this program. We utilized the tServer T30 (Thinkpad laptop) system to develop The Automated Security Administrator (TASA) for CA-Top Secret, CA-ACF2 and IBM-RACF. This technology was acquired by CA in 2005 and is now known as eTrust Cleanup for

CPU Utilization? (was: Did you see this?)

If you are looking at SDSF and have multiple processors, it is likely that you are looking at CPU utilization across all of them. We used to look at utilization across all CP's: 1 CPU = 100% 2 CPU = 200% 3 CPU = 300% If you are using 1.5 CPU's, the result would be 150% (50% relative

Re: Control-O replacement

Take a look at CA's OPS/MVS. What is your reasoning for moving off of Control-O? Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at www.infosecinc.com -Original Message- From: Bill Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Control-O replacement

training. We have Zeke/Zebb/Oasis as our scheduling/restart package. (Wouldn't mind replacing those either) Bill Johnson Robert Fake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at CA's OPS/MVS. What is your reasoning for moving off of Control-O? Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241

Re: Conversion aid for ROSCOE RPF's to TSO CLISTS or TSO REXX EXECS

I had a similar experience to Steve...we could run 100 Roscoe users on just a fraction of the CPU of TSO. I would perform some performance/capacity planning studies before making the switch. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mainframe tape encryption

Hi all, Anyone using mainframe tape encryption to selectively encrypt DSN's on tape volumes or entire volumes? Successes? Issues? Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. http://infosecinc.com/PSU%20Form.html (click here for info on the InfoSec PSU program!) 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492