Fwd: IBM and Texas – Outsourcing troubles part two

2010-09-03 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Did you see this article ? Several threats and a long letter detailing what it calls “chronic failures” of agreed service levels, Texas has made another move in its efforts to fix a seven-year, $863 million outsourcing contract with IBM that’s gone bad. The Texas Department of Information

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-03 Thread Anton Britz
Summary of the article in the Computer World : 2005 : The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) outsources the management of its data centers to Northrop Grumman through a 10-year, $2.4 billion contract

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-01 Thread Anton Britz
Did you see the quote at the bottom of their Web page ( Looks like a typical Fox channel comment ) ? Here it is (Cut and pasted into this email ) : Note: Earlier reports that 27 agencies were impacted were incorrect. The correct number is 26. The 27th system impacted was Northrop Grumman.

Fwd: RE: Looking for 4 DBA’s with z/OS experi ence-Remote

2010-07-28 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Somebody in IBM is trying to generate a false perception of JOBS out there. (See all the email's below) Imagine that ? Smoke and mirrors from IBM after they have been dumping people all over the WORLD all the time. Note: This type of behavior only works for people that watch the FOX

Re: Migrate From Mainframe? To What?

2010-06-30 Thread Anton Britz
Did you go and check who and what Merv Adrian is all about ? This is what he claims to be (Claim to fame ) because surely, we are not going to listen to anybody that want to sell us anything out there : http://www.itmarketstrategy.com/About_Us.html On 6/30/2010 10:04 AM, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR

Re: Migrate From Mainframe? To What?

2010-06-30 Thread Anton Britz
George, a) I did not see the Wilhilm G Spruth White paper but b) If I GOOGLE for Wilhilm G Spruth, I conclude that ' - He has devoted his academic life/work to IBM - IBM has given him a Mainframe... for FREE - He looks about 80 years old to me - IBM even posts his profile and work

SHARE Your Feedback: Your Organization’s To p Enterprise IT Issues in 2010

2010-06-28 Thread Anton Britz
For those people that are bored all day and PUMP 500 messages per week into IBM-MAIN : Original Message Subject: SHARE Your Feedback: Your Organization’s Top Enterprise IT Issues in 2010 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:43:06 -0500 From: SHARE Headquarters shar...@share.org

Re: Ten years of IBM mainframe Linux

2010-06-08 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Anne or Lynn, This is all AIRPORT TALK type stuff..(Think, you meant to post this on the Oprah Show ) : http://www.oprah.com/index.html When are the Real people in the USA IT world going to stand up but nobody in the field is doing what this Airport article suggests : Extract from this

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-17 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Linda, Yes, my point was, that it was EXAGGERATED using FEAR for profit purposes. There was no need to upgrade all the Mainframes/Desktops/Servers/Operating systems etc. The place I worked at, spent 16 Million Dollars, on upgrading all the PC's in the Organization and each PC received a

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-16 Thread Anton Britz
This type of article re-appears every two years.. It's suppose to make you fear and maybe you will subscribe to their magazine. Remember the Y2K thing'gie ? How many of those Prophets of Doom knew what they were talking about but it worked for most executives. Anton Note: Another

Re: 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM

2010-04-22 Thread Anton Britz
Elardus, The article was written in South Africa. You think the author of this article read the IBM financial results that was published this week ? ( In the USA ) I do not think so... in fact, I know he/she/it did not read it and maybe tried to justify the advertising revenue given to them

Re: 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM

2010-04-22 Thread Anton Britz
fell 17 percent. Conclusion : Stop reading ITWEB because the news is TEN years old in there... Anton On 4/22/2010 7:02 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Anton Britz wrote: The article was written in South Africa. Of course. You think the author of this article read the IBM

Re: 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM

2010-04-22 Thread Anton Britz
Timothy, IBM's claim to fame is all about manipulating their prices when the customer has no other option.. If you read the book about IBM and their Business plan then you will see that it's all about : Trying to get as much money from UNKNOWING/NAIVE customers and making them feel proud to

Re: Crazy idea for a desktop integration with z/OS project?

2010-03-19 Thread Anton Britz
Martin, I understood your posting.. Some of us do not need a manual, to be able to understand So, you can not apologize or change your ways for every Dick, Tom and Harry... I think Note: I only posted this because it's Friday. I am amazed at all the trash some people post to this list, all

SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Anton Britz
I received the following question this morning : We are busy installing a SL8500 ATL with STK 1 drives TST1 *Control Unit List * Row 9 of 161 Command === ___ Scroll === CSR Select one or more control units, then press Enter.

Re: IBM Announces DB2 10 for z/OS Beta Program

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Timothy, Just for info : This was discussed on Facebook all day today. http://www.facebook.com/craigsmullins Anton On 2/9/2010 4:58 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: IBM is announcing availability of a beta version of DB2 10 for z/OS (5605-DB2):

Who wants to write a SLA for a BIG IBM Computer center ?

2009-12-03 Thread Anton Britz
Who wants to come write a SLA for a BIG IBM Computer center in IDAHO ? http://tinyurl.com/yzyo3c7 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

2009-10-12 Thread Anton Britz
'Amateur' IBM brings down Air New Zealand By Joe Fay • Get more from this author The boss of Air New Zealand has launched an astonishing attack on IBM after a catastrophic system crash crippled the airline and left passengers stranded. The massive IBM letdown could see the vendor turfed out of

Re: Librarian to Endevor Conversion--Need Pull all Archive Levels from Librarian

2009-08-25 Thread Anton Britz
Build different PDS'se with the date in the PDS name, for the different Librarian Archive levels and then HSM and ENDEVOR can handle it.. VSAM file ? You need to write more code.. and for what.. Anton Hessong, Keith wrote: Greetings: My shop is converting from Librarian to Endevor.

Re: IBM aims System z at specific workloads

2009-08-17 Thread Anton Britz
Timothy, a) You need to quote references, if you want to talk about market trends.. b) Growth and emerging markets ? The news briefs did mention that and gave reasons why etc. etc. c) Why on earth wouldn't you choose System z. Any rational business would: it's far lower risk and

Re: IBM aims System z at specific workloads

2009-08-15 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Here is a better version of the announcement but the horse is already out of the barn Summary: IBM needs young fit people in their Senior Management that can bring new ideas and enthusiasm back into our World before the users find other solutions to their problems. What they are

Re: IBM aims System z at specific workloads

2009-08-15 Thread Anton Britz
Here is the URL to the version I read : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/ibm_mainframe_bundles/ Joel Wolpert wrote: http://www.itworld.com/software/74638/ibm-aims-system-z-specific-workloads I found this particularly interesting: System z sales have plummeted during the economic

Middleware Consolidation in the Market place... Who's next to FALL ?

2009-08-11 Thread Anton Britz
BMC Buys MQSoftware, Bolstering Middleware Management BMC on Monday said it has bought MQSoftware, maker of middleware that hel ps companies monitor the performance of IBM's WebSphere MQ software, as well as other platforms. Terms were not disclosed. Leave a comment By Chris Kanaracus Mon,

Re: help with smf

2009-08-04 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Have you got a Security package ex. Racf/Tss ? Do it with the security package Much simpler.. Anton larry macioce wrote: I have a ps file that is getting changed and I need to find the job doing it.I need to know which smf records I need to pull to get the info. I've looked through

Re: help with smf

2009-08-04 Thread Anton Britz
: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: help with smf Hi, Have you got a Security package ex. Racf/Tss ? Do it with the security package Much

[Fwd: ORACLE :When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get ???]

2009-07-30 Thread Anton Britz
ORACLE decides to say GOODBYE to z/OS The thought of a software vendor discontinuing support for a product is enough to give you nightmares. Straight away, you're faced with a project to migrate to something else – the bigger and more important

IBM Share Austin March 2 2009 conference feedback

2009-04-08 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, My apology for posting this late, but I paid $3000 to go there and the organizers need feedback, to keep the quality up : a) General Session Keynote - Miles O'Brien Green Technology Was he related to any of the Share board members ? I have never seen such a bad General Session in my life.

Re: SMPE Retry problem.

2009-01-22 Thread Anton Britz
Howard, Seriously, you work for a bank in NYC, why do you not apply for Bail Out' money and then you go to an Island in the West Indies ? Otherwise, I would have to ask you, which IBM lecturers taught you because we need to retrench 16,000 IBM employees and you can help us, with this task.

Re: Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend

2009-01-21 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I still do not understand how these companies, listed on Wall Street can use their Labor force as a Make our Financial Results look good resource ? Exxon Mobil did it.. Before announcing record profits.. then outsourced to Brazil etc. Lehman Bros. did it and then announced record profits

Re: Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend

2009-01-21 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Your first article was created by KPMG , an audit, tax and advisory firm in the USA.. that we all can trust, such as ACCENTURE... registered in BERMUDA so that they pay no taxes in the USA legally. Sounds like what we heard for 8 years : Cut Taxes for Corporates and spend more because

Re: World Bank bans India outsourcer Satyam for 8 years

2009-01-15 Thread Anton Britz
argued as follows : a) SATYAM is too BIG to fail b) It's in National interest to BAIL them OUT c) Break all previous established laws because the security of the Indian economy , is at stake Anton On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:00:01 -0600, Anton Britz antonbr...@gmail.com wrote: But in India

Re: World Bank bans India outsourcer Satyam for 8 years

2009-01-12 Thread Anton Britz
But in India they are still old fashioned... Executives still go to JAIL They have not heard of Bail out money or where as in the USA, they are placed in house arrest for losing 50 times the amount Satyam lost. At the start of the Iraq war, they lost 1 Billion but that was accounted to old

Re: World Bank bans India outsourcer Satyam for 8 years

2009-01-07 Thread Anton Britz
BANGALORE: The chairman of Satyam Computer Services, India’s fourth-biggest software services exporter, announced his resignation on Wednesday, triggering a 73.1 per cent drop in the company’s share price, and dragging the main share index down by 7.36 per cent. ‘I think there is no future

Hope is on the way for those OUT OF OFFICE messages from IBM

2009-01-06 Thread Anton Britz
The layoff date is January 23rd. Approx. 16,000 employees worldwide will be affected. The majority from the US. I heard this from a 2nd line mgr. Confidentiality agreements were signed in the upper ranks to keep this hush, hush, but nothing this big stays out of the light for long. Good

World Bank bans India outsourcer Satyam for 8 years

2008-12-24 Thread Anton Britz
The World Bank has barred India's Satyam Computer Services – the aid institution's largest software vendor and India's fourth-largest outsourcing company – from doing business with it for eight years. On Tuesday, World Bank confirmed earlier reports of the ban in a statement that said Satyam

Re: CA World in Las Vegas

2008-12-02 Thread Anton Britz
SAm, How many people attended this thing ? What was the best thing you heard ? Which speech got the most attention ? Was it all worth it , to go there and listen to all the Ra Ra.. Anton On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:55:41 -0500, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CA-WORLD had a very significant

Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas

2008-12-02 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I agree with the Investment banker ... and disagree with the Ims utility developer from Tom DeLay's country or the Secession state.. Buy the DVD and copied it all over the place. The Advantage of the PDF's ? Some how it's easier to print parts of a PDF. BookManager does not or will not

Re: Startio Question

2008-11-21 Thread Anton Britz
Lindy, What are you trying to do ? The BIG picture... not the story of trying to be a Virtual Device in zOS because there is other ways of doing the same thing, that will cost you much less effort ex. Creating your own Sub-system , with all open/clean IBM api's and examples on the Share tape.

Re: Startio Question

2008-11-21 Thread Anton Britz
I do not get it ... understand how things work ? What is your overall objective ? Are you trying to write an Operating System or are you just trying to ask an intelligent question on an IBM email list because the SAS institute does not know what to do with you. Anton Lindy Mayfield

Re: Allocated Dataset Question

2008-11-20 Thread Anton Britz
Howard, Have you got access to a set of IBM manuals ? ( And please do not send your TEST message every week or otherwise we need to take your Internet access away in that old age home of yours ) In the operators manual : D GRS {[,SYSTEM|,LINK|,ALL|,A|,DELAY|,D|,SUSPEND|S]}

Re: CA World in Las Vegas

2008-11-14 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, a Contigent of Geico people or a 'Contigent of Cave-men ? Could you take all those Contigent of GEICO adverts with you too.. we are getting tired of all those funny GEICO adverts. I think, it's better if GEICO puts all that Advertizing money into quality of service to real customers.

Re: CA World in Las Vegas

2008-11-14 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Because it's Friday, I will respond to the question: Do I like anybody? a) Yes, I like Sam and what he has done for the IBM community b) Yes, I like Dr. Barry Merrill and what he as done for the IBM community c) Yes, I like people that have a passion for what we do for a living d) Yes, I

Re: Mainframe Jobs Considered Recession Proof

2008-11-12 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Depends where and for who, I suppose ? I am not so sure this statement applies to the following : a) The banking/Investment sector b) The Car industry c) American Express d) The Retail sector e) EDS/HP f) The Re-insurance business... AIG/GENRE g) The unknown sector that received $2 trillion

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-07 Thread Anton Britz
Seeing that it's Friday and we are talking about these things, I remembered some IBM trainers/lectures that I was fortunate to have met : a) Willy Gholler ( I hope I am spelling this correctly but this is my memory speaking ) About 1978 - 1990 IMS/DL1 trainer and lecturer in Johannesburg,

Re: Problem Allocating DSN - 5000 CYl

2008-11-07 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Barry, Is this thee Dr. Merrill that wrote those SMF/Operating systems difference book I bought in the 80's or is this his Grandson speaking. I forgot what it was called, but it was a piece of work at the time. Amazing , that you are still around. Anton On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:46:12 -0600,

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Anton Britz
Steve, You have been around to block, so lets try and ask more questions before we get into a debate about 1944 or 1945 ex. a) What is Mr. Goldberg trying to achieve ., Sales for CA or sensation/hysteria b) What lists are you cross posting too c) How much money are you getting for the

Re: [Fwd: IBM's team for TEXAS - T4T

2008-11-03 Thread Anton Britz
Found more on this on a UK web site : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/03/ibm_texas_backups/ Texas fines IBM for 'crucial back-ups' failure Track this topic Print story Post comment Server crash puts prosecutions at risk By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Posted in Storage,

Re: Best way to force jobs to a specific LPAR

2008-10-31 Thread Anton Britz
What about VANILLA /*XEQ Purpose : Use the /*XEQ statement to identify the network node where the job is to execute. It performs the same function as the /*ROUTE XEQ statement. Anton On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:56:52 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good (and

Re: Best way to force jobs to a specific LPAR

2008-10-31 Thread Anton Britz
Final responds .. before we hit the weekend : a) Have you got any User exits in your shop b) have you got any Dataset naming conventions Then : a) Drop the ALIAS on the LPAR for those users that are not suppose to be on that LPAR b) User your IEFUJV to validate the users JCL c) or Jesexit6 to

Re: Can't Cancel a CICS Region

2008-10-31 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, MVS command : C BUSH,FORCE Note: Documented in the MVS operator commands manual but you are going to do damage to the other CICS'se too.. Maybe you should speak to the CICS systems programmer or even better, speak tot the MVS systems programmer. Anton On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:02:20

Re: Can't Cancel a CICS Region

2008-10-31 Thread Anton Britz
Bob, You are trying to teach : - Alaskan's how to waterski, I think... or - Alaskan's what Larry Craig does on that Yacht Club of his... You think, she knows what the boys where doing at the Yacht Club because Ted Stevens , was not a member ? Never mind back to work.. Anton

Re: Best way to force jobs to a specific LPAR

2008-10-31 Thread Anton Britz
Lizette, Have to read any comparison between RACF and TSS ? TSS can do the same with half the quantity of rescources supporting it.. If you need any TSS manuals, I would send you some.. ( It actually easier to read than the IBM manuals ) Never mind... if Palin can say, what she is saying...

Re: Many XEPHON magazines are now available at www.cbttape.org

2008-10-28 Thread Anton Britz
Thanks.. What should we call this ? Redistribution of the Wealth We just need a BIG Wikipedia site to index all of this wealth... at some point.. Was there really so much AIX interest out there ? Anton -- For IBM-MAIN

Shadow from Data Direct ?

2008-10-28 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I was asked today, for the names of large companies that use Shadow from Data Direct ? So, if your company is using it, would you mind to respond with the current release number of the version, in use, please ? Anton --

[Fwd: IBM's team for TEXAS - T4T

2008-10-27 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I received this sad story in my Email In-box. and I am putting it on the list because I lost touch with what is happening in Texas.. Is there anybody from IBM that would like to comment on this ? The attached news story reports a failure of IBM T4T to backup critical network

Re: A Security SubSystem question

2008-10-14 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, It's inside each RACF macro.. Every RACF macro use to test , to see if RACF is in system and active. S, just assembly a macro with 'print on,gen' Anton On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:34:59 -0400, Scott Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I am in the process of writing an Assembler routine to

Re: PDS LOCk

2008-10-09 Thread Anton Britz
Ram, I was also in the Outsourcing business for 10 years so here comes my opinion : a) You have to speak/find the Software support staff for the Computer that you are working on b) Tell them what you want to do and then ask them, what do they think you should do. They would help you, if only

Subject: Doniparti Lakshminarasimha Rao/India/IBM is out of the office - 16th

2008-10-07 Thread Anton Britz
Out sourcing to India ? Lehman was part of this too and the executives yearly remuneration ? The chairman of the committee held up a chart suggesting that Fuld's personal remuneration totalled $480m (£276m) over eight years, including payouts of $91m in 2001 and $89m in 2005. Why do we not

Re: PDS LOCk

2008-10-07 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Ram, Do not get confused with all these technical discussions that you received but lets start at the very beginning : a) Are you a User , a Systems programmer or just a programmer b) If you say sensitive data .. what do you mean by that c) Who should be able to see this data ? ex. Only

Re: I love this job (was Re: PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE)

2008-09-18 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Yes... what about : PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE(Fed Bail us out here) PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE(RTC) PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE(Depends) PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE(Billion me again please) PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE(Fundamentally Strong) Anton On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:45:24 -0400, Mark

Re: z Education - IBM System z Expo (Oct 13-17, 2008)

2008-09-16 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Martin, 35,000 Ft above sea level or 35,000 ft below because according to what we read in the paper, everything in the UK is below at this point ? Anton On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:39:12 +0100, Martin Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I think having the presentations on CD without the

Re: ISFP default intrdr assignments

2008-09-12 Thread Anton Britz
baby drill.. She watches a lot of TV and she thinks they where talking to her.. most of the time. Anton On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:36:39 -0500, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:18:47 -0500, Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I change the default INTRDR

ISFP default intrdr assignments

2008-09-11 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, How can I change the default INTRDR assignments for ISPF to //? DD sysout=(A,INTRDR),DEST=DUMMY Summary: I want to change the default print location of all jobs to DUMMY without inserting a route print card into every job submitted. Anton

Re: A couple of memory/storage questions

2008-08-19 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, There was something on the CBT/Share tape called VSM, I think that does ALL of this for you, with comments and pointers etc. Should still be around... You could even run it in TSO and see the Storage maps etc. Anton --

Re: I Finally Got a Job

2008-08-13 Thread Anton Britz
What, My TV said that Wisconsin was going to help the NY Jets this season, not the RAMS. So, how many people do you think there is in St. Louis and are you going to buy them all a meal or are you taking some Cheese with you to St. Louis. Could you also send the world your Wife/sisters

zOs 1.7 JCL concatenation question ?

2008-08-12 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Why do we not see the concatenated SYSIN when we code the JCL the following way : 80 XXCMSYNIN DD DDNAME=SYSIN 81 //CMWKF02 DD DSN=SYS3.APRCB.PROD.UNDUP(+1), //DISP=(NEW,PASS,DELETE), //

Re: zOs 1.7 JCL concatenation question ?

2008-08-12 Thread Anton Britz
Hi vi01029, I do not normally respond with Thank you very much but this reply is worth a handshake or two.. Hal, thanks for responding too but it is nice to see vi01029 defending the way his product works. Note: Anybody saw the Microsoft blue screen of death during the opening of the

Re: IBM's financial results ?

2008-08-11 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I was actually trying to change the subject away from Pay roll discussions in California, discrete fully but we have some old daemon's hanging around with some how kick's in, when they see a name... So here comes feedback, based on some of your replies: a) Ted If you need money or a job

Re: zOs 1.7 storage pack allocations

2008-08-09 Thread Anton Britz
Thanks Ron.. What a Breath of fresh air. I started to think that most of the people still in the mainframe World are mental.. Received an email from my Kiwi friend working in NYC yesterday and all the people in his team, about 15 of them, had funny last names, implying that he was

IBM's financial results ?

2008-08-08 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Just to get all these Wandering minds on to something more productive : How do you think IBM keeps their financial results so rosy ? All the other vendors have annouced buy backs ex. Dell/Sun etc but IBM still announced fantastic results. Something smells fishy some where.. Anton

zOs 1.7 storage pack allocations

2008-08-08 Thread Anton Britz
Question : Would the following JCL allocation automatically use more than one storage pack on zOS 1.7 ? //DDEXPA1 DD DSN=SYS3.UCDCP.ADASEL, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // UNIT=(3390,59), // SPACE=(CYL,(1000,1000),RLSE), // DCB=(LRECL=27994,RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=0) Note: In the old days,

Re: IBM's financial results ?

2008-08-08 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, And the value of this posting are ? I never implied there is a conspiracy... I was refering to their accounting methods... Remember the CA debacle ? California accounting . IBM accounting. Get it ? DELL announced a big buy back , about 3 weeks ago. SUN did the same.. Check the IT

State of IDAHO feedback

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, We had so much bad IT press from some State IT departments lately, so I decided to share this piece of information : EPICS Replacement Project - Department of Health and Welfare Executive Summary The project leadership of Ryan Fullmer and Randy Ashton in the Eligibility Program

Re: IBM buys PSI

2008-07-02 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Ok, so for all the IBM'ers that do not have their Out of office message on, what does this press release actually say, because all I can conclude is that they dropped their respective claims against each other. What we want to know as customers : a) Can we still buy these boxes b) Will

Re: IBM buys PSI

2008-07-02 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Mark, The bigger question is actually : a) Did PSI just surrender because they do not have the spare cash to take IBM on or b) Did IBM detect a shift in the market place and tey are trying to counter by trying to expand their product offering in the down sizing market place instead of just

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-17 Thread Anton Britz
List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Outsourcing hits new low Hi Ron, Yes, because the Viagra Stimulus Checks would then stimulate your own Economy, taxes, roads etc. (Check the mess

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-17 Thread Anton Britz
Rich, Ask me a computer question then ? or if you look at the Thread Subject line .. it's says Outsourcing hits a new low So, I will explain that for you : Outsourcing : A hot political issue that got Egg all over Hillaries face a new Low : An expression of degree relating to a 'Political

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Anton Britz
Yes,, I ordered a Leather Recliner from Costco 4 weeks ago, for my Mother's visit from South Africa. So, this weekend, I phoned the Customer Support help line and I was routed to India. They requested my order number and did a computer look-up and just read to me , what I could see on the

Doniparti Lakshminarasimha Rao/India/IBM is out of the office - 16th and 17th Jun-2008.

2008-06-16 Thread Anton Britz
I will be out of the office starting 16/06/2008 and will not return until 18/06/2008. Conclusion : Now we know that Lotus Notes can even send out of Office messages for IBM from INDIA...Amazing stuff. Why am I reposting ? Because I have software grease monkeys in the USA that responds

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Ron, Yes, because the Viagra Stimulus Checks would then stimulate your own Economy, taxes, roads etc. (Check the mess Arnie is in currently.. Budget deficit wise but yes, I saw his wife on the Tim Russert show yesterday, talking from Sun Valley.. Ever been in Sun Valley ? ) Alternatively,

Adabas, zOs and WLM

2008-06-12 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, How many of you have different WLM defintions for a Day time load and a Night time load in zOs . The LPAR is running CICS, ADABAS, SHADOW ? I am trying to tell them the concept of having different WLM settings for the different parts of the day , is old fashioned ex. We have WEB

IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-07 Thread Anton Britz
Anybody saw in the NY times what the IBM CEO received for his efforts last year ? If I remember correctly, it was about 20 Million Dollars. In ONE YEAR. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/business/06comp.html? pagewanted=1_r=1sq=executives%20salariesst=nytamp;scp=2 Anton

Re: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-07 Thread Anton Britz
=1335067200partner=rssuserlandemc=rssamp;pagewanted=all Tom Harper -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ? Anybody saw

Re: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-07 Thread Anton Britz
or excessive, or out-of-line in any way, especially considering how well IBM has been doing recently. So I'm not quite sure why you decided to call our attention to it??? Tom Harper -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday

DFSMSDSS V1R07.0 and the CONCURRENT parameter

2008-03-05 Thread Anton Britz
. Specifying OPTIMIZE (2), (3), or (4) reduces the time for a dump. Notice that this keyword uses more real and virtual storage. It also keeps the channel busy for longer blocks of time. Anton Britz

Re: DFSMSDSS V1R07.0 and the CONCURRENT parameter

2008-03-05 Thread Anton Britz
Hi John, Thanks for the feedback.. We will implement your suggestions too but based on the job log output, it took about 5 minutes to do the dataset filtering : 23.35.51 JOB10904 -STEPNAME PROCSTEPRC EXCP CONNTCBSRB CLOCK 23.35.51 JOB10904 -ESPCCCHK 00 45

Re: The System z10s Are Shipping

2008-02-29 Thread Anton Britz
Timothy, Where are you and what are you doing now and where is it shiiping too or are you just getting excited because IBM is shipping something again to somewhere ? There was a guy like you doing the same in the 40's called Kilroy... so I have to assume you are shipping to IRAQ. Note: The

Re: Soft Capping

2008-02-13 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, The funny part of all of this , is the fact that IBM is the one that create all of this mess and now IBM tries to convince everybody to consolidate the Linux Servers on their boxes again. Next thing GM will do, after dumping all their employees, is to sell you cars with maintenance fees

Re: z/OS system programmer staffing

2008-02-11 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Forgot to mention if you are in the Military, you can do the same work with half the people you need in the private sector. That is what we had to in the South African Military with half the equipment that Carter decided to NOT give us.. Remember, Jimmy the peanut farmer and interest

Re: z/OS system programmer staffing

2008-02-11 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Don't worry John..the White House tried to slip a few Billion into the Budget last week , to save Health/IBM/IT sector.. It's ONLINE now and everybody can go and read it Only problem, they have to approve it and what I saw on C-SPAN, it was renamed as Dead on Departure... Never heard

Re: Bruce Lin/Dallas/IBM is out of the office.

2008-02-01 Thread Anton Britz
Can somebody in the Lotus support team, disable this stupid message. All the IBM'ers love to set this message. We do not want to know when you are on Vacation because everybody has access to their email 7 x 24 , while on Vacation these days. Note: If you can not access your email from home

Anybody used the new WLM service definition editor ?

2008-02-01 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Here it is : http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/wlm/ A Short description , if you do not have web access : The WLM Service Definition Editor is a workstation-based tool that helps = you maintain your WLM service definition. It integrates a FTP download/upload mechanism

IBM Tivoli Systems Automation and BMC's SIM

2008-01-30 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I was sent this question, this morning : I’d like to know if any of your clients ever ran the IBM Tivoli Systems Automation for zOS mainframe automation product with SIM and how you went about getting SA generated mainframe messages down to the SIM. Have you ever done an integration

IBM LOOKAT for Windows - On the zOSV1R9_Sept2007 DVD

2008-01-30 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Has anybody installed LookAt - Version 3.52 on their Windoze PC ? When I startup LOOKAT with the LOOKATGUI, it always defaults to a profile called zosv1r6.pro and I do not have such a file anywhere. I also searched for the LOOKAT books on the IBM LOOKAT web site and there is NONE. Why ?

Re: CA Aiming to Ease Mainframe licensing Costs

2008-01-24 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, CA aiming to lower costs ? Sending Consultants to your site for FREE to help you with CA products ? Am I wactching the comedy channel or the Political Cable Channels in the USA. Now I know how certain political candidates win Elections in the USA. Unbelievable stuff this and you have to

Re: Z Education Needs

2008-01-22 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, 'Comes to the site ? a) They need to know : 1) What the customer is licensed for 2) Who the audience is 3) What their Claim to fame is 4) What to indentify the Customers needs 5) When to say I do not know, but i will get back to you b) They should not have to 1) Have the latest bells and

Re: Bobby Fischer -- RIP

2008-01-18 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Darren, I still think you should introduce a Yellow Card system because it's the same posters posting junk every day. It's as if they think we do not have a TV at home and we need to see ALL the news on an IBM discussion list. One warning/strike and after that, they should be limited to

Re: Bobby Fischer -- RIP

2008-01-18 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Darren, As you can see from Herbie's posting, it does not take much to be called a Computer Professional these days.. Conclusion: I will take the Yellow card, limiting me to ONE posting a day but I think Herbie deserves one too. Herbie , just for the record, we all post junk some times

Re: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

2008-01-14 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I surrender : Do you guys get paid for the number of postings you make to public email lilsts ? Do you get hired based on the number of junk email jou can send all over the World ? Conclusion : There is no way that you can claim you are doing this accidently or that you want to Create

Re: Worst Predictions of All Time

2008-01-11 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Is there a possibility that we can limit these general whaffle type postings to one or two per week per person. Things we can account to being lonely in your hole ? Some of us, are constantly posting general type posting ex. What your GRandmother likes etc. into this list. We all love

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