Re: What are they trying to tell me?

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Stack
Unacceptable maintenance? At 08:29 AM 4/19/2008 -0700, you wrote: ++ HOLD(UK32495) SYS FMID(HLE7740) REASON(ACTION) DATE(07354) COMMENT ( * FUNCTION AFFECTED: LANGUAGE zENVIRONMENT(PK54439) * *

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Stack
don't know of any pointer diagrams for even a subset. Here's a slightly dated diagram, but it may convey the flavor [thanks to Paul Hrycewicz]: http://www.kcats.org/pub/CB%20Diagram.pdf Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc

Re: IBM PR: Almost Introducing the Extraordinary New XXXXX

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Stack
It's nice that this announcement coincides with the X meeting in Orlando that week. Should we presume that there will be sessions on X at the X meeting? Michael Stack At 10:34 PM 2/12/2008, you wrote: Copy of an invitation which I think this audience may be interested

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

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Stack
and 2005. All of these factors are contributing to a famine in IT-related skills in the U.S. marketplace. ... --- Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Radix Partition Trees

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Stack
in mind that I'm NOT arguing that it doesn't apply, I'm just trying to understand it. Thanks! Michael Stack At 07:18 PM 1/11/2008, you wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Kevin Kelley) writes: I

Re: IBM LCS

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Stack
) computation, etc. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

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

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Stack
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Re: It keeps getting uglier

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Stack
, TN LCS? Fast? Maybe if the Same Day Service bit was on ... :-) Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VTOC Fmt6 (just curious)

2007-12-31 Thread Michael Stack
of SPACE=. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Use of TinyURLs - Unnecessary?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Stack
FWIW, Eudora handles all this just fine. Michael Stack At 01:11 PM 12/21/2007, you wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ansubtype=caappname=Demonstrationhtmlfid=897/ENUS207-175 In the message I received, the above URL

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Stack
experimenting with CP-67 on NIU's 360/67.) No one was happier than I was to see VM come back from the brink with the success of z/Linux (to which I admit very little understanding). I expect that ISU CS students will get a lot out of their experience. Mark Post Michael Stack Product

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Stack
in the state to offer its technology students both an undergraduate program in enterprise computing and hands-on access to such an IBM mainframe said nothing about z/Architecture. It was the enterprise computing phrase that was so annoying. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-15 Thread Michael Stack
. Michael Stack At 08:42 PM 11/15/2007, you wrote: Timothy Sipples wrote: IBM invests $5 million in ISU information technology program By Michele Steinbacher November 15, 2007 NORMAL — Illinois State University senior Joe Ksiazek is among those who say IBM’s estimated $5 million investment

Re: IBM Academic Innovation Initiatives

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Stack
. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: (OT) Former IBM consultant selling Waffles

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Stack
FWIW, Robert Rannie has developed a sequence of five 'Mainframe Operating Systems Boot Camp' sessions he plans to give at SHARE in Orlando. (In fact, he's giving the sequence this week at NIU as a brown bag lunch series.) Michael Stack At 10:02 AM 11/13/2007, you wrote: On Nov 13, 2007

Re: High order bit in 31/24 bit address

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Stack
mistake in the /360 design? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI No stack. I believe Amdahl said it himself. (I don't take it personally.) Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Control Program of OS/360 reel tape

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Stack
At 10:26 PM 9/6/2007, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:04:35 -0500, Michael Stack wrote: I had the 16mm film copied to videotape before I retired from NIU in 1999, then I digitized it to DVD for SHARE's 50th anniversary. I gave copies to a few people, and if someone has a few gigabytes

Re: Control Program of OS/360 reel tape

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Stack
I had the 16mm film copied to videotape before I retired from NIU in 1999, then I digitized it to DVD for SHARE's 50th anniversary. I gave copies to a few people, and if someone has a few gigabytes (and bandwidth) of server space, I'll be glad to make an ISO file available. Michael Stack

Re: SHARE Snubbery Report

2007-08-15 Thread Michael Stack
At 08:31 AM 8/15/2007, you wrote: Who has the most snubs so far? Regards, John K Just this morning I failed to snub Mark Zelden. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.

2007-07-22 Thread Michael Stack
under warranty). I have no reason to buy any other brand. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Michael Stack
vocabulary, not requiring each word (instruction) to be looked up? Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Share z/OS Mastery Test

2007-07-12 Thread Michael Stack
At 05:44 PM 7/12/2007 -0500, you wrote: Have you ever read Asimov's The Feeling of Power? I had forgotten it. Thanks for the reminder: http://downlode.org/etext/power.html Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-05 Thread Michael Stack
Michael Stack have a pony tail? He is more likely to be confused with Barry if he does. Mark At a SHARE meeting long ago, I was riding an elevator with other attendees (there are lots of elevators at SHARE meetings), when one of them began talking to me about tuning. After a few seconds, I

Re: Share conference schedule

2007-07-03 Thread Michael Stack
Barry, I just now tried the grid view, and it worked - apparently - just fine using Firefox 2 (I've never before tried that view). But if I switch away from Show all tracks I wind up in some non-Kansas location. There does appear to be a problem there. Michael Stack Product Developer

Re: SHARE meeting

2007-07-03 Thread Michael Stack
, the notion that there are any PFCSKs at SHARE is a bit mind-boggling since all I usually view is a sea of gray (especially in the mirror). :-D Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: 1401 The Musical

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Stack
At 08:00 PM 6/29/2007 -0500, you wrote: http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/IBM1401_Musical Thanks, Ed. Pretty much expresses my own reaction to some user manuals. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc

Re: IBM launches MySpace for mainframes

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Stack
. However, it is often true that - if the social side is done right - the best help comes from fellow users who've been through the same problems. Or, there's nothing that can beat SHAREing. Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc

Re: Cross-assembler : HLASM -- 8086

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Stack
to handle many environment issues (other than passing parameters in, and getting the response out). Thanks in advance, Mike Flint, Systems Consultant, Experian. Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcats.org -- For IBM

Re: Slightly OT but Germain

2007-05-19 Thread Michael Stack
Please let me say that, as one who also began attending SHARE meetings in the early '70s, I cannot thank you enough for including me in the young people. Made my day. Mike At 11:37 AM 5/19/2007 -0500, you wrote: ... When I started to attend SHARE in the 90's, it took me about 4 (or 5)

Re: Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Stack
bit = DASDM Interrupt Recording Facility bit Anyone remember that one?! Looks like a revision is in order?! Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcats.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Stack
they wrote the program, and the manual, I'm inclined to accept their title. My bad. I substituted Information for Identification. Mike Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcats.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Stack
Deaver, Engineer Systems Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] 651-665-4231(v) 651-610-7670(p) Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcats.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Stack
for that. (East side of DeKalb, commuting downtown). You? Or me? Mike On 4/19/07, Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of you know that I have decided to leave NIU and that this is my final semester (final month, now) teaching here. Reduced enrollments have taken their toll on computer

Re: The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Stack
. Mike ... Michael Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcats.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

The Death of the Mainframe (?)

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Stack
, and I just found a poster for the event in the hall outside my office. I thought the list might enjoy seeing the poster (designed by an English major friend of hers!). Clearly, there are reasons I will regret leaving. http://www.kcats.org/pub/MiliFlyer.jpg Mike Michael Stack

Re: Question about SuperWylbur

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Stack
NIU was the second site to have the original Wylbur, developed at Stanford by Roger Fajman and John Borgelt, and implemented here just about the time Fajman went to NIH. IIRC, Paul was still here at NIU at the time. Superwylbur was later written by Borgelt as a separate project, and incorporated

Re: DVLG Binder Requirement - interesting contradiction

2006-03-01 Thread Michael Stack
. --- C/C++ have been moved to the LNGC Project. Mike Michael Stack e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ear-mail: 1.815.753.9447 Computer Science Department fax: 1.815.753.0342 Northern Illinois University www: http