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for developing the z/OS market than the Linux/390
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of money for the specifications of
seldom-ending channel programs and QDIO.
Until such time as the OSA card interface is public domain, I guess
we're
stuck.
Is there any significance in the announcement that G4/G5/G6 now a
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that the cost is very far from insignificant.
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blocked
off.
The latter may have been during the temporary hiatus caused by the
Einstweilige Verf|gung, of course.
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about Suse's new
attitude to what many considered a lowest-cost environment is highly
relevant.
As thread drift goes, it was pretty tame - it stayed with Linux and
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software environment (IMO) easily compensates.
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for the investment.
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with a net
nanny?
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.
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rebranding.
Basically it all involves access to trademarks and consistency with
other IBM brands. But it's really convoluted.
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MS Office (and Lotus Smartsuite among others) proved him wrong.
I should have added he had the OS/2 market almost to himself. The
OS/2
version of SS had an appalling reputation, and Office? What Office?
The principal choices were Windows versions of WP, Office and SS, or
Describe.
You
their business (just as Jim Lennane's was his) and they
take their chance in the market.
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supports Linux on its
entire
portfolio of e-business servers.
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with vendors and work a lot with
them today - they certainly do monitor groups like this.
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/linuxonly.html - rather than
pester the group, I'll put relevant stuff up on that page as it turns
up.
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Announcement Letter for the
zSeries Linux offering is available:
http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annredon=102-030
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of the three Assembler programmers on the
team that maintained the code and not being able to remember how we
did it. I think it was EXCP. The bulk of the programme was actually
highly modular COBOL E and I remember the phenomenal difference
PARM=NOSPIE made to its execution.
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Google index it) you can find the code in seconds.
Of course, there are other issues. In enterprise environments code
and operations are separated for audit and control reasons. Also -
how well is the code commented.
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for z/VM with three years' subscription
in exchange for the 'crippling' of the microcode to make it into a
Linux-only box.
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has to be shipped at no charge.
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under the GPL:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
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on it, the likelihood of redistribution is
vanishingly tiny - I would say they have nothing to worry about.
And as has already been said - very few people will go into production
without specialist support contracts of some kind in place.
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suspect truly
frightens Microsoft is the continual peer reviewing that goes on.
Published and thus criticised code is the strongest of all.
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the beginnings of a revival - in
this sector.
The bald assumption that mainframe skills will inevitably decline is
unsupportable.
Industry analysts should revisit their own accepted truths once in a
while.
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bunch when it comes to
operating systems - OS2 exploitation went further and deeper in
Germany than anywhere else in Europe - some of my acquaintances still
use it for file serving at home.
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I haven't seen this discussed here, and it's not really news as such,
but discussion restarted late last week:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23956.html
A similar article appeared in Computerwoche this mornig, too:
http://www1.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pageid=254artid=32249
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,
is the fact that 60-65 percent of them were for
non-traditional workloads ...
A curious mixture. The '60-65%' figure is comparatively new - by the time it was
being widely
used, IBM was stating _1300_ sales of z900s.
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Yes, and the Ashton in Ashton-Tate was George Tate's macaw.
The Leica's original lenses were the Elmax (Ernst Leitz Max) and Hektor - both were
named
after dogs belonging to the man who calculated them, Professor Berek.
We now return you ...
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Never trust any computer you can lift.
Not sure I'm happy with that. I've been thinking for some time about replacing my
trusty
HP-41CV (1980 and still state-of-the-art) with a Linux-based PDA.
The comon denominator I worry about is Microsoft.
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' message.
We played around with numbers of initiators, various settings, spool layouts, etc.
If it makes any sense - most of the people in the little group doing the playing later
became
the founders of Beta Systems.
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See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24478.html;
The links to other Reg stories are well worth following, too.
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mySAP availability 31 May.
(Love to know what the delay has been. It was demonstrated at CeBIT _LAST_ year.)
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from the Devil's IT Dictionary - old definition still
at:
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Of course, T-Rex _is_ an extinct dinosaur.
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?
We elect our fair share of dorks here in the UK - it's gratifying to know that we
share more
than a language. Pi will be redefined a four before this Bill gets through.
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see the prices.
But I''m a cynic. If it works, go for it.
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+0100
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Now - if only it were SuSE Linux/390 ...
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of the hard-core porn spam is now pretty explicit. One
this
morning had six or seven mini-JPGs, the possession of any of which in the UK would get
me
arrested.
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And on there Sergey's posts are completely unreadable.
For example: http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.25434
I filter most strange CHARSETs to kill the Asian spam I sem to be receiving of late.
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- but it was something like: We have a shortage of mainframe
skills. Imagine what it would be like if we had access to hundreds of thousands of
college
kids, all of whom would programme for Cola.
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are prepared to revisit in the
interests of truth.
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.
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Microsoft backs off .Net plan
http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=155663576i=500076m=1d=2523512
It's more a case of not being accepted by business in general, plus a LOT od data
protection
concerns in Europe.
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be
stranger
yet for that to happen without him being informed in advance. Did they do that, and
did they
give a reason?
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group.
This is going on far too long, considering this is the Linux group. There's an
unlinked copy
on my site at http://www.isham-research.com/insult.txt
Be warned - it does contain obscenities. This is not great prose.
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has been congratulated.
Tell me again which company these people want to win over?
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to replace
their toy S/390 on a board product. That would also nicely solve the licensing
issue for non Linux OS's and generate IBM a tidy revenue stream as well as
letting them bury the expensive low volume hardware board.
Which they could also do (and have done once before) with FLEX-ES.
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is in software and not in hardware brings a fascinating aspect to bear.
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chopping of the
URL eventually produces a redirect to linuxvm.org
Overall it's a complete job - there were 69 references to Hercules in the old version,
and
there are none at all in the new one.
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to
http://liberti.dhs.org/public/computing/linux/emulators/hercules/hercinst.htm
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open
source code. To quote Irving Wladawsky-Berger: IBMers are geeks bearing gifts.
I don't doubt that Linux has a great future. I'm not sure it has a terrific present.
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.
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And don't get me started about the clay-tablet printer! ;)
We used to print Braille on 1403s. Weird.
You put strange backing paper in the gate, and you mounted a special ribbon.
Then you threw the paper away and sent the customer the ribbon.
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this stupidity on the Linux list.
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approach.
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Mainframers - at least MVS types - aren't used to thinking that way. A sile
as a stream of bytes is completely alien to them.
System types, or application types? We've had RBA since VSAM I - lots of things like
DB2 logs
are RBA-governed.
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, and I think it will seriously
impact
Hercules' credibility with corporate management when they see the kind of people they
would be
doing business with by adopting Hercules.
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.
to
be
inviting Yahoo to shut it down preremptorily - hardly prudent behaviour with a
resource that
is such an important part of the effort.
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receiving lately has been
enough to
make my stomach turn. One item a couple of weeks ago contained six or seven vignettes
of some
of the hardest core porn you could imagaine.
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with IBM, since that is what its
customers have and desire.
And, I suspect, it is largely what the members of this mailing list have and desire.
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). And CP/67 was hosted virtually, and CP/67 begat VM/370, and VM/370
begat .
I would like to shake the hand of the guy who came up with 'Conversational'.
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The
Hidden Speed
of ISAM.
Anyone still have a copy?
There's a rhyme in German:
ISAM ist langsam,
VSAM is grausam.
ISAM is slow,
VSAM is horrible.
And yes - in German it both scans and rhymes.
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Nope, it is not.
Yes it is. The License Manager, for instance.
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. Some
people
may have decided to preserve the safety of their anonymity by browsing the archives
rather
than receiving the emails.
In the case of one list, I 'subscribe' by downloading the web pages with Teleport Pro
and stripping them using REXX.
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have the luxury of being able to specialise - journalists have to write about blade
servers
one minute, TCP/IP v6 the next, and digital cameras after that - and get all the
stories past
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is a breach of the license
agreement -
one of the sanctions IBM (and/or any ISVs) has is revoking the original license.
Interesting
thing to have to explain to management.
And 'disaster recovery' provisions _don't_ cover it.
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I recall seeing the S/360 architecture's operations defined (in
an old IBM Systems Journal) using APL. Yeah, BOCHS written in
APL would have wonderful performance... NOT!
http://www.samueljohnson.com/dogwalk.html comes to mind.
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Subject: [OT] Microsoft in Peruvian open-source nightmare
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html
See http://www.bundestux.de/ for something similar in Germany.
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it with the remote copy to recreate the changed block.
Initial tests suggest an eightfold circuit capacity reduction is possible. Doesn't
solve the
latency problem, but cuts the bandwidth requirement.
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not want to take advantage of it.
Cost. Especially middleware.
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Historically Meta have always been very anti Linux ...
http://www.itworld.com/nl/it_insights/09042001/pf_index.html ?
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are
something
no vendor can fix quickly. The whole point fo IBM is that all of their
implementations can
access a common skills pool in the market.
Perhaps Meta are mentally rerunning what happened to UNIX.
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.
As an exercise, try to produce a business model for OS/360 - a free (even public
domain)
operating system that cost IBM billions with no obvious return.
Except total domination of the world's enterprise computing market.
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.
If you wrote a synthetic kernel benchmark (the Finanzamt Charlottenburg in Berlin did
this)
that could be contained entirely within 512 bytes, the performance of the 3033U and
3033S was
identical.
Biut when you tried a real workload, the 3033S was less than half as fast.
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http
http://www.perfassoc.com/flex-es_io_performance_02.pdf
for an example - it's not unusual for 18 MIPS emulated systems (running on a 1GHz Intel
processor) to run two or three times as fast as on external DASD.
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. The
first step
is to define terms of measurement, and these must be related to real world and real
user
issues, so that the results are relevant to their audience.
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products. LSPR is the
best
example, though even there things like buffer pool redefinitiuons tend to blur the
numbers.
But who should verify and who arbitrate over the inevitable arguments?
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of installing in a
thousand
years. Exotic front end preprocessors, various bits of error recovery and/or
transaction
logging turned
off - that kind of thing.
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of
around
30. Cheryl's stuff is available at http://www.watsonwalker.com
He didn't believe me when I told him that synthetic loops were discredited over three
decades
ago - perhaps he'll believe someone of Cheryl's status.
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No one really knows what this _means_ yet. So far it's just marketing
verbiage:
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701a=27405,00.asp
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=254artid=36712
The gist is interesting. I paraphrase the second paragraph very roughly: Following
the
events of September 11, it is felt that public security can be better served by
avoiding
monocultures such as Microsoft's Windows.
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that. Then it's the vendor's
responsibility to propose a correctly configured system in the first place.
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Sorry to disappoint you, old friend, but I seem to recall that Rolf
Harries was born in Cardiff!
To which the logical reply is: What did he do to a sheep to get to Australia?
However - he was born in Perth, Western Australia.
(I think his wife - Alwen - might be Welsh.)
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Oh boy, australian jokes about sheep... outside the scope of
listserv guidelines...
I would have thought any discussion of Rolf Harris well outside 'list guidelines'.
Yet it's my post you pick on ...
Do I expect yet another censorship attempt?
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in the migration from 31-bit OS/390 where logical
partitions are, at most, 2 GB of central storage plus optional expanded
storage, to 64 bit z/OS, where logical partitions use only central
storage and no expanded storage.
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http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220020617jdt01.htmfromtm=e101-2
An interesting article with some postive things to say.
It was when I read it first thing this morning. I just went back for another read and
got a
login page.
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Good job for CA they're better at charging for software than using it.
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Hello from Gregg C Levine
Just your average web page ...
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\LocalSettings\Temp\~7458936.htm is a web page?
On whose system?
THAT is my point.
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it through to the list, it's no help either. (Did
Mr. Santalucia actually read what he wrote and expect it to be reasonable? I
can't imagine!)
If you get a _real_ weird note from Gregg Levine - don't worry about it. I posted
almost
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/0,229592,20265208,00.htm
Within two years mainframe linux will be irrelevant.
Can we have some consistency here?
Or is it a case of http://www.isham-research.com/reprints.html ?
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of the Internet is broke.
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storage group.
IBM will have to be careful - this is starting to look like a strategy.
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): 4MB is our mantra.
And also his exhortation in the Tycoon video: Take every one of their good ideas
and make
them our good ideas.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26230.html
I wonder what the odds of an MS-Linux distribution are?
Where would they get all the bugs?
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