And don't forget inside attacks. DOGE firings, changes may result in missed Social Security payments, delays in payment enrollment. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/doge-actions-may-cause-social-security-benefit-interruption-ex-agency-head.html
On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.newera.com/INFO/Five_Keys.pdf > https://www.tridex.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-Hack-Db2-for-z_OS.pdf > https://badcyber.com/a-history-of-a-hacking/ > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM Dick Williams < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> LOLOLOLOL you people are hilarious. >> does z stand for in IBM Z?zero downtimeThe Z series (Z stands for “zero >> downtime”) introduced several breakthroughs that continue to be employed >> today. IBM z15. A raft of new features. The IBM z15 followed in 2019, >> running on the IBM System/390 chip architecture. >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Monday, March 3, 2025, 12:02 PM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Right, and it was "zSeries" (and pSeries and iSeries and xSeries), not >> z-series or z/Series or any other variation. And that name died in 2005. >> >> BTW, per IBM, "z/" = software; no slash=hardware. This gets blurry with >> things like z/Architecture, which they consider to be software, and >> zSecure, which they consider to be hardware, even though both could >> reasonably be considered the "other thing". But it's otherwise not tricky, >> even if a lot of vendors don't seem to have understood it. >> >> >> IIRC xSeries was because of x86. Or maybe I assumed that. >> >> My mnemonic was fuzzy but worked for me: >> z -- this one I could remember since it was everywhere in my world (z900, >> z/OS, z/VM, etc.) >> x -- x86 >> p -- Power >> i -- the other one :) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of Pommier, Rex >> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 11:32 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: The mainframe is alive >> >> What? IBM calls it "z series" because it's the end of the line? Where >> did you dream that one up? >> >> According to my memory - and Wikipedia (along with several other sources) >> agrees with me - way back when IBM rebranded their lines, they named the >> mainframe line the z series for zero down time. They named the RS6000s the >> p series for performance and the AS/400 line the I series for integrated >> because it comes with an integrated DB2 database. I don't know and don't >> care why the labeled the Intel based machines the x series. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
