Doctor's Appointment at 9 am
Sorry for the late notice but they sprung this one on me yesterday afternoon. I need to have an EKG done before starting PT on my knee. I’ll be leaving at 8:30 but should not be gone too long. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Doctor's Appointment at 9 am
Sorry for the posting. I blame Outlook on the MAC Nuff said. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com Reply-To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Friday, September 12, 2014 at 8:32 AM To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Doctor's Appointment at 9 am Probably his out of office type email. Or, as happens _often_ at this place, it was sent to the wrong email address. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Leopold Strauss leopold.stra...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: And who should be interested in that in this forum ??? On 12.09.2014 14:21, Shiminsky, Gary wrote: Sorry for the late notice but they sprung this one on me yesterday afternoon. I need to have an EKG done before starting PT on my knee. I’ll be leaving at 8:30 but should not be gone too long. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards, Leopold Strauss, Team DEV-zOsUnix, T: +43-2236-27551-331 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows
Goodby WinXT, hello Linux! Too bad IBM dumped OS/2. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com Reply-To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 3:32 PM To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help?ocid=xp_eos_cl ie nt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows
Many developers who had used OS/2 offered to rewrite any non-IBM code that was in OS/2 so IBM could at least release it as open source. IBM declined. As we all know IBM has been very good at shooting itself in the foot over the years (multiple times). There is one vendor that still sells OS/2 under the name eComStation. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com Reply-To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 12:17 PM To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows Well, I think everyone's forgeting IBM never had exclusive ownership of everything OS/2--that explains a lot in my mind. -- not cent from sell May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig__ So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
Hi, If my memory serves me right, back in the 1970s there was OS/MFT, OS/MVT, OS/VS1, and OS/VS2. OS/VS2 morphed to OS/SVS and then OS/MVS(? Or maybe just MVS) starting in the 1980s. I worked on OS/VS1 Rel 7 back in the 79-80 time frame. I didn¹t get back to MVS till the mid 90¹s. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com Reply-To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Monday, March 17, 2014 at 1:51 PM To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems Helio Jose Da Silva wrote: Hello list, Someone can tell me the relevant differences between the MVS and z / OS systems? MVS was the prior name of what has become z/OS. What was started out as MVS in 1974 was renamed to: MVS/SP Version 1 MVS/XA Version 2 in 1981 MVS/ESA Version 3 (1988), Version 4 (1991), and Version 5 (1994) OS/390 (1996) z/OS (2000) Along the way have come a plethora of new and enhanced functions. There are more differences than there is time to list them. However, we still call the base control program (BCP) MVS in many contexts, such as in the names of various z/OS books, to differentiate it from the other 70-ish parts (elements) of z/OS. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché
When I was in the Army and stationed in Korea in the early 70 due to a payroll error I had to get advances. Then they started taking the advances out of my pay before they even fixed the problem making matters worst. COBOL is not at fault in this issue. It is incompetence. It is poor management, probably managers who shouldn't have been in data processing to begin with. How else would you loss all the documentation except for fire and water. COBOL, though fairly old, can be well written by a competent skilled programmers, having done that early on in my career. The excuse that some of the COBOL code was corrupted is stupid. Really, has anyone ever seen decay or rust in any code? Did it have bugs? No. Every bug I have ever seen has been actually some programmer's mistake. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: Phil Smith III li...@akphs.com Reply-To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:34 PM To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Blame the COBOL, how cliché http://preview.reuters.com/2013/7/9/wounded-in-battle-stiffed-by-the-penta go n So the reason the payroll system is broken is because COBOL is ³old²? Sheesh. That¹s really weakŠ Oy, and they tried PeopleSoft as a replacementŠ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché
Seems like what the bugs you experienced back then were more related to hardware malfunctions than actual programming errors. When I was in the Army in Korea we ran on Univac 1004 card processors. Occasionally the program card decks would would have problems due to wear and tear from going through the card readers. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net Reply-To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:25 PM To: IBM List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché On 7/25/2013 11:53 AM, Kirk Talman wrote: Every bug I have ever seen has been actually some programmer's mistake. Then you just haven't been around long enough g Back in the fifties and sixties, plenty of failures occurred due to machine errors. And some happened due to C.E. errors - in the seventies we had an extra 2MiB of slow memory on one machine, but the C.E. forgot to enable memory protection, so any errant program could overwrite foreign memory. Luckily I found the problem before our customers did. And some happened due to microcode errors. In the eighties we got a 4341, only to find ourselves unable to log on to TSO - it would 0C4 consistently. It took me a while to track this down - the MVCK instruction would fail when a string was split over a 2KiB boundary that wasn't a 4KiB multiple. Some time later we got a new floppy, and it still failed; IBM fixed the condition of one split string, but not the case when both were split. Some time later we upgraded to a 4381 - one of the first things I ran was my MVCK test program; yep, it failed. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
Try this link (it was posted earlier in this thread) http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf It's the 10th Edition from the early nineties. I have a printed version since the early nineties. I have not found any later edition. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 11:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!) Does anyone have a copy of the old JARGON FILE that buzzed around the IBM VM network in the '90s when i was working in Portsmouth North Harbour? I'd love to see it again. I think it included discussion of Bubblegum vs. Boeblingen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
