Re: Job Loyalty

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

balbo...@att.net (Salah Balboul) writes:
> This is "Capitalism", making money is king. Every large corporation
> tries to sell this "Job Loyalty" to workers, however, rest assured
> this is a one sided affair. They want you to be loyal.
>
> Then again, think about it. When you start your employment at any
> company, the first thing you agree to is "At will employment", your
> employment with any company is a voluntary one subject to termination
> by you or company at WILL, with or without cause and with or without
> noticeetc.

June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the NYC Waldorf-Astoria
with major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do
business with the Nazis
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative-ebook/dp/B00V9QVE5O/

Later 5000 industrialists from across the US had conference at NYC
Waldof-Astoria and in part because they had gotten such bad reputation
for the depression and supporting Nazi Germany, they approved a major
propaganda campaign to equate capitalism with Christianity
http://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/

Results in the 50s include adding "Under God" to the pledge of
allegiance and "In God We Trust" to currency

AMEX is in competition with KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR. KKR
wins, but runs into some trouble with RJR and hires away president of
AMEX to help turn it around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco

IBM then has gone in the red and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby
blues" in preparation to breaking up the company. The board then hires
away the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect
the comapny ... using some of the same techniques used at RJR.
http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml

The industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S crisis that
they changed the industry name to "private equity" and "junk bonds"
became "high yield bonds"

The former AMEX president then leaves IBM and becomes the head of
another large private-equity company ... one of the take-overs is the
beltway bandit that will employ Snowden, there was huge gov. outsourcing
last decade to private equity owned subsidiaries; 70% of intelligence
budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

Both KKR and Carlyle recently show up in this (in large part harking back
to the "IBM Retirement Heist")
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/your-money/estate-planning/fiduciary-rule-is-now-in-question-whats-next-for-investors.html
and
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/06/donald-trumps-executive-order-will-let-private-equity-funds-drain-your-401k/

other

The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-champions-of-the-401-k-lament-the-revolution-they-started-1483382348?mod=e2fb

posts mentioning private equity
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity

trivia: we had left the IBM but get a call from somebody in the bowels
of Armonk about helping with the breakup of IBM. Business units had
MOUs with other divisions to work off their supplier contracts. With
the this units in different corporations, all these MOUs would have
cataloged and turned into real contracts. Before we get started,
the board has hired a new executive to reverse the breakup


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FRR Clarification

[Joe Reichman]

Hi,

 

When trying to cover my code I always choose an FRR If I am in Supervisor
State

 

*   Always get an SDWA

 

*   Would get control before an ESTAE

 

 

 

 

So If I'm In  SRB mode I have no choice in task mode I can code EUT=YES.
However now looking over the Doc "Once a program activates an EUT FRR it
cannot issue an SVC's"  

 

So while SETFRR is providing coverage the program cant issue any SVC's?  

 

  

 


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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Mike Beer]

z/VM still consists of CP + CMS:

Use the control program (CP) command language when:
- You are a z/VM system operator and you want to control the resources 
of the real machine

   located in your computer room.
- You are a virtual machine user and you want to control your virtual 
machine’s configuration and environment.


Use a virtual machine command language when:
- You are communicating with the operating system you loaded into your 
virtual machine.




http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/hcse4b01.pdf

Mike

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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Mike Myers]

Edward:

I can say something about that, as I was a member of the team that 
developed the prototype and was scheduled to become the leader of one of 
the two development teams charged with the planned "CMS on MVS" product. 
While we were getting staffed up, IBM canceled the project. The planned 
team leader for the other development team, who was also a member of the 
prototype team, was the late Karl Finkemeyer, who had created a PR/SM 
prototype he called "The Thin Layer" while working at the Heidelberg 
Scientific Center.


We had successfully IPLed and run CMS in a TSO address space using SIE. 
The CMS nucleus was unmodified. Our prototype was proof of the 
feasibility of the product. There was no VM in our prototype, though we 
had to implement some underlying functionality. My part in the prototype 
was the implementation of the CMS file system, which I did using Control 
Interval access in a VSAM data set. I believe that the idea was later 
used as a basis for PDS/E and HFS, although by the time both of these 
came along, I had left IBM and gone into consulting


Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation

 On 02/10/2017 08:53 PM, Edward Finnell wrote:

Back in the days. There was CMS for MVS in the early 80's. One of the
developers was a regular at SHARE and I guess resigned due to the decision to
shelve it for 'Marketing Considerations'. Went on the shelf right next to the
  Clist Compiler-CLIC.
  
  
In a message dated 2/10/2017 6:58:25 P.M. Central Standard Time,

charl...@mcn.org writes:

Would  not the proper phrase be "run independently of CP"? CMS is a
component
of  z/VM; it can't be independent of z/VM, it *is*  z/VM.


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FW: FRR Clarification One More Thing I forgot

[Joe Reichman]

 

 

From: Joe Reichman [mailto:reichman...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 7:16 PM
To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' 
Subject: FRR Clarification 

 

Hi,

 

When trying to cover my code I always choose an FRR If I am in Supervisor
State

 

*   Always get an SDWA

 

*   Would get control before an ESTAE

 

*   Also a ESATE only covers an RB while a FRR cover a TCB

 

 

 

So If I'm In  SRB mode I have no choice in task mode I can code EUT=YES.
However now looking over the Doc "Once a program activates an EUT FRR it
cannot issue an SVC's"  

 

So while SETFRR is providing coverage the program cant issue any SVC's?  

 

  

 


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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Mike Beer]

Don't know about the rockhopper, but we cabled up an emperor a few months ago.  
  Looks just the same as the z13s sitting beside it.
To my knowledge they are the same. It was a great marketing idea to 
rebrand it.

(Why they chose the name of company with bad reputation remains unclear:
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000106.htm )

Unfortunately LinuxOne is as difficult to configure and to sell for a 
business partner as traditional mainframes.
Last year IBM also required the same skill set from a business partner 
(e.g. z/OS certfication) for a machine that is "only linux".


Mike

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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Mike Beer]

Just found a marketing background story on LinuxONE

http://www.centerline.net/client-stories/building-a-custom-product-and-brand-to-connect-with-a-new-audience/

Mike

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AW: Re: Where's my dump?

[Peter Hunkeler]

>//CEEOPTS DD *
>TRAP(OFF,NOSPIE),TRMTHDCT(UADUMP,,96)
>//*


With TRAP(OFF,NOSPIE), you disable all Language Environment error trapping. 
z/OS will write a dump, but LE will not write any informtion such as LE 
messages, trace, of CEEDUMP.


If you would like to have a system as well as the LE dump (CEEDUMP), the leave 
(or set) TRAP(ON,SPIE), and specify TERMTHDACT(xxx,,9o6) with xxx as either 
UADUMP or UAIMM. The former option will give you all the LE debug information 
(messages, trace, CEEDUMP, ..) plus a U4039 system dump. Use the latter if you 
need the dump to have information as near to the error as possible.


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Re: OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

[John P. Baker]

Nathan,

The find/chgrp/chown worked great.

Thanks for pointing it out to me.

John P. Baker

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Behalf Of Pfister, Nathan
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:20 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

You don't need sed to do so, that may just complicate it

I would suggest find/exec.  Example below will find in current directory (.)
all files belonging to user 5001 (UID unless you have a user named "5001")
and change the owner to 0 (root).

find . -user 5001 -exec chown 0 {} \;

Second example, finds files in current directory (.) that belong to group
5001 (GID unless you have a group named "5001") and change the group to
SOMEGROUP

find . -group 5001 -exec chgrp SOMEGROUP {} \;

Notice that chgrp, chown, and the user/group parameters of find will accept
either a user/group name or a UID/GID

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Behalf Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 4:11 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

On 2/9/2017 1:04 PM, John P. Baker wrote:
> Is there an OMVS command or utility, either from IBM or from a 3rd 
> party, to search thru the OMVS filesystem, locate all directories 
> and/or files having a specific GID and/or UID, and to then reassign 
> those directories and/or files to a new GID and/or UID?

You can probably do this in one command by using the output of 'find' as
input to 'sed' or similar.

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R_cacheserv

[John P. Baker]

All,

 

I am currently looking into the benefits, if any, of the R_cacheserv service
in an environment running CA Top Secret Security.

 

What products are able to make use of it and is cache hardening worthwhile?

 

John P. Baker


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Re: Job Loyalty

[Tony Harminc]

On 11 February 2017 at 07:35, Salah Balboul  wrote:

> This is "Capitalism", making money is king. Every large corporation tries
> to sell this "Job Loyalty" to workers, however, rest assured this is a one
> sided affair. They want you to be loyal.


>From way back on January 13, 1997 in The New Yorker:
http://imagecache5d.allposters.com/watermarker/60-6005-PDFB100Z.jpg

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Re: IBM-MAIN subscription

[Jesse 1 Robinson]

No closer to a resolution. I have verified with our email staff that the 
IBM-MAIN confirmation email arrives here with no sender specified. This makes 
the note indistinguishable from scatter spam and causes immediate quarantine, 
so I never see it. 

By contrast, I just (re)subscribed to the TSO-REXX list at Marist. Notes came 
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One conspicuous difference is that the UA List Server software says 16.0, while 
the Marist notes indicate 14.4. According to Gil, only the licensee can open an 
issue with L-Soft.  

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On 2017-02-02, at 12:13, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:

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the report).

And L-Soft requires a customer ID to submit an SR.

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Re: Job Loyalty

[PINION, RICHARD W.]

You pegged it!

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Of Salah Balboul
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Subject: Re: Job Loyalty

This is "Capitalism", making money is king. Every large corporation tries to 
sell this "Job Loyalty" to workers, however, rest assured this is a one sided 
affair. They want you to be loyal.

Then again, think about it. When you start your employment at any company, the 
first thing you agree to is "At will employment", your employment with any 
company is a voluntary one subject to termination by you or company at WILL, 
with or without cause and with or without noticeetc.

Based on that doctrine, "Loyalty" has already left the building.

My relation with all the employers I worked with is simple. It is a business, I 
perform what is expected from me, they pay me. There is no love, hate, loyalty 
involved.

I'd rather be loyal to family, friends.

Happy Friday all,

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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Mike Beer]

The IBM Q4 results do not mention LinuxONE at all.
If it would be reported as z revenue, it should be there, but:
Systems gross margin was up year to year due to
-*both improvement in z margins, and**
**-**the relative strength in that higher margin business.**
*That does not look like LinuxONE.
Interestingly you do not find * * * ANY * * * customer reference on an 
IBM page.


So it is either bad marketing or no customers...


https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q16-Earnings-Prepared-Remarks.pdf

Systems Segment
Our Systems revenue reflects growth in z Systems, offset by declines in 
Power and storage as we continue to address shifting markets. Systems 
gross margin was up year to year due to both improvement in z margins, 
and the relative strength in that higher margin business. In z Systems, 
we delivered 4 percent revenue growth, double-digit growth in MIPs, and 
we expanded our margins. These results reflect our continued success in 
driving innovation in our core systems. The mainframe is optimized for 
mobile and security, and is constantly being redesigned to drive new 
workloads, including instant payments and the emerging blockchain. Eight 
quarters into the cycle, we added 8 new clients in the quarter, 29 for 
the year and 80 since inception. New client adoption at this stage in 
our cycle further validates our clients’ perceived value and their 
ongoing commitment to the IBM platform. Clients are investing heavily to 
meet the demands for future growth. I mentioned earlier the strength we 
had in China. We closed significant z Systems deals in the quarter, 
including two large Chinese banks migrating their mainframe install base 
to our latest z13 technology. And in Europe we are helping our clients 
manage new requirements in the rapidly evolving area of financial 
services modernization. We had four wins in the quarter on instant 
payments. Given the critical nature of the European financial services 
backbone, TARGET2-Securities, or T2S, has been deployed on IBM z Systems 
to provide the necessary reliability, scalability and IT security. 
Overall, the mainframe continues to deliver a high value, secure and 
scalable platform that is critical in managing our clients’ complex 
environments.



system z - success stories do not mention LinuxONE:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/success/

***
* BUT *
***

I found * * * ONE * * * customer reference in JAPAN:
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/67491/japans-aplus-selects-ibm-linuxone-for-credit-card-processing

and another one from China:
https://mainframedebate.com/2016/04/14/linuxone-china-and-trains-a-winning-combination/

IBM should display them on their website... if they want to sell real 
systems (instead of unclear visions)


And SUSE has some references (e.g. Air India):

   https://www.suse.com/success/
   (maybe Mark Post can comment on them)


Red Hat does not seem to have LinuxONE references.
The same seems to be true for Canonical/Ubuntu.


Mike


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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Charles Mills]

Interesting. Thanks.

I am still curious how well it is selling, how well it has been accepted by the 
Linux server market. 

Charles

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Just found a marketing background story on LinuxONE

http://www.centerline.net/client-stories/building-a-custom-product-and-brand-to-connect-with-a-new-audience/

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Re: Job Loyalty

[Salah Balboul]

This is "Capitalism", making money is king. Every large corporation tries to 
sell this "Job Loyalty" to workers, however, rest assured this is a one sided 
affair. They want you to be loyal.

Then again, think about it. When you start your employment at any company, the 
first thing you agree to is "At will employment", your employment with any 
company is a voluntary one subject to termination by you or company at WILL, 
with or without cause and with or without noticeetc.

Based on that doctrine, "Loyalty" has already left the building.

My relation with all the employers I worked with is simple. It is a business, I 
perform what is expected from me, they pay me. There is no love, hate, loyalty 
involved.

I'd rather be loyal to family, friends.

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Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

[Charles Mills]

> Nothing will run without the PR/SM hypervisor.

Good point.

Charles

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On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:58:10 -0800, Charles Mills  wrote:

>[... CMS ...] It is more of a
>single-user terminal session than an OS. And yes, it no longer can be 
>IPLed on the hardware, so a purist might say that disqualifies it as an 
>operating system right there. What kind of operating system requires an 
>operating system in order to run?
> 
Nowadays (or is it next year's model?), on the z, practically every one.
Nothing will run without the PR/SM hypervisor.

In the twilight of Sun Microsystems, Sine Nomine ported OpenSolaris to z.  It 
required z/VM for various assists.

Decades ago, I ATTACHed a real printer to a CMS guest.  Didn't work.
CMS printer driver issues CP commands to what it assumes is a virtual printer.  
Grrr.  Don't know about Pipelines.

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