Re: Dr. John Ehrman
Correction: Tineke's email address is tineke.graafl...@comcast.net (period, not underscore)
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
John's wife Tineke said that I could forward this announcement to any interested parties: [Begin] Dear Family, Friends and Acquaintances, This is to inform you that John's Memorial/Celebration of Life service has been scheduled for Saturday, May 5 at 10:00 am, at the Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, 728 Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale [California]. Reception following with light snacks. It would be nice if you respond whether you will attend, so that I have some idea how many folks plan to be there (helps the reception hosts!). Gratefully, Tineke Graafland-Ehrman [End] For those responding, Tineke's email is as follows: tineke_graafl...@comcast.net. For those of you who are inclined to send flowers on an occasion such as this, Tineke adds that she would prefer that you do not. As an alternative, please consider a tribute to John through various organizations such as: ⦁ The Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (https://www.bcan.org/) ⦁ Schola Cantorum, a musical group in which John sang (https://scholacantorum.org/home) ⦁ The Computer History Museum, to which John was a regular donor (http://www.computerhistory.org/)
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
John's book is available here: http://idcp.marist.edu/enterprisesystemseducation/assemblerlanguageresources-1.html t 10:43 AM 2/27/2018, you wrote: I don't believe that John has any personal or business web site. As I recall, his Assembler text book has been placed on various web sites (including Marist college, but I don't have a link). His SHARE presentations are available on their web site: https://www.share.org
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
I don't believe that John has any personal or business web site. As I recall, his Assembler text book has been placed on various web sites (including Marist college, but I don't have a link). His SHARE presentations are available on their web site: https://www.share.org Last night, I received the following from John's wife: "A John Ehrman website was set up by Len Shustek, who John and I have known since 1967 when Len was a Stanford Graduate Student, assigned to SLAC. Len is the founder and Executive Director of the Computer History Museum." See https://www.forevermissed.com/john-ehrman
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A short poem for John. It was written by Barbara L. Smyth, a friend. And the sun set. It's not so much I fear the coming of the night, It's more I mourn the end of a beautiful day. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563 Pearl River, NY 10965 www.syncsort.com Data quality leader Trillium Software is now a part of Syncsort.
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I am all for this. But I am not the one who can do it. For posterity's sake: I really enjoyed my exposure to Dr. John. What many may not know is, John was one of the developers of WYLBUR. And by stroke of luck (?) I was the last of the OBS/ACS WYLBUR developers. We made heavy use of HLASM and its conditional assembly in those days. I had a problem with some interface code for WYLBUR with JES2. And the JES2 support and development were claiming that they owned SYSPARM. This got escalated to HLASM. After both of us presented our sides of our respective arguments, Dr. John said, "I happen to own SYSPARM as part of HLASM. Mr. Thompson is correct that JES2 must parse the SYSPARM string for their information. So, I believe that JES2 has an opportunity for an APAR." That was my first time to ever talk with him. - I am just not as good with words as others. I shall miss him. -- Steve Thompson On 02/21/2018 04:32 PM, Richard Kuebbing wrote: Might I suggest the life of John Ehrman rises to a level that calls for a page on Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia wants to be only a secondary source, these messages could be considered the primary source. I would build the page but I am not a writer of anything but code. richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Don Higgins Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 3:47 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Dr. John Ehrman All I was so sorry to hear about the passing of John Ehrman. Back on 11/20/17 I received this private email from John, “Hi, Don…. I retired from IBM in June 2016; at the same time, we discovered two types of cancer, so with treating that plus a couple of back surgeries has slowed me down a bit. I hope all is well with you and yours, and that the recent hurricanes didn't do any lasting damage. Regards ... John” I replied but never heard back from him again. I consider John Ehrman a friend, a true gentleman, and a technical hero. He was leader of the IBM High Level Assembler Group and leader of the Assembler Group at SHARE. I met John at SHARE many times and he introduced me several times when I made presentations at SHARE about the z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net - The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. The information may also constitute a legally privileged confidential communication. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you
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Might I suggest the life of John Ehrman rises to a level that calls for a page on Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia wants to be only a secondary source, these messages could be considered the primary source. I would build the page but I am not a writer of anything but code. richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Don Higgins Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 3:47 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Dr. John Ehrman All I was so sorry to hear about the passing of John Ehrman. Back on 11/20/17 I received this private email from John, “Hi, Don…. I retired from IBM in June 2016; at the same time, we discovered two types of cancer, so with treating that plus a couple of back surgeries has slowed me down a bit. I hope all is well with you and yours, and that the recent hurricanes didn't do any lasting damage. Regards ... John” I replied but never heard back from him again. I consider John Ehrman a friend, a true gentleman, and a technical hero. He was leader of the IBM High Level Assembler Group and leader of the Assembler Group at SHARE. I met John at SHARE many times and he introduced me several times when I made presentations at SHARE about the z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net - The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. The information may also constitute a legally privileged confidential communication. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
All I was so sorry to hear about the passing of John Ehrman. Back on 11/20/17 I received this private email from John, “Hi, Don…. I retired from IBM in June 2016; at the same time, we discovered two types of cancer, so with treating that plus a couple of back surgeries has slowed me down a bit. I hope all is well with you and yours, and that the recent hurricanes didn't do any lasting damage. Regards ... John” I replied but never heard back from him again. I consider John Ehrman a friend, a true gentleman, and a technical hero. He was leader of the IBM High Level Assembler Group and leader of the Assembler Group at SHARE. I met John at SHARE many times and he introduced me several times when I made presentations at SHARE about the z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
Back in 1990, I was pushing Assembler H to its limits and was invited to submit requirements for what became HLASM, being planned by John Ehrman. I was immediately impressed with his approach, which combined a strong vision of future possibilities with a very practical understanding of the real life requirements of compatibility, reliability and stability. I still have a copy of the HLASM requirements and suggestions document that John created and maintained over many years, including quite a number of my own suggestions. Many of them were addressed long ago now, but we still have a huge collection of good ideas to follow up if we can find the resources! John was also involved in other areas such as working with the binder team on the GOFF (Generalised Object File Format) specification, which made possible a lot of new function to support Program Objects. (I later heard from John that I had apparently influenced some of this work myself when I visited the Santa Teresa lab in about 1988 and discussed possible orthogonal extensions to linkage editor function with Dick Lee of the binder team). I also worked with John more recently (via email and online chat) from 2014 until he retired in 2016, when we were both helping out with support of various old products such as VS Fortran (another of John's areas of expertise). I always appreciated his kind and wise help, and was happy to take on some additional support work to give him more time to work on his Assembler book. (I think that John had also hoped to create a similarly authoritative volume on writing macros once he had finished the first book, but although that never materialised, at least we have his excellent SHARE presentations on the subject). I'm sad that I never actually got to meet him in person (apart from perhaps a brief encounter at a SEAS conference in Edinburgh in 1987, of which neither of us had any clear memory), especially as both of us had outside interests in theoretical physics and classical music. John and Tineke had hoped to visit the UK for a vacation shortly after he retired, but his increasing need for medical treatment unfortunately ruled that out at the time. Many others will have encountered him at SHARE conferences or education sessions, where he clarified the mysteries of HLASM and the binder (among other topics) and helped many on their way to become better assembler programmers. As current HLASM team leader I am reminded every day of John's influence on the product, although he did set the development team some tricky challenges which we are still trying to get right to this day, such as removing some awkward restrictions on built-in functions and avoiding ambiguities between SETA and SETB expressions, which we were still discussing by email less than a couple of months ago! He made a big difference. I will miss him. Jonathan Scott HLASM team, IBM Hursley, UK
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I did not know John personally, only through his many posts to this site and his wider contributions to HLASM. It's fair to say his was a meaningful life, and that he made a difference to many people and to many enterprises. He was unfailingly respectful of others, a valuable counterweight in the age we live in. I'll breathe down a wee dram in his memory tonight. Condolences to his family. Vale John E. On 21/02/2018 5:01 AM, Dan Greiner wrote: Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. John Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. His wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and pain free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial service at our church in Palo Alto." I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing.
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We will miss him. Does anybody know if he had a web site? I would like to download anything he shared before the site goes down. (I already have his book.) Tony Thigpen Gary Weinhold wrote on 02/20/2018 08:03 PM: Although I didn't know John until he was with IBM, I was grateful for all the work he did to make sure all aspects of HLASM and the linkage editor were accessible to anyone who attended his SHARE sessions. I have a quite complete collection of all his bound "lecture notes (tomes)" that accompanied his presentations. Give his family my thanks for sharing him with us these many years. I still have subroutines from his SLAC days for converting floating point to external decimal from long before there were any hardware instructions to make the task easier. Gary Weinhold Gary Weinhold Senior Application Architect DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization Phone +1.613.523.5500 x216 Email: weinh...@dkl.com Visit us online at www.DKL.com E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Dan Greiner [dan_grei...@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 1:01 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Dr. John Ehrman Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. John Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. His wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and pain free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial service at our church in Palo Alto." I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing.
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
Although I didn't know John until he was with IBM, I was grateful for all the work he did to make sure all aspects of HLASM and the linkage editor were accessible to anyone who attended his SHARE sessions. I have a quite complete collection of all his bound "lecture notes (tomes)" that accompanied his presentations. Give his family my thanks for sharing him with us these many years. I still have subroutines from his SLAC days for converting floating point to external decimal from long before there were any hardware instructions to make the task easier. Gary Weinhold Gary Weinhold Senior Application Architect DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization Phone +1.613.523.5500 x216 Email: weinh...@dkl.com Visit us online at www.DKL.com E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Dan Greiner [dan_grei...@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 1:01 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Dr. John Ehrman Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. John Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. His wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and pain free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial service at our church in Palo Alto." I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing.
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Last time I saw John was with you, Dan, in the SVL canteen - over lunch. Martin Packer zChampion, Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://developer.ibm.com/tv/mpt/or https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mainframe-performance-topics/id1127943573?mt=2 Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_65HaYgksbF6Q8SQ4oOvA From: Dan Greiner To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Date: 20/02/2018 18:01 Subject:Dr. John Ehrman Sent by:IBM Mainframe Assembler List Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. John Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. His wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and pain free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial service at our church in Palo Alto." I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing. Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
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I am very sad to hear that news. Dr. Ehrman was a great help to all of us here and a true gentleman. May he reset in peace. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Greiner Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 1:01 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Dr. John Ehrman Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. John Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. His wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and pain free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial service at our church in Palo Alto." I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
Sad to hear ... He shared me lot of assembler presentation... Rest in Peace.. On 20-Feb-2018 11:34 PM, "John McKown" wrote: > I didn't even know he was ill. I am deeply saddened that he won't be > posting here any more (no computers in heaven -- it's part of what makes it > heaven). > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Dan Greiner wrote: > > > Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. > John > > Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level > > Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). > > > > I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning > > (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. > His > > wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and > pain > > free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial > > service at our church in Palo Alto." > > > > I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing. > > > > > > -- > I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove > it. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown >
Re: Dr. John Ehrman
I didn't even know he was ill. I am deeply saddened that he won't be posting here any more (no computers in heaven -- it's part of what makes it heaven). On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Dan Greiner wrote: > Those of you who have followed this list for years know well that Dr. John > Ehrman was the motivating force behind the development of the High-Level > Assembler (I often referred to him as the God Father of HLASM). > > I am deeply saddened to report that John passed away this morning > (Tuesday, 20 February 2018) following a protracted battle with cancer. His > wife, Tineke, reports: "He died in his sleep, and is now at peace and pain > free. John will be cremated; in the near future there will be a memorial > service at our church in Palo Alto." > > I will convey any further information on the memorial to this listing. > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown
