Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

2009-11-20 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:56:47 -0500 Tony Harminc said: 2009/11/17 Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com: I also read in z/Journal that the lines between a mainframe computer (the z10 to be specific) and a super computer are being blurred. ¦When I was at GuideSHARE Europe two years ago (in

Re: One less mainframe shop

2009-04-07 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:38:12 -0500 Eric Chevalier said: On 6 Apr 2009 22:43:03 -0700, Timothy Sipples wrote: No, it's not at all misleading (CA's prediction that 2009 shipped incremental mainframe MIPS will exceed all installed mainframe MIPS in 2000)... Thus MIPS, at least in this context, is an

Re: DD DEST=(MS Windows machine)

2009-02-06 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:50:57 -0800 Don Russell said: I'm toying with different ideas of how to send data to an MS Windows server from MVS (1.9) Right now I have step one produce a sequential, plain text file on DASD, and step 2 uses FTP to send it to the PC, translating ebcdic to ascii along the

Re: another one biting the dust?

2008-12-21 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:06:59 + Eric Bielefeld said: Ed, Thanks. I always get them mixed up. I guess the best way to remember them is that they are more powerful by alphabetic order. i p z . That works until you through the x into the mix. (Intel). And in this day, the i and the p are

Re: Fw: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-27 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:15:55 -0600 Kirk Wolf said: Angelo, I'm not familiar with Sakai, but from looking at the website it is a Java web application which currently supports: - Apache Tomcat web container - (porting to Websphere should be trivial) It's not. Among others, Tomcat is much more

Re: Linux zSeries questions

2008-02-17 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:27:56 -0600 Ed Gould said: But to your answer thats fine but IBM is not doing real education (ie assembler) or any other low level language in colleges (to the best of my knowledge). How else do you think these future people will support LINUX? PLX? hahaha IBM does *NOT*

Re: 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting

2007-12-20 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:34:38 -0700 Anton Britz said: Hi, a) To avoid others Cut and Pasting too : *http://tinyurl.com/2jcwby* If you use FireFox, there is also an extension that allows you to right click on the page, and it automatically creates a TinyURL for that page, and copies it to your

Re: Mainframe Funeral

2007-12-11 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:38:14 -0500 Veilleux, Jon L said: Mike Baldwin wrote (Quoting University of Manitoba): On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved mainframe by holding a New Orleans Style Jazz Funeral, complete with a piôata Spark's microphones were at the

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:39:39 -0800 Ray Mullins said: Frankly, I'd like to see IBM do this type of donation/assistance program at the 2-year community college level. Not to knock 4-year schools, but the type of student in a 2-year school is interested in getting a skill quickly, and employers like

Re: Slightly OT But Linux

2007-08-08 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:07:53 +1000 Shane said: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 03:10 -0500, Harry Williams wrote: Sounds to be that this might be doable in IBM's version of Linux... IBM doesn't have a version of Linux Oh dear, oh dear - tossing bait around Harry ???. Not intentionally, just playing

Re: Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?

2007-08-03 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:51:43 -0700 said: Amdahl had its own Unix called UTS. I think it was well regarded, but never really took off. Did another company take it over when Amdahl was acquired? UTS is currently owned by UTSGlobal http://www.utsglobal.com/Unix.html from their website: UTS

Re: Web access to mainframe datasets

2007-08-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:22:46 -0500 Brian Westerman said: Hi all, I have decided that it would be kind of a cool idea to be able to access some of our software (especially the Spool Offload facility) from a secure internet connection, but I don't want to use CICS services or DB/2 because I can't

Re: OT Funny IT Movie

2007-07-02 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:11:44 +0200 Abe Kornelis said: Ed, terrific! Thanks for the pointer. I tried to find a reference to the author, but I found nothing. Which mainly proves how ill-suited I am for working with PCs ;-) Do you happen to know who created this beauty?

Re: Windows application key from a vendor

2007-06-30 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:33:03 -0700 Edward Jaffe said: Ed Gould wrote: On Jun 28, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Yes but most of the time the key is either in printed form *OR* some place (PDF) where you can't copy Paste. FWIW, you can almost always copy/paste from

Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics

2006-07-28 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:51:48 -0400 Veilleux, Jon L said: I believe that IBM is looking for other companies to work with their Academic Initiatives program. They need companies willing to accept interns and possibly offer full time jobs to the students involved in the colleges that are offering

Re: Message to: Mohammad Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-04-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:55:03 +0100 Terry Sambrooks said: Hi Mohammed, You recent contributes to the Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion to the effect that ..The poster child of IBM education initiative, Marist College, does not even reply to emails, the phone number listed on the web page either does

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-11 Thread A. Harry Williams
Let's see if I can get this past Darren's filters this time. From: A. Harry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Marist College Subject: Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion X-LSVline1: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:42:40 -0500 Mohammad Khan said: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:42:40 -0500 Mohammad Khan said

Re: USS Virus Scanner

2006-01-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:22:06 -0500 PERRY MAYES said: We are in the process of setting up a SendMail SMTP server under z/OS 1.6 USS. Are there any virus scanning solutions that will run in the USS environment? It hasn't been ported to z/OS that I'm aware, but you could try porting ClamAV.

Re: Legality of Hercules was (fwd) Hercules 3.03 announcement

2005-12-30 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:07:43 -0700 Timothy Sipples said: I would challenge IBM to put on the Internet and publiclly make available a bunch of MVS (virtual machines under VM) Thus effectively allow MVS at home for everyone desiring to develop MVS open-source. This will spread also MVS skills

Re: Platform Advocacy

2005-11-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:03:01 -0600 Paul Gilmartin said: On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:38:50 -0800, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And z/OS isn't the only IBM mainframe operating system, and IBM isn't the only mainframe player either (although it probably is in the high 90s percentile of installed

Re: Article in Information week: Mainframe Programmers Wanted

2005-09-25 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:36:41 -0500 Huckert, James said: I have to agree with bill on some points but there are exceptions. I am 28 and I have been a mainframe operator for about 5 years now and I am looking to get into system programming. I was raised with a strong work ethic and I do all I can

Re: Press Release: IBM Academic Initiative Boosts Mainframe Community, Helps Plug Projected Skills Gap

2005-07-15 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:40:15 +0200 Marian Gasparovic said: There are possibilities for universities included in program to connect to mainframes remotely. I saw some materials and for some non-profit fee they can have second level zVM and both z/OS and Linux as guests. On 7/15/05, R.S. [EMAIL