Re: IBM System/3 3277-1

2007-10-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc,alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: field/col definition for 12-2-9 TXT card: col 1 12-2-9 / x'02' 2-4

Re: IBM System/3 3277-1

2007-10-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc,alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I don't understand is pre sorting a deck that will be used as input to the computer--couldn't the computer

Re: IBM System/3 3277-1

2007-10-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc,alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could read ASCII from a paper tape. Took me a while. :-) previous post in this thread:

Re: Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules

2007-10-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to remember this as TCP/IP version 3.2 with 3.3 having the fixes for optimization. Weren't there twin stacks being managed or

Re: IBM System/3 3277-1

2007-10-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc,alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (For the AS/400 I never could figure the internal code architecture, IBM used something called LIC that was

Re: Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules

2007-10-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) writes: It's not just z/OS UNIX. The first implementation of TCP/IP on OS/390 was a port from VM. And, it was a pig until they

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The first operational 370 hardware supporting virtual memory was a 370/145 engineering processor. However, cp67h

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3) writes: Fixed storage is not only to support diabled users but much more often used in the ubiquituos I/O processing.

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Bill Ogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The statements about the 360/67 are correct. It was a little ahead of its time in several ways. The 67's DAT design was a

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3) writes: OS/360 was a real storage only operating system. DAT was introduced with S/370. OS/390 could run on that

Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up

2007-10-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has always intrigued me. What was done to eliminate the possibility that the channel had to access a virtual page that had been

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-10-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Choice Overload In Parallel Programming http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/07/10/03/0021253.shtml from above: And then we show them the parallel

Re: Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code

2007-10-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John P Baker) writes: Back in the 80s, we operated under the premise that a seasoned programmer should be able to produce 20 lines of bug-free

Re: India is outsourcing jobs as well

2007-09-30 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#39 Inda is outsourcing jobs as well Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/09/29/2027210.shtml from above: I am a new graduate student in Computer Engineering. I would like to get my MS and possibly my

Re: Writing 23FDs

2007-09-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Raymond Noal wrote: Dear List: An IBM 4361 Model Group 5 had the ECPS feature - Extended Control Program Support (ECPS) -- offers VSE mode, VM/370 mode, and MVS/370 mode. These modes provide microcode assists that make the system control programs operate more efficiently. ECPS was

Re: Writing 23FDs

2007-09-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Matthew Stitt wrote: Because the FBA's and 8809's were boat anchors. And the 3350's and 3420 gave interchangeability with MVS. With things connected to normal channels the sky was the limit with what could be done with the 4331. Using the ICA severely limited your devices. The 3350 and 3420

Re: India is outsourcing jobs as well

2007-09-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Edward Jaffe wrote: I have family all over Virginia. Less developed is probably a good thing. It's a beautiful state. Lots of history. There's something very wrong with and/or not being stated in the premise here. They probably need people in the United States because things aren't working

Re: zH/OS (z/OS on Hercules for personal use only)

2007-09-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote: It's been done many times before, FREEWARE for STRICTLY PERSONAL USE. It is proven to sell more licences for commercial use. There is precedence, DB2, Lotus... personal computing ... freeware or not ... has always shown to contribute significantly to useage

Re: CA to IBM product swap

2007-09-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Zelden) writes: Then you switch back. ;-) There are actually a lot of companies that seem to work that way. That's what happens when bean counters make the decisions and don't consider the human aspects (time, training etc.) this is related to the original

Re: FICON tape drive?

2007-09-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
George McAliley wrote: All IBM 3490's on mainframes were either Block MPX channel (bus/tag) or ESCON. The STK 9490's on mainframe were also ESCON though they did have a SCSI interface for distributed system attachment. The IBM Magstar (3590) series were natively FICON and ESCON capable

Re: CA to IBM TCP Conversion

2007-09-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Chris Mason wrote: Robert I thought I'd dig further into this IUCV point and I found a reference in the IP Configuration Guide. It appears that IUCV, VMCF and TNF stuff is still available, you just don't necessarily need it. It would appear to have become an *optional* bit of preparation for

Re: ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations

2007-09-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I put the heavily hit loadlibs such as SYS1.LINKLIB on one side of the VTOC, and the ISPF libraries on the other side of the VTOC. With todays heavily cached dasd, that probably will buy you very little anymore. Very little. Especially, since it's been over 15 years since

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-09-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Mark Post wrote: If you give a Linux guest a 4GB virtual machine, it will have very close to a 4GB working set. If you give that same Linux guest 64GB, it will have very close to a 64GB working set. The fact that you say Linux will use what it needs tells me that you have little or no

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) writes: Also, sub-systems like DB2 are getting to the point where you should/could/would not like it to page. Sort of throws the concept out the window, doesn't it? previous post in thread http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#41 Virtual Storage implementation

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) writes: Oh, and if you create a 64GB z/VM guest, shame on you. As someone who is very heavy into z/VM performance once told me, z/VM is very good at managing large numbers of small things. It's not so good at managing a smaller number of very large things. I tend

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve) writes: VSE, as I recall, was told that it had 32MB (or something similar) and VM then took care of the paging (because VSE didn't page in that case) -- must understand the memory system used by VSE (similar to VS1). recent posts in this thread:

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) writes: That's still probably too much, if only by a little. The idea is to force Linux to use as little storage as possible for buffers and cache, and page out any programs, etc., that haven't been used very recently. Letting z/VM handle this via expanded

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-30 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rugen, Len) writes: Virtual storage isn't exclusive to MVS - z/OS. One on of the best presentations I recall was in a VM Performance and Tuning class. Together with storage protection keys, page tables can be built to allow different users to have various parts of private,

Re: Each CPU usage

2007-08-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve) writes: Imagine, you have a 3081 at 100% and you upgraded to a 3084 (basically you added the other 3081) and you are still at 100%. Or you have a 3033 and you went to a 470/V8. [I'm not saying these were the systems, just using them as examples.] 3081 was

Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
On Aug 15, 11:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (daver++) wrote: Around 1:30 p.m., the CPB experienced problems accessing its database containing information on international travelers. Assuming this to be a wide-area network problem, CBP called Sprint, its carrier, to test the lines. After three

Re: some questions about System z PR/SM.

2007-08-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) writes: No. PR/SM is microcode - a code under OS. Sometimes called firmware. z/OS runs in LPAR. Although it can obtaine i.e. LPAR name, it is still unaware from PR/SM and LPARs features. z/OS works in virtual machine (Logical PARtition) and does know that machine.

Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware

2007-07-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason) writes: One of the presentations was someone from a big UK bank who defended IBM having made the 155 and 165 available and

Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware

2007-06-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) writes: If the business needs are being satisfied, with reasonable economy, who cares whether the box is the lastest and

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Smith III) writes: Re VAX vs. IBM: I was a central, low level member of the 4300 series. I also led the engineering side of the fight

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Smith III) writes: Re RISC vs. 68K: Anyone who thinks the RISC chips killed the 68K is off base. They just need to check the dates.

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#18 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM the place that 43xx had the most

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugene Miya) writes: No, the most difficult competition was and is against the IBM PC. If it did so well, we'd see more evidence of it being

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Morten Reistad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, log structured file systems, the jfs and contributions to efs3, and huge improvements to the irq and dma routing;

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. another article on the same theme: Leopard and Vista: Last Gasp of the Big OS? http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/133276 from above: Twenty years from now a new

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason) writes: ... and thereby put the wait light out[1]. Having been brought up with DOS (the original DOS), and, generally, S/360 Model 30s, I was used to

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Smith III) writes: Which is the end of the story, boys and girls. For, while so many people focus on how the PC has damaged the

Re: Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All

2007-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Brick) writes: http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/20/usenix_07_opening_keynote/ the new, 40yr old theme, curtesy of the science center

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#64 Operating systems are old and busted http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#66 Off Topic But Concept should be Known

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#64 Operating systems are old and busted http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#66 Off Topic But Concept should be Known

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

2007-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is fascinating history, Lynn. I remember using the Prepare command in channel programs for the 2701 that we used in the TUCC

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lurndal) writes: Sure there are. Start with WindRiver. Then progress to MCP/AS, z/OS, Exec/1100 and so forth. The whole world isn't

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When? I never considered IBM world and its batch environment timesharing. Timesharing does not do large data processing tasks well;

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with the advent of PCs ... a lot of the cms personal computing migrated to PCs ... although the (mainframe) virtual

Re: Capacity and Relational Database

2007-06-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html##47 Capacity and Relational Database for some additional past history the university i was at was selected to be

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Peter Flass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, unix is unix (or Linux). The problems come from the basic design; if you changed the design, it wouldn't be unix.

Re: Capacity and Relational Database

2007-06-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. IBMsysProg wrote: From a software architecture standpoint, Multi Regions, Independent locking (IRLM), Automated Recovery (DBRC), and DASD Logging became the

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Frank McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yup ... As *would* have happened with the PC itself if they'd been that tight-assed with it. They just didn't *get* the

Re: Capacity and Relational Database

2007-06-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IBMsysProg) writes: Memory. Over the years the first exploiters of architecture changes to allow more address spaces, more real memory, and

Re: The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM

2007-06-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The public history of the PC began in August 1981, when IBM first announced 'The IBM Personal Computer.' . This was The original PC.

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) writes: Key-based solutions exist on mianframe as well as on other systems. I think it is rather technical, not ethical or

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes: It's a shame, but unless IBM does do a big rethink on this, and allows small developers some sort of inexpensive or free

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) writes: M - seems to be just a warming over of the multi-programming versus parallel discussion. With the exception of that last

Re: mainframe = superserver

2007-06-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I realize that this has probably been asked before, but google didn't give me an answer. Before I asked my question let me state that I know that windows

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. a couple recent items: The death of single threaded development http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=519 Google Acquires Multicore Programming Startup PeakStream --

Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computer as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick O'Keefe) writes: At times like this I sorely miss my long lost APPN Formats and Protocols bible. I believe official sources claim that

Re: Questions to the list

2007-06-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) writes: It seems to me that only a few years ago (and probably in many of the hundreds of recycled I remember when... threads lately) we were, as a

Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Smrcina) writes: If I understand what your asking there are products on the market that can do this today. As long as there is a 3270 on

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-06-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#24 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#26 Is Parallel Programming Just Too

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-05-30 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Brazee) writes: Depending on one's definition of parallel programming, we have been doing to various degrees since before they started

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-05-30 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: long ago and far away, this was one of the battles getting the compareswap instruction into 370 architecture. testset

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Dan Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, in the sense that C was pretty close to the assembler for the machine UNIX was first developed on. It would have been

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Much of this is due to the reliance on null-terminated strings, which are not peculiar to C, but are rooted in the

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craddock, Chris) writes: I never actually met a processor with the (mythical?) APL assist feature. However, I did write mountains of APL

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: Dont forget APL Shared Variables. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#67 Non-Standard Mainframe

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: The were also assists for OS/VS1 and MVS/SE, to say nothing of the infamous ECPS:VSE. re:

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. me too -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Postpischil) writes: Back in the seventies I was in charge of the systems group at a service bureau. One of our customers was from a

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) writes: I started with 3330's. And, I remember when STK (STC) showed us their first ICEBERG, and the size of the device was that

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't remember any 3350 problems as this device type was my first performance charge with doing internal pathing/volume placement

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IBM 3880 - 1 or 2 (IBM DASD and Control Units Facts Folder G520-3075-2) old email with reference to finding bug in the 3350 support in 3880 controller (and

Re: Another migration from the mainframe

2007-05-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richards.Bob) writes: I wonder if they will reveal the costs of extra hw/sw for high-availability and business continuance associated with this migration. Probably

Re: Another migration from the mainframe

2007-05-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Brazee) writes: I'd also like to see that with politics, but politician's pay is power, and that cannot be deferred.But it is more important for a

Re: Another migration from the mainframe

2007-05-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#18 Another migration from the mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#19 Another migration from the mainframe as an aside ... all the

Re: Another migration from the mainframe

2007-05-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#18 Another migration from the mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#19 Another migration from the mainframe

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-14 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is 'OCO' ? Thanks there were several OCO-wars threads/discussion on vmshare. it was somewhat more of an issue in vm culture ...

Re: Help settle a job title/role debate

2007-05-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Steve Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would regard SP as the inside job, designing, writing, testing, and integrating code to accomplish some well-defined

Re: Help settle a job title/role debate

2007-05-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Zelden) writes: Today, I see these two used interchangeably. I've even seen title changes from one to the other in the same shop when HR

Re: Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?

2007-05-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) writes: I went the other way in the Army, finding myself in a tropical climate where the main diet was rice, with a few

Re: Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?

2007-05-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) writes: John, I agree with you on this issue ... somewhat. I was in the Army (over in Germany) and our base was a 'stepping stone for generals. They

Re: How difficult would it be for a SYSPROG ?

2007-05-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Saul Babonas) writes: Please colleagues, allow my to clarify by stating : SET FAVORITEEXPLETIVE='' 1. I do not believe other platforms are

Re: Sizing CPU

2007-05-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) writes: I agree that part of what I wrote is misleading because I was thinking about processor resource contention analysis when

Re: Best practices for software delivery

2007-04-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Schwarz, Barry A) writes: Internet is only a reasonable approach when companies are willing to provide the same level of quality control over

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.comupters as well. Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A lot of our smarts is in seeing patterns, simplifying what we are looking for. Occasionally this kind of shortcut

Re: latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) writes: Which of course made the whole thing too complex. Maybe we need to make it simpler ... other posts in this thread:

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) writes: That increased instruction set allows for vastly increased capability, in spite of the perceived complexity. Simple

Re: Internal DASD Pathing

2007-04-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richards.Bob) writes: 3880-xx Controller series followed by the 3990-xxx series DASD was 3380-D, 3380-E, 3380-J, 3380-K, 3390-1, 3390-2,

Re: Internal DASD Pathing

2007-04-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A bit off topic: I find your input to these threads in general to be quite useful. They appear to take a fair amount

Re: Internal DASD Pathing

2007-04-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#33 Internal DASD Pathing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#34 Internal DASD Pathing minor addenda ... to previous

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That makes sense. But continuing that thought, I see Apple, which doesn't try to make its OS be all things for all

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folkore.computers as well. Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That makes sense. But continuing that thought, I see Apple, which doesn't try to make its OS be all things for all people

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.foklore.comupters as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes: In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. just for laughs here is the (Hercules) build install procedure for

Re: T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported

2007-04-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) writes: I once heard a former CIA spook say that any POS system can be hacked from a truck parked at the curb, if the price/value is right. (Speaking

Re: Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings.

2007-04-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. JimKeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remember with great fondness working with VS/Pascal when on contract to IBM working on VM and MVS implementation of TCPIP.

Re: Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings.

2007-04-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#41 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings.

Re: T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported

2007-04-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) writes: I once heard a former CIA spook say that any POS system can be hacked from a truck parked at the curb, if the price/value is right. (Speaking

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