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Major mainframe changes often begin with small proof-of-concept (POC)
projects. Sometimes they're even off-radar skunkworks efforts, hidden
until results are irrefutable and leading to game-changing successes.
Linux on System z is frequently introduced with this toe-in-water
approach, then scaled
Research reports and anecdotal evidence repeatedly show that major
vulnerabilities -- perhaps the largest risks -- come from insider
threats. That is, trusted people betraying their positions and trust.
But what's the answer? Watchers watching watchers watching each other?
Decades ago, as a
Interesting article, especially for those of us around 30(!) years ago
for OCO battles.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secret-computer-code-threatens-science
Some comments are scary -- like first one, 35 years geological research
and not understanding this simple article.
How to Negotiate Tech Pay
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I'm writing for Destination z -- http://destinationz.org/ -- about BYOD
(bring your own devices). People describing how they telework
mentioned using tablets and smartphones for monitoring work systems,
resolving problems, doing routine chores, communicating with colleagues,
researching
Long ago, a friend had an IBM PS/2. The monitor failed.
Being a mainframer, she called hardware support -- the same number she'd call
for a broken mainframe. IBM promptly dispatched a CE to her house; he replaced
the monitor, cleaned up any mess, and departed in his unmarked white van.
More
I'm writing article for Destination z http://destinationz.org/ on
telework/telecommuting. I think this partitions in two dimensions --
technology vs. mindset and worker vs. employer.
There's abundant information -- and blather -- about this subject. But
Destination z is mainframe focused so I'm
Thanks for tips for this, security resolutions:
http://destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Security/12-New-Years-Resolutions-to-Keep-Your-Mainframe.aspx
...and for great/abundant backup tips; that article to post soon.
Next article will be on education/training -- mostly general tips, do's
I'm seeking suggestions for an article giving mainframe backup-related
New Years resolutions (where's it written that such articles must appear
in January?).
I'm mostly interested in general tips but will also include some
OS-specific items; tips can be do's or don'ts.
Remembered gotchas
Antitrust settlement over Big Blue's big iron nears
IBM agrees to supply commitments to other firms
Big Blue has almost settled its differences with the European Commission
over the supply of mainframe spare parts to third-party maintainers.
The EC launched an antitrust probe into IBM on its
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-07-24/
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I'm no more a lawyer than anyone else on this list. But IBM has
elaborate programs for vendors, including various contacts for
questions/opportunities/problems.
Contract/legal questions would be answered by lawyers who'd be unlikely
designers of competing features. And IBM -- especially its
Quite a deep hole SSA's dug itself into.
Interesting According to a project plan released in August, the
facility will reach its maximum electrical distribution capacity within
four years, given increased mainframe efficiency and higher storage
densities.
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Social Security Confronts IT
Three Films Chronicle IBM's Century of Innovation
ARMONK, N.Y. - 10 Mar 2011: IBM is marking its 100th year as a company
of innovators and inventions through a series of documentary films that
chronicle the ways in which the company has changed the world through
scientific and technology
...and maybe a zBX? If so, and you can share your early
experience/success with them, there's likely opportunity to be profiled
in mainframe magazines and for IBM, bragging to the world about your
brilliance. It's not much work and past profile subjects have liked the
results. Vendors, feel
The problem wasn't checking license validity, it was renewing
licenses. They've extended by 20 days validity of licenses which expired
Aug 25-Sept 2 or so, are keeping DMV offices open extra hours and days,
and have notified police regarding the extension. And some measure I
didn't quite
I'm just the messenger... but I'll add that street parking is easy, you needn't pay a
garage. And I'd rate the usual refreshments better than light.
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http://www.dcacm.org/default.aspx
The Washington DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, with
support from the New America
Mike Cowlishaw, developer of the REXX language, author of several books,
and IBM Fellow for quite some time, will take early retirement from IBM
March 5. It's hard to exaggerate -- or even grasp, really -- how much
REXX changed IBM computing and how those lucky enough to know REXX get
their
I joined IBM after college, summer of '68, spent six months in various classes
before joining the OS/360 System Design Department as a junior programmer. Bill
Collier was one of the instructors, an amazing/brilliant motivated and
motivating teacher. Coincidentally, I very recently saw a
Speaking of ISAM doing interesting channel programming -- ISAM was implicated
in a very early VM security/integrity threat. Details elude me and I sadly
don't have the program which used ISAM to penetrate VM, but it was discussed in
this research
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IBM's System z Solution Series consists of several integrated hardware,
software and services packages that help deploy new enterprise workloads
such as data warehousing, electronic payments, and disaster recovery.
The most recently announced was IBM System z Solution Edition for
Enterprise
Historic Marist College Embraces Mainframe's Future
by Gabe Goldberg
Just over a century ago, the Marist Brothers arrived in New York's
Hudson River Valley to train young men to continue the brothers'
vocation as great educators. What started as a seminary for training has
become a leading
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IBM's System z Solution Series consists of seven integrated hardware,
software and
Here's a slant on this...
The bureaucrats at the Justice Dept., the European Commission, and a
trade group called CCIA are looking to take from IBM what their supposed
victim could not earn in the free market.
As promised, here's the first of the two mainframe staffing/education
articles for which I solicited comments on these lists, for which many
people were VERY helpful. I appreciate everything that people sent; note
that the article length allowed including only a small fraction of comments.
Seeking mainframe sites to make famous in white papers
I'm writing customer case study white papers for IBM, similar to but
more elaborate than what I've done for z/Journal and Mainframe Executive
magazines (see the article link I just posted) and for the IBM magazine
I wrote/edited a while
Here's a z/Journal article I wrote about educational resources for new/younger
mainframers: http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=articleaid=823
I wrote two more recent articles, one for z/Journal and one for Mainframe
Executive but don't think they're yet online.
Basically, IBM and a LOT
Steve Comstock wrote:
So, I'm _older_ than a baby boomer (based on your definition below;
I was born in 1944). But I'll keep working because I enjoy the work
_and_ because I need to.
Thanks for quick reply -- you're first in line!
I was quoting a generational definition, not setting one. As
(Sorry for cross-posting...)
I'm writing an article for CA about baby-boom mainframers (that's me
too, my first job out of college in 1968 was with IBM in Poughkeepsie)
about what we're all doing and seeing and facing in our careers.
Do people plan to work as long as they're able? Because of
Anton Britz asked some questions --
Do you read the two current independent mainframe magazines z/Journal
and Mainframe Executive? I've written dozens of articles for for them
and their predecessors (4300 Quarterly, Mainframe Journal, Enterprise
Systems Journal, etc.) for 20+ years. I
I'm writing articles for Bob Thomas' two publications, z/Journal and
Mainframe Executive, about mainframe education. For z/Journal I'll cover
the tactical state of education union and for Mainframe Executive I'll
discuss strategic/high-level issues.
A year or so ago I wrote about
Long ago I was brought in to help the consulting company where I worked
audit a government agency's VM system. The agency was running multiple
levels of classified work under VM, claiming it was secure. The folks
doing the security audit wanted to talk about all sorts of technical
penetrations
In May, I said:
I'm doing an article for Bob Thomas' z/Journal
http://www.zjournal.com/ about next-generation mainframers, industry
and educational outreach initiatives for students and young
professionals, opportunities and obstacles for people exploring this
career area, etc.
The vanishing American computer programmer
Move to increase number of foreign worker visas fails in Senate, but
that has not stopped what critics call a push for cheaper labor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0702/p15s01-wmgn.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2enylt
And the amazing video:
At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/business/05outsource.html?themc=th
http://tinyurl.com/26xg4e
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I'm doing an article for Bob Thomas' z/Journal
http://www.zjournal.com/ about next-generation mainframers, industry
and educational outreach initiatives for students and young
professionals, opportunities and obstacles for people exploring this
career area, etc. www.ibm.com/university/systemz
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As SHARE attendance increased, the number of cities where it would fit
dwindled. I believe there was indeed a Task Force on Growth (TFOG) which
considered constraining attendance. Based on the attendance trend (from 6000
down to 1000 or so) since TFOG was chartered, this was clearly one of
Someone long ago responded to an SPE with:
This is small?
This is programming??
This is an enhancement???
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People Power Platforms
The mainframe computer is the place where today's neat things are
happening. If that statement had fallen through a time warp to show up
on someone's breakfast plate back in 1991, we might not have had to
listen to
I'm not disagreeing, just emphasizing your point: Other-platform folk happily proceed with projects whose problems they can't anticipate and (maybe) solve the problems later. Mainframers are better at seeing problems with proposed projects. And it's the mainframers who need their attitudes
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