On 15 May 2007 14:35:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>1) They'll deny it by creative accounting.
> This happened at one place that I worked when the PC revolution
>was "new". The individual departments were responsible for their own PC
>workstations and software. Therefore
On 15 May 2007 10:12:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Shannon)
wrote:
>> The idea of exchanging server heat for building heat is interesting
>>though.
>
>We did this at Aetna twenty five years ago. The heating system didn't
>come on until the outside temperature reached 32 F. Until then all the
>h
On 15 May 2007 11:06:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson,
Steve) wrote:
>[Side note: my wife retired from a certain Electric Utility. She has a
>full Masters (not just an MBA, but she has one of those too). She has
>commented to me many times about how the "fast trackers" in a company
>have abou
On 15 May 2007 09:05:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craddock,
Chris) wrote:
>On a slightly off-topic note, there is a large body of evidence that
>MOST of the IT budget (75-85%!!) is consumed in just keeping the lights
>on. There is almost nothing left over for either new development, or for
>exploi
On 15 May 2007 08:02:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Jacobs)
wrote:
>But the lack of these benefits on the cheaper environments usually bites
>you in the a** sometime in the future. But by then the people making
>these decisions have walked away with their bonuses and leave the
>fallout to th
On 11 May 2007 11:31:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john gilmore)
wrote:
>>I think the only way to know exactly for what CLIP was the acronym is to
>>ask the original author, whose identity I don't know.
>>
>
>and this is surely true; but the issue is sometimes more complicated. Not
>all acronym
On 10 May 2007 10:52:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) wrote:
>It still takes a place in Europe. Engineer is a title assigned by technical
>univeristy to a graduate.
>In Poland (and not only) only government-approved organizations can be named
>university
>(or polytechnic) and only those schoo
On 10 May 2007 09:19:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Black)
wrote:
>She proposed a certification exam, but she obviously had no concept of
>the breadth of specialties among programmers.\
>
>Luckily, cooler heads prevailed and the bill was trashed.
I wonder if anybody in Personnel knows what t
On Thu, 10 May 2007 07:48:19 -0400, Dan Espen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Take my advice.
>
>Change the CLIST to REXX.
>
>It's not all that hard. There is a rexx equivalent for every CLIST
>operation and the bulk of the conversion is rote.
>You'll be happy you did.
Rexx is much closer to the typ
On 9 May 2007 10:44:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Johnson)
wrote:
>Back when I worked at EDS in the mid 80's, they called programmers Systems
>Engineers. (SE's)
>They even had a program to develop programmers called the SED program. (also
>had a OPD
>program - Operations Personnel Developm
On 8 May 2007 11:24:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe)
wrote:
>XOM shareholders overwhelmingly agree Mr. Raymond's accomplishments were
>worth every penny awarded him by the board -- literally a "drop in the
>bucket" when compared to the company's capitalization and quarterly
>dividend
On 8 May 2007 09:28:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Justice)
wrote:
>>How much do *you* think a CEO is worth?
>>
>
>most of them, not even worth five cents. However, for the few (and I do
>mean few) good ones, no more than a couple of million dollars, tops.
What process should stockholders
On 8 May 2007 09:04:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petersen,
Jim) wrote:
>It is a sad day. I saw what happened to Landmark once ASG took over.
>A lot of good people left because of the way ASG handled things. A lot
>of good friends remain but some of those are not really happy working
>for ASG fo
On 7 May 2007 19:06:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman)
wrote:
>We should start by offshoring the CEO's ;-)
>
>Then raise their taxes such that the more they make, the less they get
>to keep.
So the CEOs get offshored where they don
On 4 May 2007 17:16:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I just wonder how long it's going to be before people finally WAKE UP in
>this country and quit putting up with the offshoring, the outsourcing, the
>"free trade" b.s, the H1B visa SCAM and completely idiotic ceo compensation.
People are
Is this related to the intermittent problem of editing a member
exiting from it, submitting JCL that uses, and then having the JCL
wait until we log off before it knows we're done with it?
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On 7 May 2007 00:13:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) wrote:
>> Strangely z/VM isn't on the list for virtualization -- don't know how they
>> missed that one
>
>Not strange at all - it's because the wider world has no bloody idea.
>I see customers jumping on (server) virtualization, and they thi
On 4 May 2007 11:22:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chicklon, Tom)
wrote:
>I once worked at a place were the mailroom had a sign in it that read:
>
> "NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST OR MISPLACED MAIL"
>
>Wouldn't we all like to be not responsible for the one and only thing we are
>responsible for!
T
On 4 May 2007 08:33:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark H. Young)
wrote:
>Here, here.remember, this is a GOV't Contract.that is FEDERAL Gov't
>folks. Military or not, don't matter none. And they can just walk in one day
>and say CLEAR OUT.without having to give a reason other than "..
On 4 May 2007 10:36:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom
Marchant) wrote:
>There are historical (hysterical?) reasons for small block sizes, too. Long
>ago,
>when you might have only had 120K available for your program and data, you
>might have had to keep your blocks much smaller. Today, it's us
On 3 May 2007 12:12:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Levy) wrote:
>I went through this exact route. I was a sysprog for a number of years
>than transitioned over to software development on the mainframe. I moved
>over to development on OS/2 and than windows. The tools and debuggers
>made it quite
On 3 May 2007 10:17:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) wrote:
>BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A. ?
"Average salary" for a country doesn't effect the logic someone uses
to determine his value. Otherwise Hollywood or the NBA or a
company's board of directors could offer twice the average
Our mainframe will be replaced within the next 4 years. Lots of my
peers are retiring and working part time with the old system, which
will help tremendously with the rest wanting to be retrained. We
already have Oracle DBAs, so our non-retired IDMS DBA will just move
over (He has retired IDMS
On 30 Apr 2007 08:00:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas H Puddicombe)
wrote:
>>Unless you have gotten so old you can't remember what your own code does.
>
>I have had that problem since way before I got old (or at least older).
>The
>two main reasons why I write lots of comments in my code:
On 27 Apr 2007 09:07:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Kent) wrote:
>The human mind has a limited capacity for organizing information into
>something meaningful. It would be interesting to see a graph showing the
>percentage of people able to properly handle various levels of complexity,
>and I s
On 27 Apr 2007 10:36:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>>Internet is only a reasonable approach when companies are willing to
>>provide the same level of quality control over their web sites
>
>The WWW is not the Internet. Why not use FTP?
Offer whatever your customers
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:42:49 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A bit off topic: I find your input to these threads in general to be
quite useful. They appear to take a fair amount of work - are they
part of your jobs, or is this just a style you are comfortable with?
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I wonder if publicizing this will cause companies to be more open to
thinking of IBM when they think of large server needs.
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On 25 Apr 2007 12:41:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>Paraphrasing: Having so many instructions will simply confuse the
>programmer! Better to have "one, true way" than many.
>
>http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_virtues_of_monoculture
>html
>
>This article is basi
On 25 Apr 2007 05:24:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
>Is it sufficient explanation that storage used to be expensive?
>
>But why does the deficiency persist into the 21st century?
Change is expensive.
That said, a big reason that OS-X has fewer vulnerabilities than
Window
On 18 Apr 2007 12:24:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GAVIN Darren
* OPS EAS) wrote:
>Mainly as 1. Cobol solutions are few magnitudes easier to maintain in
>the long run, and that 2. Java left out native structures making it a
>pain to use in most cases. We do use some VB here and there.
There aren'
On 18 Apr 2007 10:54:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rugen, Len) wrote:
>Future potential
>
>>
>> What makes one profit contributor more important than another?
Well, future potential has more than one side.If software has the
biggest potential for IBM, it also has the biggest potential for
com
On 18 Apr 2007 09:38:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstock)
wrote:
>"Revenue in software, IBM's most important profit
> contributor, rose 9%, or 5% adjusted for currency.
> About half its growth came from acquisitions."
What makes one profit contributor more important than another?
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On 17 Apr 2007 23:32:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Even I - as a non-mainframer - see more and more articles which bring
>contra arguments against using mainframes.
The article says that people don't consider mainframes as a place to
put their new data warehouse unless they already have m
On 15 Apr 2007 06:09:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>That's the classic example, but there are many others. M$ seems to be
>in love with the concept of active documents and never takes security
>into account when they extend a format to include executable content.
I
On 11 Apr 2007 05:46:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Adam)
wrote:
>
>1. There is a limit to the complexity a personal system can tolerate due to
>the lack of expertise in the general user, so this becomes a limiting factor
>in deployment. These systems will tend to remain portals into lar
On 10 Apr 2007 10:12:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Taylor,
Clarence B) wrote:
>Oopssorry shouldve been COND=(0,LE)misread column in JCL manual
Nice. Quick test worked.
//ZHBTEST JOB (,'COPY SOME DATA'),
// 'U56,H BRAZEE',RESTART=STEP02,COND=(0,LE),
On 10 Apr 2007 09:51:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pommier, Rex
R.) wrote:
> Doesn't this simply restart the job at the specified step and continues
>execution through the end of the job? I got the impression from Judy's
>original question that she just wanted to rerun the specified step.
>That, I
On 9 Apr 2007 15:35:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>>I'm not getting the perspective here - how do I compare these two?
>>(should we add the number of Windows licenses to the comparison?)
>
>The perspective I failed to communicate is that ORACLE is the largest licensed
>DB in th
On 9 Apr 2007 17:37:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason)
wrote:
>This reminds me of a question I was asked while "grubbing" for a grant to
>take me through university:
>
>"Why is it absurd to say there are no two trees in the world with the same
>number of leaves?"
I guess there are lots o
On 6 Apr 2007 13:10:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>According to a Canadian IBM'r, there are approximately 6,000 mainframe
>licences world-wide.
>
>To put it in perspective, there are approximately 230,000 Oracle licences.
I'm not getting the perspective here - how do I compare
On 6 Apr 2007 05:57:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Cole) wrote:
>And Seymour's right, you then went on to totally miss the point that,
>outside of the currently dying FLES-ES offerings, IBM's pricing
>structure is simply not affordable to small businesses such as mine
>and many others who a
On 4 Apr 2007 12:59:00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>>Which is a good reason for IBM to not be in the business of selling an
>>operating system.
>
>And, what would you use to run all your mainframe apps and sub-systems on?
>Air?
The OS is a tool for that IBM uses to produce its
On 4 Apr 2007 07:29:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Brock) wrote:
>
>I suspect instead, it wants us to have huge, secure, database machines
>that are fast and use up less energy than Windows farms - and IBM
>doesn't care how we choose to display the data on our desktops. And
>it would be quite c
On 4 Apr 2007 09:44:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Day) wrote:
>If PSI wins, and IBM is forced to license z/OS on any platform, who is going
>to be driving the train?
>Someone has to. In my opinion, what will kill the mainframe is if the market
>becomes a commodities
>market where anyone
On 3 Apr 2007 14:54:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
>Ah, but it was easier to migrate from Studebaker to Rambler or
>Dodge than from z/OS to Windows. In the most ruthless scenario,
>the vendor continues to serve an ever-dwindling captive customer
>base at ever-increasing unit
On 1 Apr 2007 17:15:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
Sipples) wrote:
>I wish the press and experts would be a little more precise and stop using
>the word "system." To most people, system means hardware.
I doubt that very much.
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On 30 Mar 2007 10:01:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindy
Mayfield) wrote:
>Thanks Chris. You have in fact hit upon the fundamental problem here: not
>mine, but my associate's. As I explained it to my (non-technical) wife, what
>he is doing is akin to saying "if it takes me an hour to drive into tow
My first CRT based editor was Roscoe. I had lesser editors later.
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On 30 Mar 2007 06:20:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Pace) wrote:
>Almost makes you want to go back to completely using cash again.
Even cash is plastic now - with gift cards.There are lots of
reasons for not wanting a record of how we spend our money, starting
with buying presents for our
On 29 Mar 2007 10:41:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>>If people are doing that, then your charge back policies should be
>>reviewed. NOT, what the user is doing to get their job done.
>
>The users' jobs include following company policies.
That is correct.But as
On 29 Mar 2007 09:29:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>>Yes I know about ROSCOE and the others (Wylbur etc.) and while they
>>are OK once you learn them I found I kept wishing that I had ISPF.
>
>When I had ISPF and SuperWylbur® I used both and kept wishing that I
>had
On 27 Mar 2007 08:04:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Hoffman)
wrote:
>I do have a -1 Second Edition (September 1972). I think that is the earliest
>one that I have.
>
>Fred Hoffman
>TAD
>
>Mine says -2 Third Edition (February 1974)
The corner with the suffix of mine is worn out. I don't se
On 23 Mar 2007 09:28:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson,
Steve) wrote:
>No, you have one of the replacement booklets. The S/360-20 ref summary
>was a yellow card, similar to the S/360 larger systems "Green" card. I
>used to have one, but someone stole it out of my desk some years ago. I
>ordere
On 28 Mar 2007 06:21:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>IBM sells lots of things, and I don't see any correlation between
>sales figures and quality. The "everybody else has one" argument is
>not an appropriate criterion for purchase decisions.
Except nowadays, everybo
On 27 Mar 2007 06:18:39 -0700, "vikki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How should i run only step 02 in JCL as step 01 and 03 should not
>run???
Is this something that will happen repeatedly, so that you will change
the JCL?
Or would it be easier to make an in-line PROC and edit out 03 for
today?
I
Someone came to me, she accidentally opened a print with a large SDSF
file (she typed "X" by itself).
She's afraid to hit PRINT CLOSE because the doesn't want to print it.
(How does it know that it's XP rather than XD? Or does it act like a
SPSF print?)
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tries some others I have found on the web.If someone has the time
to look at my input and output, please let me know at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll send it to them off of the
listserver.
Thanks.
On 20 Mar 2007 12:33:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Veilleux, Jon
L) wrote:
>Are you on z/OS 1.7 or above? If not then make sure that STDOUT and STDERR are
>pointing to HFS files:
Yes.
>//STDOUT DD PATH='/tmp/test2.out',PATHOPTS=(OWRONLY,OCREAT)
>//STDERR DD PATH='/tmp/test2.err',PATHOPTS=(
On 20 Mar 2007 12:24:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Veilleux, Jon
L) wrote:
>You can use OCOPY to send it to SYSOUT similar to this job which issues
>'java fullversion' then copies the output to SYSOUT:
>
>//JESSTEP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=8M,
>// PARM='SH java -fullve
On 20 Mar 2007 09:03:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>/TMP should have been /tmp (lowercase). There is not likely to be a /TMP
>subdirectory. The original message had it in lowercase, so you edit
>session is likely set to CAPS ON. UNIX work pretty much demands CAPS OFF
>to not me
I edited the [] to two letters and did a TSO change command to x'ad'
and x'bd' respectively.
I still got:
FSUM1009 Unable to execute the shell.
Options Report for Enclave main 03/20/07 12:46:02 PM
Language Environment V01 R07.00
My keyboard emulator said
On 20 Mar 2007 11:03:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lesseg, Jon)
wrote:
>You need to hit the Attention Key (CNTL-F1 on my reflection 3270
>emulator) to interrupt the Rexx.
My PA-1 emulation moves me between mainframe accounts (IDMS test,
CA-7, ISPF, etc).
Checking my emulator, attention is CTL-A f
On 20 Mar 2007 10:49:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Veilleux, Jon
L) wrote:
>I'm not sure what you mean. You just copy the exec into a PDS in your
>SYSPROC concatination, I used member name 'brack'.
>Then when you edit the JAVA source code enter 'brack' on the command
>line. I'm not sure where you a
On 20 Mar 2007 10:25:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Veilleux, Jon
L) wrote:
>Here is a REXX ISPF Edit Macro that will translate square brackets [] to
>the correct hex codes. Put it in your CLIST concatination and from he
>ISPF edit command line enter 'BRACK' (or whatever you choose to call
>it):
It
On 20 Mar 2007 09:35:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Veilleux, Jon
L) wrote:
>John is correct. You must have CAPS OFF on your edit profile.
>Jon
That got rid of the JCL error:
IEF376I JOB/ZHBHELLO/STOP 2007079.1057 CPU0MIN 00.05SEC SRB 0MIN
00.00SEC
READY OCOPY INDD(INPUT) OUTDD(OUTPUT) T
On 20 Mar 2007 08:41:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Veilleux, Jon
L) wrote:
>Try this...the java translations for [] will need to be fixed. One of the
>problems of E-Mail and cut and paste. Also you will need to be at a level of
>z/OS that supports SYSOUT for STDIN STDERR, or you could change thos
On 13 Mar 2007 11:36:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave
Kopischke) wrote:
>Our SVC 235 is dynamically installed, so it could also mean a product
>upgrade is required.
There was an IDMS upgrade this past weekend - we passed this
information to the DBAs.
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CEE0374C CONDITION=CEE3250C TOKEN=00040CB2
And
JOB02268 IEF450I USCLBRS USCL#2 USCL - ABEND=SFEB U REASON=
618
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On 12 Mar 2007 09:16:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote:
>
>Software could get along fine using GMT/UTC worldwide. *People* who
>organize meetings would need to know availability schedules of invitees.
I'm a person who would be glad to go Zulu. But software and I need
to work with
On 12 Mar 2007 08:28:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>Another US-Centric series of posts.
>Only Canada and the US moved to DST, this weekend past.
>And, only the US seems to think it mattered to the rest of the world.
>
>(I was going to say all of North America, but I cannot recal
On 12 Mar 2007 07:05:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>Please remember that the US media is hysteria oriented and loves to feed
>fear to the "common man" (i.e. morons). The biggest problem that I had
>was this morning. I hate getting up before the sun rises. I am a diurnal
>animal
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:10:30 -0700, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>IBM distributes it in hlq.SISFEXEC as member ISFESUM which has an
>>alias of SUMMARY.
>
>Thanks, ISF.SISFEXEC(ISFESUM) is in our ISRDDN path. How does the
>alias work?
Ahh, ISF.SISFE
On 9 Mar 2007 09:52:48 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Zelden)
wrote:
>IBM distributes it in hlq.SISFEXEC as member ISFESUM which has an
>alias of SUMMARY.
Thanks, ISF.SISFEXEC(ISFESUM) is in our ISRDDN path. How does the
alias work?
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On 8 Mar 2007 11:36:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote:
>You gotta just get used to the "new way". The "new way" is pretty, it's
>"kewl", you can get around in it with mouse clicks instead of a bunch of
>typing, etc.
>
>They gotta get rid of the "old way" because all it does is work
On 1 Mar 2007 21:57:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Hewson)
wrote:
>what "our" and "we" ?!?!
I was responding to someone objecting to outsourcing for security
reasons - I hope that my answer applies to a variable "we".
In the example of defeating the USSR, it was the wealth of the West
that w
On 1 Mar 2007 12:59:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson,
Steve) wrote:
>I'm baffled at outsourcing to countries that are a security risk to the
>USofA. Countries that have a sizeable number of Islamic radicals should
>not be targets of outsourcing.
How about keeping our business inside our coun
On 1 Mar 2007 07:33:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Merritt)
wrote:
>It is an old, proven marketing ploy. Humans are programmed to respond to
>any thing 'new'. In ancient times, it could be food for you, or
>something that wants to make food of you. Either way, it was a life or
>death situation.
On 26 Feb 2007 11:28:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave
Kopischke) wrote:
>I want to hear about the results whether it works or not. If it works, then
>I want enough information to evaluate whether this kind of migration might
>be beneficial to us.
Most projects are somewhere in between.
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On 20 Feb 2007 13:44:04 -0800, "Bo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Today we shut down and boxed up the z/OS system. It's rolling out the
>door.
>
>Most of the operation got switched to either an AS/400 or VM/VSE
>platform.
>
>It was nice being here. I will lurk a while and then end my
>subscription.
On 20 Feb 2007 11:03:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstock)
wrote:
>> Change is good.
>>
>
>Well sure. And big change is better than small change.
>And big currency is even better.
With some databases, currency is essential.
On 20 Feb 2007 09:06:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey D.
Smith) wrote:
>Now that FLEX-ES is all but history, a small-time z/OS developer like me has
>no choice but to change careers with no safety-net. If any of you are in
>the same boat, I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
I would not rec
On 20 Feb 2007 06:27:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Hawkins)
wrote:
>Some of them probably cannot even read this e-mail and will never need to,
>let alone find it necessary to learn a dead number system that for some
>unfathomable reason gets tacked on to the end of movie credits.
Not to menti
On 19 Feb 2007 18:08:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john gilmore)
wrote:
>> Likewise, I consider teaching Roman numerals a waste of time.
>>
>
>I instead judge anyone who cannot read (and write) Roman numerals
>subliterate.
Why?If someone doesn't know past, say 100 - is that any less
useful
On 20 Feb 2007 04:34:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vernooy,
C.P. - SPLXM) wrote:
>Correct, Dutch and German do it that way.
>I never regarded as keen to see time pass by, but more as "halfway
>towards 8 o'clock". This could both be interpreted, comparable to the
>glass either being half full or hal
On 19 Feb 2007 10:40:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John)
wrote:
>Indeed, that was the "main" reason cited by a former employer for
>refusing to implement "direct deposit" of payroll checks. They budgeted
>the projected interest they would earn during the "float" period between
>us cashing o
On 19 Feb 2007 09:30:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>> Since we all are "products of our environments", it's "obviously"
>> somebody else's fault whenever we do something wrong.
>>
>> .About that Mojave Beachfront property I'
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2096588,00.asp
Opinion: Despite having long since lost its "star" status in the view
of many IT watchers, the mainframe is showing continued growth and is
beginning to claim a new generation of users.
I try to stay away from clichés. But try as you mig
On 16 Feb 2007 11:01:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
>One thing that can be done with the Konqueror web browser and KDE on
>Linux is to use "KDE Wallet". This is an encrypted file which contains
>various userids and passwords. Konqueror (and other software) can
>interface with th
On 16 Feb 2007 09:05:19 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman)
wrote:
>That's true, Walt. But how do you prevent the user from burying his id,
>or an anagram of it, in the password without using an exit? We found
>that to be the most prevalent security-related issue when we had to
>grant acce
On 14 Feb 2007 09:14:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
>Isn't it merely a matter of time, though, before the technology
>arises to spoof fingerprint readers? Then we'll need to be
>concerned not only that a dishonest waiter copies our credit
>cards, but that a dishonest busboy l
On 14 Feb 2007 06:31:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>> I think he is - but it might be more secure than in shops that require
>> passwords that are so strong that people don't remember them, but
>> write them down on yellow post notes.
>
>This is easy to stop. Restrict distribut
On 13 Feb 2007 10:49:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Or are you saying that mixed-case increases security in those rare
>shops that haven't implemented revoking IDs on wrong passwords?
I think he is - but it might be more secure than in shops that require
passwords that are so strong that peo
On 6 Feb 2007 05:59:50 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz ,
Seymour J.) wrote:
>>Subject: Dorting multiple VSAM and PS files
>
>Check with Dortmunder ;-)
Can we trust him?
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On 5 Jan 2007 18:46:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Y Odo)
wrote:
>So how does one advocate intelligently for its use? I mean, if
>Sun+Oracle is better, cheaper, faster, etc. than
>z/OS+CICS+ADABAS/Natural why should I be pushing for z/OS?
You shouldn't be pushing for any platform. You
On 30 Jan 2007 13:50:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George, William ,
DHS-ITSD) wrote:
>Note: I can write a simple REXX to do this but need to do it in SORT.
>Double sigh.
Most any language would do this - why do you need to do it in SORT?
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On 30 Jan 2007 11:36:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>Well, since I didn't start this very OFFTOPIC discussion, I feel free to
>ask why anybody would upgrade to Vista? Or any other version of Windows?
>I've been 99.9% Windows free at home (on Linux) for a couple of years
>now
So
On 29 Jan 2007 09:44:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger)
wrote:
Could you explain what you're doing here?
>//S1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
>//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
>//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
>//IN DD DSN=... input file (FB/80)
>//CTL2CNTL DD DSN=&&T1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),DISP=(,PASS)
>//OUT DD DSN
On 29 Jan 2007 09:03:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John)
wrote:
>AFAIK they're all SMP/E-installed, so in that regard all are equally
>"easy" to install and maintain. As to "ease of use", the one with which
>you have the most experience will be "easiest to use".
Very true. The hardest pa
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