Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-16 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Metal C does NOT use LE. And, of course, with HLASM you have the choice to not use LE or to make your program LE compatible. Lloyd - Original Message From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 9:12:24 AM Subject: Re: Comparison of

Re: /usr/lpp

2012-05-04 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Licensed Program Products. i.e., IBM separate products: COBOL, C, etc. Lloyd - Original Message From: Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, May 4, 2012 7:02:44 PM Subject: /usr/lpp Unimportant question, probably, but I've long wondered...

Re: Programming languages can't have copyright protection, EU court rules

2012-05-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Go re-read the decision. The decision said nothing about the actual SAS code. It said that the documented interfaces including the language could not be copyrighted. The code and the documentation can be copyrighted and protected. Lloyd - Original Message From: Scott Ford

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-27 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Back in my NOMAD days, those types of Nomad procedures were called NOBOL programs: Nomad COBOL. We had lots of people tryng to follow COBOL structure to write Nomad and many of them ended up with similar issues. Lloyd - Original Message From: Edward Jaffe

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-20 Thread Lloyd Fuller
: GO TO cobol In 1334839226.16701.yahoomai...@web180901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 04/19/2012 at 05:40 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: Actually, the 1004 and the 1005 versions. The 1004 was programmed with a plugboard. The 1005 started life as a special plugboard for the 1004

Re: IBM C/C++ Productivity Tools for OS/390

2012-04-20 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I do not know if that is the name of the product, but several things in C/C++ for z/OS report themselves as OS/390. And that is what many of the open source products expect for z/OS. Lloyd - Original Message From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri,

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-19 Thread Lloyd Fuller
...@web180906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 04/17/2012 at 12:38 PM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: Univac SAAL computers ITYM UNIVAC 1005[1]. I had successfully ripped the memory out by the roots; thank you for reminding me :-( [1] SAAL was the assembler. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-18 Thread Lloyd Fuller
cob ridden memory. But I also now remember Ft Ben Harrison (now). I remember the guys talking about the desert and thats about all. Ed On Apr 17, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Lloyd Fuller wrote: In 1969, and until sometime in the 1970s or later, the Army programming school was at Fort Benjamin

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
PFC = Private First Class. An Army rank. The Marines may also use it. Lloyd - Original Message From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, April 16, 2012 7:27:30 PM Subject: Re: GO TO cobol On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:45:21 -0500, Matthew Stitt wrote:

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
In 1969, and until sometime in the 1970s or later, the Army programming school was at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. Graduated in March 1969 as a Staff Sergeant converted to a SP6. Programming since then. lLOYD - Original Message From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net To:

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
years... Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net wrote: In 1969, and until sometime in the 1970s or later, the Army programming school was at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. Graduated in March 1969

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Lloyd Fuller
When I went in 1969, we used a 1401 with 4 tape drives. We were taught COBOL but could not compile: the COBOL compiler for the 1401 needed either disk or at least 6 tape drives. We also learned to program PCM and two Univac SAAL computers that were in use by the Army at the time. Lloyd

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-14 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Walt, Some of it would be difficult unless you embed at least some assembler in the Metal C stuff. For example, all date handling is removed from Metal C even the capability of getting the system date although that is trivial in assembler. There are other things that are missing from Metal C

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Lloyd Fuller
INLINE when OPTIMIZE(0) is in effect All suboptions of INLINE Doesn't the use of metal/builtins.h negate the useful of INLINE? Lloyd - Original Message From: Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, April 13, 2012 12:24:15 PM Subject: Re: Modernizing the BCP

Re: z/OS X-Windows (was: ASCII (was: Unix path name))

2012-04-11 Thread Lloyd Fuller
A large section in the same Programming Guide Understanding z/OS UNIX sockets and internetworking talks about support for the various flavors of sockets with a pointer to the z/OS XL C/C++ Run-Time Library Reference for the exact API. One point about sockets and C on z/OS: most UNIX

Re: USS YORKTOWN(was Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet)

2012-04-11 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Neale, The next question is how do you get the seal tight? Use the Chief's home brew or would the seal be smart enough to require something better? :-) Lloyd - Original Message From: Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, April 11, 2012 10:07:20 AM

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Lloyd Fuller
And, if someone builds an anti-virus program for z/OS, please tell me before you announce it publicly. I know some out-source companies I would like to buy stock in because MIPS are going way up. Lloyd - Original Message From: David Cole dbc...@colesoft.com To:

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Yes, stop and think about it. How can you replace one byte with two and still maintain the same length? Depending upon the characters used, some of the UTF-8 characters are really 16-bits. Lloyd - Original Message From: גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent:

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Lloyd Fuller
UNICODE does, but not necessarily subsets of the full UNICODE. UTF-8 is a subset and UTF-16 is a subset. I am not sure about UTF-32. So It does not surprise me that UTF-8 does not have the Hebrew alphabet. I believe (without checking the actual UNICODE description) that UTF-8 is primarily

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-23 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I attended and worked at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA, USA, in the mid-1970s. We had a 370-155 (later 158). The library was a few buildings away. It had a micro-wave connection to the library at our sister campus in the next city over (Huntington Beach if I remember correctly).

Re: Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-23 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On the older 7bit tape drives with the header that went up and down as the tape was unloaded and loaded, it was also possible to put a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The tape load then caused the SE LOTS of problems. Just ask the Raytheon Boston data center people in the late 1960s. I am

Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field

2012-03-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
That works. In fact you can also do a partial substitution using a variable. Lloyd - Original Message From: Hardee, Chuck chuck.har...@thermofisher.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, March 7, 2012 3:16:05 PM Subject: Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter

Re: TINC?

2012-03-05 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I remember reconfiguring on the fly with MFT. The partitions had to be adjacent in memory and had to be empty: no running programs in those partitions. Lloyd - Original Message From: Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, March 5, 2012 1:27:26

Re: TINC?

2012-03-02 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 1330520469.27305.yahoomai...@web180907.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 02/29/2012 at 05:01 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: No. When we used PCP on the Model 40

Re: TINC?

2012-03-02 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Lloyd Fuller's confusion may be only a terminological one. Still, I too guess that he may have been using DOS. --jg On 3/1/12, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 1330520469.27305.yahoomai...@web180907.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 02/29/2012 at 05:01 AM, Lloyd Fuller

Re: How convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-03-02 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Yes, and from a vendor stand point, since the Ported Tools are NOT standard install, you cannot depend upon them being available at the site. Lloyd - Original Message From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, March 1, 2012 4:09:07 PM Subject: Re: How

Re: TINC?

2012-02-29 Thread Lloyd Fuller
, on 02/28/2012 at 10:49 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: But, of course, with the spooler partition. SPOOL? There is no SPOOL in PCP. Oh, you mean the offline 1401. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html

Re: TINC?

2012-02-28 Thread Lloyd Fuller
But, of course, with the spooler partition. We have to get rid of those excess trees. :-) Lloyd - Original Message From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, February 28, 2012 11:10:04 AM Subject: Re: TINC? Bah! Viva PCP! --

Re: TINC?

2012-02-27 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Isn't that what tincture is for? :-) Or maybe not just the extract. Lloyd - Original Message From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, February 27, 2012 2:23:52 PM Subject: Re: TINC? Is there a cure of TINC? Maybe a treatment ? Sent from my iPad

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
METAL has a very restrictive function set. The C compiler generates assembler as the output and you then have to assemble to get the object. METAL can also use AR mode. There is a separate C manual that describes METAL. Note that if you are using C++, you CANNOT use METAL. METAL is only

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
There is an older version of GCC that is ported to z/OS on the CBT. As far as I am concerned one of the advantages of GCC is that it is NOT LE so you can use it in places that you cannot use normal z/OS C. And it has a larger library than the METAL option of xlc. Lloyd - Original

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
that both generate Assembler source code, but METAL doesn't use C function. ITschak On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net wrote: METAL has a very restrictive function set. The C compiler generates assembler as the output and you then have to assemble to get

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
what I need them to do. Lloyd - Original Message From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, February 3, 2012 10:23:29 AM Subject: Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS) On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:31:12 -0800, Lloyd Fuller wrote: There is an older

Re: XL CPP z/OS first use problem

2012-02-01 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Go back to the other proc and look at your STEPLIB libraries in the execution step. XPLINK requires a different set of libraries. There are three sets for xlc: 1. XPLINK 2. non-XPLINK, LE 3. non-XPLINK, non-LE, for the METAL option. Lloyd - Original Message From: Sevetson,

Fwd: I am finally became Boss...

2011-11-15 Thread Lloyd Fuller
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Re: TSO SCREENSIZE

2011-11-11 Thread Lloyd Fuller
There was also a 2250 in that timeframe, but I do not remember the size. We had one of each in Stuttgart, but could not use them because the request for the extra memory to be able to run the communications program was cut from the budget request. The general did not care about the system

Re: DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL

2011-11-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Add SPACE and VOLUME parameters, and change OLD to MOD. That way if it does exist, it will be deleted, and if it does not, it will be created and deleted in the same step. Use it all of the time. You can also use UNIT=SYSDA (or some such) instead of VOLUME. Lloyd - Original

Re: Scanning JES3 JCL

2011-11-02 Thread Lloyd Fuller
My first computing job after Army programming school was at a place running PCP on a 64K Model 40 during the day and 1401 emulation for production at night. Lloyd Programming since 1969. - Original Message From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To:

Re: Redbook d/l issue

2011-10-14 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Linda, I used your URL for the z114 Redbook and scrolled down through page 29 without problem. I used Firefox v3.6.23. Lloyd - Original Message From: Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, October 13, 2011 5:43:22 PM Subject: Re: Redbook d/l issue

Re: [MVS-OE] compress dataset converting dsname in filename

2011-09-30 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Actually pax will support input or output MVS files: you can pax from an MVS flat file to the appropriate UNIX files or pax into an MVS flat file from UNIX files. But notice that the files being manipulated by pax are always UNIX files. I am not sure about tar do this. I have only done it

Re: [MVS-OE] compress dataset converting dsname in filename

2011-09-30 Thread Lloyd Fuller
), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 8:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Last card reader?

2011-08-18 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I wonder how damaged the card was afterwords? If I recall correctly, the 407 can confetti a deck pretty well. It wasn't as good as the sorters, but it could usually manage. Lloyd - Original Message From: Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, August 18,

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-10 Thread Lloyd Fuller
And the basis for many of the SHARE requirements that generated HLASM. :-) So many thanks to Greg. Lloyd - Original Message From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Sun, August 7, 2011 1:20:01 AM Subject: Re: assembler help! In

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Actually it was canceled because Nixon refused to subside it any longer. Boeing (and I believe Lockheed or someone else) were getting federal subsidies to help pay for the development work. In 1973 or 1974, Nixon made the decision to stop the money flow. Part of the excuses was about the

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Lloyd Fuller
No. ICM ..,7,.. is going to load from the leftmost 24 bits of operand 3 NOT from the rightmost 24 bits. BTDT and had to fix it. Lloyd - Original Message From: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, August 5, 2011 3:25:02 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Programmer-Name in SDSF?

2011-08-02 Thread Lloyd Fuller
About 3 or 4 screens to the right on z/OS 1.10, Dallas, after ? on I command-line: NP JOBNAME eNamePhase Type RNum Programmer-Name Acct No Lloyd - Original Message From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, August 2, 2011 2:32:20

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

2011-07-29 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Back in the 1980s, I was working for the company that does the NOMAD2 product. We had sold our product to a particular secretive government agency after they did a lot of security checking to be sure that we didn't leak data. We were not allowed to say that they were a customer not even to

Re: Fun and games with LE

2011-07-25 Thread Lloyd Fuller
What language are the routines written in? I believe that COBOL has documented behavior that does exactly this: the difference is between STOP RUN and GOBACK if I remember correctly. Other languages may have similar behavior. Lloyd - Original Message From: Binyamin Dissen

Re: Perl (was: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands)

2011-07-21 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I do not know if it is from the IBM Ported Tools or where, but we have Perl on z/OS: /VERSYSB/usr/lpp/perl/lib/5.8.7/ Lloyd - Original Message From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, July 21, 2011 9:51:22 AM Subject: Perl (was: Making Z/OS

Re: APF Authorization

2011-06-02 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Maybe the problem is that it IS working, but what you mean and what System Test means are two different things. :-) I have seen that often enough in design specifications. Lloyd - Original Message From: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011

Re: ZIP and FTP

2011-04-28 Thread Lloyd Fuller
You can also use the UNIX command compress which has been available for longer. It exists under UNIX system services. I use it regularly with UNIX files. I have NOT tried it with MVS side files. Lloyd - Original Message From: John McKown joa...@swbell.net To:

Re: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD

2011-04-14 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Neale, I don't have the ADCD yet so what I say may not be correct. I am currently using the IBM Dallas support center systems. There each ported tool lpp directory has its own zfs volume: /VERSYSB/usr/lpp/ported (POR113.PUTHFS), /VERSYSB/usr/lpp/perl (POR113.PRLHFS), etc. So maybe you can

Re: What is Toronto

2011-02-22 Thread Lloyd Fuller
zMan wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 15:28 -0500 on 02/22/2011, Galambos, Robert wrote about Re: What is Toronto: as a side note. Person airport is not actually in Toronto but another city called Mississauga IOW: It is an Toronto area

Re: Date formats

2010-08-16 Thread Lloyd Fuller
zMan wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Brian Kennelly brian+ibm-m...@bkennelly.net wrote, re days so far in the year as a date format: That is actually a very import format, as well as the full format returned by the TIME macro: 0cyyddd. (Century, year, days in year.) Sure, days this

Re: History of Hard-coded Offsets (Was: TSSO problems)

2010-08-01 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: I believe HLASM is based on the H level assembler with lots of changes. Soem of which had been developed at SLAC. Yep. I was one of the ones that helped develop the business case for them so that John could get the HLASM written after he moved to IBM.

Re: History of Hard-coded Offsets (Was: TSSO problems)

2010-07-20 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Remember: there used to be several levels of assembler: D, E, and F as well as H. D and E in particular had lots of restrictions on what MACROs and COPYs could do because of lack of memory. I believe D would run in a 64K real machine and E required 96K machine. And to make matters

Re: Recommendations for a good old fashion HEX calcuator

2010-06-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I also have a Casio fx-115, but mine is an m and not a s. Works great. Lloyd - Original Message From: Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 1:33:43 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for a good old fashion HEX calcuator yep--casio

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-10 Thread Lloyd Fuller
OS/2 is alive. It is now called ecomstation and the latest releaseis due at the end of the week. It is just no longer sold by IBM. Lloyd - Original Message From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 12:57:48 PM Subject: Re: Amazing

Re: Calcul ate Tape B ytes to Tr acks

2010-05-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
32760 is correct for access method services: you need to leave room for the BDW which gets added by access method for RECFM=B. Access method services treats the BLKSIZE as a signed value so values over 32767 are negative, not positive. The hardware and EXCP supports larger. I have used

Re: You know you've been doing too much MVS when...

2010-03-30 Thread Lloyd Fuller
When I was at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa in the early 1970s, the APL professor had been fighting for a couple of years to get APL as his plate. The review board kept denying him. Even though he explained what it meant, they KNEW that it had to really be something dirty. I don't know

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-26 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Open MVS provides shared memory. Data spaces are used. That said, reading between the lines it looks like the supervisor (and I am not sure if this is the UNIX piece or MVS piece) plays games with the page or segment tables and actually maps the data space memory into the primary address

Re: Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)

2010-03-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I respect your knowledge, Lynn, but I cannot let that go by without saying somethings. 1. NCSS did not go away because of the PC revolution: they gave up after DB bought them. I worked there at the time on VP/CSS. There are MANY things that we did with VP/CSS that even PCs, z/VM and z/OS

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I used WYLBUR (or maybe SuperWYLBUR) in the late 1970s at a time-sharing company in the Washington DC area. I do not remember the name of the company. Lloyd --- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Kington john.king...@convergys.com wrote: From: John Kington john.king...@convergys.com Subject: Re:

Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-21 Thread Lloyd Fuller
It was also a tank before the M1 Abrams. Lloyd --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: From: Chase, John jch...@ussco.com Subject: Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage) To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 3:30 PM

Re: 360 programs on a z/10

2009-12-19 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Don, Was this using the old Formatted File System? The military used lots of this for awhile. Lloyd --- On Sat, 12/19/09, Don Higgins d...@higgins.net wrote: From: Don Higgins d...@higgins.net Subject: Re: 360 programs on a z/10 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009,

Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-08 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Howard Brazee wrote: On 8 Dec 2009 05:02:00 -0800, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote: How big were those, compared to an iPod? Probably like battleship::kayak. Physical size. How about capacity? 360/30s with 256K. Full 2314 = 8 x 800K. I am not sure how many tape drives, but

Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
What do you mean Sun was the first? The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel trailers back in the early 1960s - 40 years before Sun thought of the idea. The Army even had those in Vietnam for the division data centers. Lloyd --- On Mon, 12/7/09, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote:

Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage) What do you mean Sun was the first? The US Army used 360

Re: Portable data centers

2009-12-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. leful...@sbcglobal.net (Lloyd Fuller) writes: What do you mean Sun was the first? The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel

Re: Portable data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage)

2009-12-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Howard Brazee wrote: On 7 Dec 2009 13:01:33 -0800, steve_thomp...@stercomm.com (Thompson, Steve) wrote: What do you mean Sun was the first? The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel trailers back in the early 1960s - 40 years before Sun thought of the idea. The Army even had those in

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2009-10-22 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Actually, my first drive was SCSI. I could get a 40MB Seagate SCCI drive with the controller cheaper than I get could an RLL which was just coming out at the time. It was more expensive than the MFM, but it was larger and faster. :) Lloyd --- On Thu, 10/22/09, Thompson, Steve

Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-09 Thread Lloyd Fuller
There needs to be an expectation level set here: 64 bit addressing does not equal 64 bit arithmetic. You can use the 64 bit arithmetic instructions WITHOUT using 64 bit addressing. Our product does it all of the time. You just need to be running on the correct architecture to use the 64 bit

Re: Does a DD-Statement waste memory after dealloc?

2009-10-09 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Clark Morris wrote: On 9 Oct 2009 01:35:23 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: If these are for QSAM data sets, does the C program do a FREEPOOL (free the buffer pool) on CLOSE. For reasons I don't understand, apparently CLOSE does not automatically free the buffers. I think the

Re: Need new 3270 emulator: SSH, inexpensive, reliable

2009-08-29 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Eric Chevalier wrote: On 25 Aug 2009 14:14:56 -0700, hmerr...@jackhenry.com (Hal Merritt) wrote: VPN is a good solution, but not PCI compliant. That statement just doesn't make sense, and even verges on being factually incorrect. The current PCI DSS document, version 1.2.1, _explicitly_

Re: z890 crypto vs z900 crypto

2009-03-11 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Alan Scott wrote: My team is at a bi-yearly coop test. We have been given a z900 to test on. Our system is a z890 w/o optional PCI crypto. We do have the feature 3863 enabled so we can use the crypto that is built in to the z890. We only need the crypto for SSL TN3270 and FTP/SSL. At coop

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-10 Thread Lloyd Fuller
I was one of the CSS developers. And there are several things that I would love to have the source for. But it is all gone. Lloyd CSS 1979-1984 Nomad 1984-2006 On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:18:20 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: -snip--- And National CSS made

Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?

2007-07-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:25:17 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 07 10:42:55 GMT, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: When? I never considered IBM world and its batch environment timesharing. Timesharing does not do large data processing tasks well; and it's not supposed to. For

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-25 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:32:18 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: If it were not for keys, some customers wouldn't pay on time (or wouldn't pay at all). THAT is my point of disagreement! Most shops that are mainframe shops are large companies. Large companies do NOT want their names in the press. Ergo,

Re: Changing logon behavior using RACF

2007-02-10 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:57:12 -0500, Walter Farrell wrote: On 2/9/2007 12:00 PM, Steve Rawlins wrote: I work at a small company where our z9 is used just for our development and testing, not a production environment. So I sometimes am my own sysadmin, sysprog, security officer, etc. I am

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-09 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:59:22 -0600, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe

Re: EBCDIC to ASCII OPTCD=Q? (JCL)

2006-09-21 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:59:42 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: Once again, thanks to all... but I can't even get a tape mounted, the SMC0043 tells me that the unit cannot be allocated. Uhh, everyone is talking tape. Does the output have to be tape? USS will gladly translate the file to ASCII for

Re: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives

2006-09-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
--- Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Encryption Facility can use HW-based compression before encryption, all on the server. (One has to specify its use because there is no way to uncompress the data on a non-z server.) ??? the hardware compression (CPACF) has been

Re: snding svc dumps

2006-07-26 Thread Lloyd Fuller
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:39:25 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote: In the days of paper dumps, the letter agencies used to cut out the sensitive stuff before giving the dumps to IBM. Bob Shannon Rocket Software Not just IBM. We got more than one dump with 99% of the information redacted. That made it