Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:24:20 -0500, Graham Hobbs wrote: Earlier today I saw the following: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-tech-skills-that-will-instantly-net-you-10-salary-2013-2#fortran-is-worth-103000-18 Am I wrong in presuming this site is aimed at new(er) entrants into the market ?.

Re: One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss IBM ASCII reference also mentions getting collating sequence wrong in STRETCH IBM Stretch references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread esst...@juno.com
Being from the East Coast - I see a different perspective. Bean Counters only see us as overhead - un-neccessary to some. These Bean Counters would rather pay for several less skilled personnal then pay for a competent, skilled, knowledgeable, technicians. For a country that, built, developed,

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
esst...@juno.com (esst...@juno.com) writes: Being from the East Coast - I see a different perspective. Bean Counters only see us as overhead - un-neccessary to some. These Bean Counters would rather pay for several less skilled personnal then pay for a competent, skilled, knowledgeable,

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
It's like Antiques Roadshow, it might be worth that much, but you have to find the person that's willing to pay it. MA On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:24:20 -0500, Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net wrote: Earlier today I saw the following:

Re: ISPF Scrollable area

2013-02-24 Thread Gozzard, Mark
A little crude but also caters for the user selecting multiple rows. Presuming you're using a TABLE (temporary or permanent), TBDISPL and a panel with a )MODEL. You'll need to set TBLNAME to you table name and PANELID to the name of your panel:- TDTOP = 1

Re: Mod-9 vs. Mod-27 vs. mixed

2013-02-24 Thread Ron Hawkins
Don, I'm can't speak for the EMC and IBM iterations, but with HDS HDP setting up mirrored configurations is just way to easy. I'm guessing it would be similarly easy on the other vendors wide stripe configurations. It's not exactly what you are asking for, but in the lab we are setting up and

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread CM Poncelet
No, you didn't. The UK built the first electronic computer in 1942, Colossus I. From Wikipedia (to save time): Colossus was the world's first electronic /wiki/Electronics, digital /wiki/Digital, computer /wiki/Computer that was at all programmable /wiki/Computer_programming. The Colossus

Re: Reducing Backup Time (Was: Mod-9 vs. Mod-27 vs. mixed)

2013-02-24 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ed, While it's not perfect, what if you did the FlashCopy to a completely controller? If you have HDS DASD, you could virtualize some brand-x midrange disk and FlashCopy or Shadowimage the zFS files/volumes to the midrange storage. Using FlashCopy Incremental means that you only copy what

Re: Improve LLA/VLF usage

2013-02-24 Thread Ron Hawkins
Yes I did. I'll blame the Percocet tablets for that brain fart... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Improve LLA/VLF

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread zMan
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:09 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote: No, you didn't. The UK built the first electronic computer in 1942, Colossus I. One computer doth not an industry make, alas. -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it

Re: Reducing Backup Time (Was: Mod-9 vs. Mod-27 vs. mixed)

2013-02-24 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 24/02/2013 4:45, Ed Jaffe wrote: My question is about whether a DFS/SMB ZFS should be backed up at all given its size and the existence of a daily TSM backup of its contents. In theory, a TSM backup of the contents should be adequate. In practice, there are a few things that I would want

Re: One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-24 Thread Clark Morris
On 23 Feb 2013 19:02:04 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: 'Rewrite' is perhaps hyperbolic. Case insensitive is rather different from case sensitivec The HLASM, DFSORT, C/C++ all have BIFs functional;ly eq The problem is more like Y2K. In both cases, the code must be examined and all

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread CM Poncelet
... but we built ten of them, not just one. Yes, I too have a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it either zMan wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:09 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote: No, you didn't. The UK built the first electronic computer in 1942, Colossus I. One

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread John Gilmore
This particular recurrent discussion of who did what first grows more tedious with the years. Colossus was, if you like, a computer, although not really a stored-program one; so the resolution of this not very interesting question turns on what is meant by the word 'computer', about which full

Re: One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:11:04 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: ... This could be the straw that causes a system to be replaced by a package that handles the functions and also properly handles mixed case (for whatever definition of properly is appropriate for the system and the organization using it).

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/24/2013 11:30 AM, John Gilmore wrote: In general, however, FORTRAN code is better because more coherent than COBOL code; and FORTRAN programmers, most of whom have scientific educations, have always been better paid than COBOL ones. Every mother thinks her baby is beautiful. Better is a

Living Computer Museum

2013-02-24 Thread Gabe Goldberg
http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/ -- fascinating, check it out. Not a stuffy warehouse with techno-artifacts, a laboratory for reincarnating running systems! -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042

Re: Fortran

2013-02-24 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 2/24/2013 4:24 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: I know a number of system programmers with higher remuneration than ForTran or CoBOL programmers; should I generalize that HLASM programmers get paid more? Don't they? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive

Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-24 Thread Sean P. McBride
All, I recently found out that Edson Hendricks (the creator of VNET) wrote a copy of Spacewar! for the IBM System 360 while he was an MIT student. It was based on the PDP-1 version, and it was used by MIT for their annual open house in either 1965 or 1966. My understanding is that this S/360

Re: Mod-9 vs. Mod-27 vs. mixed

2013-02-24 Thread Don Williams
My shop has IBM DS8000 DASD. Defining mirror configurations is easy, I just think it should be automatic. For example: 1. I cannot say define target volume like the source volume. 2. I cannot change the size of the pair of source and target volumes as a single operation. I have to break the

BCPii question HWIQUERY on IMAGE

2013-02-24 Thread Shameem .K .Shoukath
hi all,   Cross posting onto this list    I am able to run the sample program HWIXMCS1 and getting output.    However when i tried to retrieve more information like HWI_DEFCAP,  HWI_PARTITIONID etc from the HWIQUERY on IMAGE, i am not getting any values for the new variables at all.    I am

Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
In a google search, I saw a textbook mention of the game, and that it was ported. No mention of the software. Did find a web site with the PDP-1 version with a PDP-1 emulator on the browser page at