Try searching under the date.
Charles
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On 8/3/22 5:54 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
There's this.
Interesting.
Do you have a document ID?
I'd like to find more on NIST's site and read it.
Thank you.
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Original message From: Phil Smith III Date:
8/3/22 4:54 PM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looking
for old (fake) humorous IBM password memo There's this.Logon Process
UpdateApril 1, 2022With the
A friend of mine had something like that. The password was SYZYGY.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022, 08:51 Charles Mills wrote:
> I used to have a FAXed or Xeroxed copy of this but I now cannot find it.
> It was a spoof typewritten memo on IBM letterhead purporting to set out a
> new all-IBM password
There's this.
Logon Process Update
April 1, 2022
With the recent spate of supply-chain cyberattacks, the U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines to
secure computer system access.
Previous recommendations included use of randomized,
In a python program I would use the "encoding" option of the "open()" function,
something like this:
file1 = open("file1.name", mode="r", encoding="utf-8")
Or "ISO8859" if you prefer.
Or change the tag on the file before you run your program to tell the system
what is really in there.
What
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:33:47 +0100, Colin Paice wrote:
>...
>However If this is a tagged file eg python file(in ascii) so it has *ls -T
>my.py* of IBM8859-1 , I get the whole file read in ( presumably because
>
IBM8859-1? ISO8859-1? IBM819? Whatever.
What does "ls -THE file" show you?
What
If I open a normal OMVS file with fopen(..,"r") and use fgets I get the
first line of the file.
However If this is a tagged file eg python file(in ascii) so it has *ls -T
my.py* of IBM8859-1 , I get the whole file read in ( presumably because
there were no x15 characters to say end of line)
Are
I once worked at a client that created multiple user IDs for CICS, allowing
them to log on to different regions or applications simultaneously. So for TSO
I might log on to BOB, but for CICS I could log on to BOB1, BOB2 and BOB3. I
know some people swoon at that idea; it doesn't bother me.
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:33:01 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
>Nice. Couple of password stories:
> ...
And more:
>
In the day, there were no password rules, and TSO accepted logon in a single
transaction, "user/password", all type in a displayable field. An intelligent
but
rebellious co-worker
I did sort of the same thing at one time, I had a written list of
passwords but each were missing a couple of characters that were the
same in all.
One of my stories (sorry if I told this before) is when I gave my
mainframe password to an operator one evening to avoid a drive to work.
I told
Ha ha - I was trying to be nice. About a year ago I happened to see a
co-worker's password for something, and there was a 3 character month in it.
On 8/3/2022 8:54 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
Tom,
"WAS pretty common"? I believe most people still use some kind of scheme like
this.
Rex
Colin Paice wrote:
>I remember one test team with a shared userid. They had a scheme where
>you incremented the month so JAN became KBO, etc. and had 4 rules. When I
>asked how they remembered the password they said look on the top of the
>white board, there is a 10 character string. The
So IBM is being accused of transferring MAINFRAME revenues to the cloud
division. If anything, it confirms the future of the mainframe. And, isn’t the
mainframe part of IBM’s cloud infrastructure?
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On Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 11:20 AM, Lance D. Jackson
Eh...Dilbert is a documentary. That's what makes it so funny.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 10:45 AM Charles Mills wrote:
> @Gil, thanks, that's the joke, albeit non in IBM-specific form. Works for
> now.
>
> And yes, of course, I know the xkcd panel. xkcd is amazing: funny, but
> also with truly
A posible item: Word is IBM included the 70 or so mainframes that they had
to give to Kyndryl as part of the divorce as "sales", even though they were
$0 transactions.
But most of this seems to be related to the whole "$26B in cloud revenues",
which is pretty clearly fantasy to anyone who can
I remember one test team with a shared userid. They had a scheme where
you incremented the month so JAN became KBO, etc. and had 4 rules. When I
asked how they remembered the password they said look on the top of the
white board, there is a 10 character string. The password is the middle 8 -
Tom,
"WAS pretty common"? I believe most people still use some kind of scheme like
this.
Rex
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@Gil, thanks, that's the joke, albeit non in IBM-specific form. Works for now.
And yes, of course, I know the xkcd panel. xkcd is amazing: funny, but also
with truly useful tech advice. His "date and time format" cartoon is a classic.
Dilbert can be funny, but seldom contains any actually
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/exclusive_ibm_board_of_directors/
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Interesting! I expected the regular requirements we see today (special
characters, numerics, etc.) but instead it jokes about some of the
tricks people used in those days, like changing nothing but a month
name. I think that was pretty common.
On 8/3/2022 7:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:50:39 -0500, Charles Mills wrote:
>I used to have a FAXed or Xeroxed copy of this but I now cannot find it. It
>was a spoof typewritten memo on IBM letterhead purporting to set out a new
>all-IBM password policy.
>
>If anyone had a copy I would be grateful.
>
Perhaps:
I did with my old ISP this was a normal issue, now I use only gmail and
no issues so far
On 8/3/2022 8:56 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
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I used to have a FAXed or Xeroxed copy of this but I now cannot find it. It was
a spoof typewritten memo on IBM letterhead purporting to set out a new all-IBM
password policy. It had all of the usual stuff: at least one of these, at least
one of those, none of this, but carried to absurd
As you may know for decades there is the non-profif SIG "Rexx Language Association (RexxLA)" that
maintains Rexx and Rexx related technologies, among them (in alphabetic order) NetRexx, Regina, ooRexx.
A short while ago RexxLA has changed their membership model such that interested persons can
Correct, only for compiled Rexx execs. However there are products that
ship compiled Rexx execs (e.g. Netview) so they would need the free
Alternate library in order to run. So you may have more compiled Rexx than
you realize.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 8:54 PM Mark Jacobs <
I'm like 99% sure that the REXX runtime library, either the full function or
alternate does not come into play with interpreted REXX, they're only used for
compiled REXX programs. Correct?
Mark Jacobs
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