such a function. Is this something
easy I can point out to him, or am I mistaken about it being a feature
available to all CICS installations?
For that matter, is it something I can maybe find myself, without even
bothering him?
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/* Be
ething~ in and it'll at
least match ~a~ time zone.
Not as satisfying as having The Real Local time-zone name, I agree.
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/* There's a new study out that says too much caffeine can cause
hallucinations. I think it's
or the 212 oil contracts Shah bought for
1 cent each, the broker only required his account to have $30 of margin per
contract. It was as if Interactive Brokers thought the potential loss of buying
at one cent was one cent, rather than the almost unlimited downside that
negative prices imply, he
us both wanted to save
the world, after all.
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/* The historian Macaulay famously said that the Puritans opposed bearbaiting
not because it gave pain to the bears but because it gave pleasure to the
spectators. The Puritans were right:
r would do that with a machine he built, either. Too many
things can go wrong.
But a fun movie, if you can ignore that.
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/* The only thing UFO aliens deserve is to be ignored...and when we finally
develop the right missiles, to have thei
Not really the same thing, but I love Dave Barry's comment on brand naming (see
tagline).
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/* I also attended Friday night's baseball game between the Marlins and the San
Francisco Giants at the stadium here. It was origin
Well, at least ~one~ person actually addressed his question! I was beginning
to think I was going to have to research it myself, because no one else seemed
to want to answer and I was beginning to feel a sort of corporate embarrassment
about it.
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Ok, stupid question: What's a swapbar? It sounds familiar, so maybe it's
something I'm familiar with but have just forgotten momentarily. But...?
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/* The only thing UFO aliens deserve is to be ignored...and when we final
This, by the way, has been a fascinating discussion, for me at least. My
thanks to Mr Sipples for contradicting what I thought I knew without
question.
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/* Being a programmer is one thing above all else: It is understanding how
things
So maybe - maybe, I don't know either - if I sign on to z/OS with a
certificate, or LDAP, or anything other than the usual, the sign-on routine
MAKES UP an 8-byte ID and stores it in the ACEE. If so, after that
everything works fine, I guess.
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in that case? Isn't RACROUTE the funneling point for all such checks?
And doesn't RACROUTE require an 8-byte ID to identify the actor?
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/* To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors
nobleness. -Poor Ric
ID, and then perform tasks on the mainframe using that ID, how does
RACF-or-whatever determine permissions? The OS asks whether has
access to datasets or other resources - and that question allows 8 bytes for
. Even if I've logged on from some other OS using a longer ID,
inside z/OS the system i
The past, yes, obviously. Also obviously: Not so very dead.
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/* If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. -Geoge S
Patton */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM
MQ, TSO, CICS, IMS - whatever the environment, the ID has to be
authenticated by RACF (or ACF2, or TSS). As far as I know they're all
limited to the usual 39 characters, and a max length of eight.
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/* If everyone is thinking alike,
in a PARMLIB member named
ISF-something. I have one old SDSF manual, but I'm not convinced it's the one
I need.
1) Can anyone tell me what parm I should look for that controls this, and in
what member?
2) What manual should I consult to find out more about this?
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ast it
isn't merely presentation.
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/* There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God "Thy
will be done", and those to whom God says, in the end, "THY will be done".
-from _The Great Divorce_ by C S L
rammers at some companies were either
wasteful of it, either carelessly or ignorantly. Judging from my own
experience, I think both are true.
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/* I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a
good rousing sn
ve this under control and
will start work on it when they need to". I really did think that.
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/* I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a
good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws
se
of the language it's written in...would it?
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/* I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a
good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into
your eyes, is really one o
ligent
answer. I always ~thought~ I was awake, the first two times. But I wasn't
really. Sometimes she had to start over only once. Usually twice. Never
three times.
Answering in my sleep? Not that I recall.
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/* Sometimes you fe
Wait, what? Since when?
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/* Great good nature, without prudence, is a great misfortune. -Poor Richard */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent
courses getting me thoroughly grounded in COBOL and JCL. There
are some things I would probably never have learned without formal training.
I think I'm often more cock-sure of myself than reality warrants; must avoid
that.
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/* This
linguistic stories is about Captain Cook exploring Australia
(that was Cook, right?), who upon first seeing a kangaroo from a distance asked
"what's that?".
And the local guide replied "kanga roo" - which means, in his language, "it's a
roo".
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x27;t sound like a COBOL problem at
all.
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/* The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to
primitive attack. People often overlook the obvious. -Dr Who, 1978 */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
eople
become aware of it now in the light (so to speak) of COVID-19, that's all to
the good, and if IBM can garner a little more credit for what they've been
doing all along, so much the better.
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/* As a father, I have a vested intere
I don't know from bash - I can barely spell it - but despite the popularity of
REXX among its adherents, including myself, it doesn't seem to ~me~ that
"everyone knows REXX". Didn't I see IBM trying to find REXX programmers to
work for them, a year or two ago?
Like talking about a VIN number or an ATM machine. It could be worse, though;
I once heard someone refer (really!) to an "automatic ATM machine".
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/* Another reason why creative individuals prefer to work at home, as oppo
or self-referential joke. Finally gave in and
clicked on the link. Yeah, that was it.
(Not a quine: "Thit sentence contains exactly threee errors.")
Delays, delays...
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/* The kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning
ught, come to think of it.
Wait, I remember - that wasn't me, it was some other guy.
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/* If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-
x27;s Japanese. And so on.
In the same vein I once tried to count how many programming languages I've used
at one time or another. For that purpose I cast the net pretty wide, and I'm
pretty sure I included JCL. Hey, it's got "L" in the name, right? It even has
an
He was just responding to your parenthesis, I assumed.
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/* Q: Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous? A:
Because no one wants to quit. */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN
, but I'd have to remember how. Anyway, since I'm pretty sure
the solution is in Windows, you'll probably want to move the question to a
different forum, though someone here may know.
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/* Children need love, especially whe
obligated to say so.
(Once I learned that "comprise" is does not mean "compose", you see, I have to
point it out wherever possible.)
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/* If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still
nd submit JCL, create PDSs and GDGs
etc - in other words, that Hercules emulates MVS. But if it doesn't emulate
the mainframe operating system, what ~does~ it do?
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/* When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly
thing I write
when tackling a new language; when I can get my first program to display "Hi,
there!", I know I'm on the right track.
I never sneer at that particular first step, however trivial it seems later.
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/* Another
fection-of-humans-global-clock/384355/
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/* Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. -from
_Calvin & Hobbes_ */
--
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig
e'll never be a consensus on it).
Is there any ~legal~ basis for the assertion?
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/* A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad
measures. -Daniel Webster */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainf
ted interview when I registered for
social-security last year; my SSA interviewer repeatedly had to consult with a
coworker to figure out how to handle me. She got it figured out in the end (I
suppose). If you want to talk more about that, feel free to contact me
off-line, for what my ignorance is wor
(Regarding that tagline:) YES!! "Science" is only superficially an activity,
and even more superficially a job; much more important it's a philosophy, a way
of approaching the discovery of knowledge. By that definition some scientists
aren't, and some non-scientists a
Am I being unnecessarily cynical to wonder about the risk of taking on new
COBOL programmers who "volunteer" to help the state remediate applications that
hand out money?
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/* Law #36 of combat operations: Radar tends to fai
may already
know how much depends on ~timing~.
Ageism? I'm willing to believe it's real, but I haven't noticed it. But then
I'm only 65. Maybe in another ten years.
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/* A delay is better than a disaster. -Found tape
x27;t know why it's so
difficult for me. I assume it's not everyone who has that problem.
But sometimes nothing but recursion will do.
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/* Dad and Mom can share the driving chores, as follows: Dad will start out at
the wheel, the
about the same time I had to begin
using it for more than just one-line queries. The trick, I finally concluded,
is to ~start~ with the FROM clause. Design that first, and maybe GROUP BY
next, and everything else seems easy enough after that.)
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I'm not familiar with Prolog, but if it doesn't (in John's words) do Input,
Process or Output I can see it wouldn't have much in common with COBOL.
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/* The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no m
ed the two
sources and wrote what we saw before going back to his Real Job.
Maybe I'm doing him an injustice.
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/* There are two rules for ultimate success in life:
1) Never tell everything you know.
-Randy Keck */
-Original Me
ot; manner: This paragraph
accomplish a certain task by executing paragraphs one through three, then two
more, and this subparagraph executes subsubparagraphs, and so on. Forms good
habits, I think.
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/* My life is in the hands of any fool wh
o any CICS development. Didn't plan it that
way, just never ended up on a CICS project. But I think that's unusual; I
certainly don't mean it as a contradiction to Kirk's general point, with which
I completely agree.
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ally need COBOL programmers,” Murphy
said of the outdated computer language.
I'm thinking the headline writer got a little carried away.
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/* Another reason why creative individuals prefer to work at home, as opposed
to an office, is that when
ll.) But it makes a lot less
difference to me now than it did fifty years ago; I know that once I've
become familiar with a language, it'll seem pretty natural.
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/* By afflictions, God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have s
M-not-so-humble-O it simply isn't.
It is a very handy 3GL, but that's all.)
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/* Now some of you are scratching your heads and wondering "How does a
person with an IQ higher than pastry get Super Glue in his ear and not k
. "But I'm curious: Why is everybody so
interested in me?"
"Well," said the Prime Minister. "The year 10 000 is just around the corner,
and it says in your files you know COBOL..."
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/* Doubt is not a pleas
er teacher, God bless
him!
By the way, Steve, I enjoyed your tagline :).
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/* Beware of any Christian leader who does not walk with a limp. -Bob Mumford
*/
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailt
eans a "dead language", in any practical sense, but
apparently the writer got it right that it isn't being taught in schools.
Dunno about 55 to 85 $/hr, though, unless things have gotten a lot worse
since I got into the security side.
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What DSN? Not sure what question you're asking here. Or did I cull too
much of the conversation?
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/* This may not be the last time that I mention this, but this is not much
fun. -from the early 2001 log of Cam Lewis, captain of
tines just freeze
up...is it?
By the way, what ~is~ SVC 99? Some kind of assembler call, I suppose? I've
written in assemblers, but haven't yet learned HLASM. One of my many
ambitions; still trying to get around to it.
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hat this is truly ugly. It just works. Actually I haven't
looked at it in some years; now that I do, I notice a bug in it, one I've never
triggered so it never came to my attention before. I'll have to fix it; maybe
I can improve the ugliness at the same time.
What's a
ws me to create a CA-CLEANUP listing via a foreground
command, or a TSSSIM analysis, without having to set up the JCL for it. But
aside from a DYL-280II syntax check, decades ago now, I don't recall any
user asking me to do it.
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/* T
address ISPEXEC 'CONTROL ERRORS CANCEL'
if fmac then address ISREDIT
else arg args
"Too often you find yourself coding..." repetitive stuff? Gil
if fbat then 'look for a DD
else 'use a predetermined DSN
Hm, no one ever told me choosing a random DD name is passé. I have a TEMPDD
routine that returns a DD name guaranteed to be unused; otherwise many of my
routines would end up conflicting whenever I use them recursively (sort of)
who have to maintain batch JCL, and can still be run in the foreground as
a command without a special wrapper as it was before it was added to the
production schedule.
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/* Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children a
I followed your link. I never knew what a "church key" was, before; I've used
them, of course (I'm 65) but never connected the object with that term.
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/* "Consider how much more you often suffer from your an
would have to be an optional addition,
not a replacement.
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/* If "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron, then so is "liberal values".
-John Aul (j...@symon.com), quoted in A Word A Day */
-Original Message-
I did avoid it, but I did
it by putting the SORT step in a separate job.
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/* Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it.
But the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it While the best
judge
t the same shocked look when I carelessly say someone has "shot his
wad". Sigh. No one ~reads~ anymore.
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/* Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work. -Thomas Edison */
-Or
nstallation - on a client's machine?
(I dunno why you say "unlike VBScript"; isn't it available on every Windows
machine?)
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/* In most states you can get a driver's license when you're 16 years old,
which made a l
Widely available on the mainframe? Could I write something for TSO in it,
for example, and expect it to run on any of my clients' machines? I ask
with real interest.
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/* If you're not failing when you train or test your securi
xpecting a raft of nominations, but please note I said "interpreter" and
"widely available". I'd define VBScript as "widely available" on the PC,
not because everyone uses it but because it'll run on any Windows machine -
no special installation requir
Sure, they would. But when ~I~ say it, it's true.
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/* One of the quickest ways I've found to look foolish is to state positively
what God will not do. -Bob Bridges */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discu
as to read a largish-security
database. The last step is a SORT that takes less than a second - but I had to
put it in a separate job, and have it triggered by the previous job, because
otherwise the dataset would be unavailable for Viewing by any user while the
long job was running.
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B
quot;, but I can do this:
Do 'one time
If v0 = '' Then Exit Do
v1 = function1(v0)
If v1 < 5 Then Exit Do
v2 = functionv2(v1 + othervalue)
If v2 = previous Then Exit Do
MsgBox "TRK: " & v0 & " " & v1 & " &quo
x27;ve encountered most recently. I
haven't used TSO Edit in ... well, must be the early '80s at the latest, maybe
the late '70s.
So what am I missing?
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/* In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one th
27;?','Unrecognized arg' arg; end; end
if acid='' then call abend 'No ACID!',"You're supposed to supply an ACID",
'for me to work with.'
Of course, importance is in the eye of the beholder. But I gave only honorable
mention to CLIST'
I'd be interested in hearing a quick review, Steve, once you've tried it out
and have an opinion. I don't know how serious I am about it, but it sounds
convenient.
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/* That sort of wit which employs itself insolently in
tement; I call it partly as a calculator -
==> tso ev 15*75
...and partly as a quick check on the results of a function call:
==> tso ev node=mvsvar(sysname)
==> tso ev myfunction('XYZ')
But that's about it.)
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is that the From DD has to
be named before the To DD; everything else the operator can type in as it
happens to occur to him.
This makes my REXX execs a little messy up front, but gives me flexibility that
I value. And anyway I'm used to it now. Easily worth the extra trouble to get
ac
mproved before I got
around to it, but I'm thinking about it again now. How did it work for you?
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/* The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and
times. -Poor Richard */
-Original Message-
From: IBM
it for business and personal.
(Besides, I'm totally unwilling to carry around two cell phones.)
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/* When their love was strong they could sleep on the edge of a sword, but now
when they have forgotten, a bed sixty feet across is n
gger and better.)
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/* Give a man fire and he's warm for a day; set him on fire and he's warm
for the rest of his life. -found on the web */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.
, I would correct John's translation this way:
varnx=value(varn||glcv)
if varnx=symbol then do
varfnd=1
varvx=value(varv||glcv)
symbol=varvx
end
Like Mr McKown, I think this is right but I haven't tested the code to be sure.
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ines, power etc, and maintenance of same
including evening cleanup. I've never managed an office but I gather it adds
up to an amount that can be surprising to a worker bee like me to tends not to
notice his surroundings.
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/* Give a
're talking!, I said, and went off to our print shop to figure out
what it would take. Turns out their half-price offer was about what I'd
have to spend to do the printing ourselves. The lesson I came away with:
Printing is expensive.
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Gil, you're probably going to say "yeah, that's not what I meant", but it sort
of does. I mean, that's what the queued() function call will tell you, no?
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/* The worst thing about new books is that they keep us f
should be. Sigh.
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/* When their love was strong they could sleep on the edge of a sword, but now
when they have forgotten, a bed sixty feet across is not sufficient. -Rab
Akiva, quoted in _The Source_ by James Michener */
-Origin
rs me
a little. Could this attitude be more widespread than I want to believe?
Meanwhile, recruiters tell me that mainframers are ever more difficult to find
and our value keeps rising accordingly.
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/* When their love was strong they could sle
maybe I'd have to show my face.
Maybe employers would prefer to know you have a track record before they trust
you to do much out of sight.
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/* Winning isn't everything, but then losing is nothing. */
-Original Message-
for
other positions. If you want, I'll forward a few of them to you; you can, if
you like, use that as contact information to the recruiters who have such jobs
to offer. (But I promise you that almost every IT recruiter has mainframe jobs
to offer.)
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n adults who probably
had ADD when they were kids, before ADD was a thing. I missed it, but for
months after that friends and family members exclaimed to me "Did you see that
60-Minutes episode? They had a picture of Bob Bridges on that show!". I
gather people who had ADD before it
willing to have me work on
their mainframe security from home. Ten years ago I noticed they were doing it
with systems programmers, too. Nowadays I see the occasional req for remote
managers. I suppose there are some jobs that simply cannot be done from home,
forever, but fewer than before
That's a new one on me. How did tapping instead of dialing save you the
fourpence? I'd have thought that whatever allowed the call to go through a)
didn't know the difference between tapping and dialing, and b) wouldn't go
without being paid.
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#x27;t tried it. Backward compatibility
still reigns, doesn't it?
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/* A lie goes half way round the world before the truth can get its pants on.
-- Winston Churchill */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [m
Is it, really? I'm usually a good speller, but I guess I've been doing that
one wrong since I first read "The Hobbit".
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/* It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without
your help.
ur writing to emulate the lead of the NYT and People magazine. Don't fool
yourself into thinking it's the only rule, though.)
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/* Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make
yourself to do the th
Baby-boomer, I presume he means. Born during the '50s, mostly.
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/* Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a
couple of hours in the library. -Frank H Westheimer, chemistry profes
requires more than just one PARSE statement to work
properly, and I never thought to take parens into account. But the general
principles it requires might apply to your problem too.
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/* I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then i
ave
if subconfition2 then leave
v1=calculation(a,b)
v2=calculation(c,d)
if \(v15) then leave
/* process your logic */
end
I think this is simpler to look at.
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/* God's never been disappointed in me, because he never ha
handy to prevent long indented If blocks; multiple ITERATES are much
easier to debug.
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htly in the minority. I'd never heard that it's
a mark of old folks, just that some people hate it and some insist on it.
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John: Well, you would not assure me that it was anything real.
Reason: Nor that it was not.
John: But I
SharePoint
programming... Currently I'm picking up some rudimentary PowerShell. It's a
~big~ world out there, and so far I'm still having fun.
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;, '9' and ''. The second part is parsed by '.', which is "12
word3.ext". Weird, but at least the universe makes sense again.
The trick, I guess, is to remember to class parsing operations according to
precedence, just as we do with arithmetic and Bool
rd3"
>.> "ext"
Surely this is what Thomas expected. I can't imagine what would
legitimately cause REXX to behave in any other way - and I don't understand
why anyone would expect anything different. Now I'm going to go read that
link someone posted that
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