Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:37:12 +, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: We the willing, Are doing the impossible, I remember it as We the willing, led by the unknowing... Also We the

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3543334435611904.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 02/04/2015 at 01:29 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: What about the freebies listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT to cure your longing to XEDIT (editor for VM / CMS )? THE is fine fot

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-04 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: I still have fond memories of XEDIT. I'm a TSO bigot, but I miss XEDIT. What about the freebies listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT to cure your longing to

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 07:35:13 -0600, John McKown wrote: ​... instead of IBM's Bourne/Korn shell mashup. ​ ITYM POSIX. On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 07:53:39 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: What about the freebies listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT to cure your longing to XEDIT (editor for

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-04 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 07:35:13 -0600, John McKown wrote: ​... instead of IBM's Bourne/Korn shell mashup. ​ ITYM POSIX. On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 07:53:39 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAAJSdjgGUpE+EwwYD_dsE=sdE6e59ivH0=pdfb4xf1ebsg_...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/02/2015 at 06:59 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: I still have fond memories of XEDIT. I'm a TSO bigot, but I miss XEDIT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: I still have fond memories of XEDIT. I'm a TSO bigot, but I miss XEDIT. What about the freebies listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT to cure your longing to XEDIT (editor for VM / CMS )? Of course, not the real thing, but near enough. Groete / Greetings

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:37:12 +, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: We the willing, Are doing the impossible, I remember it as We the willing, led by the unknowing... -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 87r3u8dlvd@garlic.com, on 02/02/2015 at 01:49 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: cp67 distribution was always full source ... and customers typically built their systems from the source. This continued with the vm370 followon FSVO this. IBM distributed service with

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: FSVO this. IBM distributed service with preassembled modules. Only if you had updates would the service process reassemble. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#84 a bit of hope? What was old is new again

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Where I read: ... For example, one thing I try to do is to have our IT infrastructure employees trained to code so that they can automate repetitive

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes: yet IBM never delivered a source code maintenance system. Something that practically everyone was in need of. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#84 a bit of hope? What was old is new again. science center did the multi-level cms update source

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2015-02-02 17:59, John McKown wrote: Long ago, 1980s, we used VM/CMS for program development. On identical hardware, it beat the dickens out of TSO/ISPF. I still have fond memories of XEDIT. Of course, ee ran MVS on a separate machine. We ran MVS under VM/SP1 for testing, and with shared

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread John McKown
Long ago, 1980s, we used VM/CMS for program development. On identical hardware, it beat the dickens out of TSO/ISPF. I still have fond memories of XEDIT. Of course, ee ran MVS on a separate machine. We ran MVS under VM/SP1 for testing, and with shared SPOOL to submit jobs to run on the production

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Ed Gould
So, it was IBM saying if you don't run VM, FY? I think the many MVS sites would take exception to that. From my perspective VM was OK some things but not for PRODUCTION. VM was a sand box so the real work was to be done on MVS. Ed On Feb 2, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes: So, it was IBM saying if you don't run VM, FY? I think the many MVS sites would take exception to that. From my perspective VM was OK some things but not for PRODUCTION. VM was a sand box so the real work was to be done on MVS. re:

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#84 a bit of hope? What was old is new again. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#86 a bit of hope? What was old is new again. part of customer facing issue was that in

a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread John McKown
I liked this article: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2014/12/how-today-s-young-it-talent-different-previous-generations But the author obviously only knows about the drag and drop generation of programmers and not us old buzzards. The author, a teacher, is praising his students who are

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Dale R. Smith
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:14:35 -0600, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: I liked this article: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2014/12/how-today-s-young-it-talent-different-previous-generations But the author obviously only knows about the drag and drop generation of

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:14:35 -0600, John McKown wrote: I liked this article: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2014/12/how-today-s-young-it-talent-different-previous-generations

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Where I read: ... For example, one thing I try to do is to have our IT infrastructure employees trained to code so that they can automate repetitive tasks. In contrast to the Enterprise mindset frequently

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Staller, Allan
We the willing, Are doing the impossible, For the ungrateful, We have done so much, For so long, With so little, For so little, We are now qualified to do anything, With Nothing, For Nothing! snip ...snippage Thou shalt find way to do more while spending even less money so that our budget may

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Dale R. Smith dale-sm...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:14:35 -0600, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: I liked this article:

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:14:35 -0600, John McKown wrote: I liked this article: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2014/12/how-today-s-young-it-talent-different-previous-generations Where I read: ... For example, one thing I try to do is to have our IT infrastructure employees trained