Watson - was: IBM does what IBM does best

2017-11-29 Thread Mike Beer
> WATSON , we don’t know too much [...] how easily it is to use as a > programmer that is. Our company (mindcoa.ch) created a solution based on Watson APIs. We participated in the global IBM Watson Build contest and were able to demonstrate a working Prototype within a very short time. It is

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/29/2017 11:45 PM, Edward Gould wrote: But getting back to WATSON , we don’t know too much on how it works and how easily it is to use as a programmer that is. "42" -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of ske

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Gould
> On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > On 11/29/2017 2:56 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >>> IBM is going to produce the first marketable Quantum Computer. >> And who is going to buy it? The people interesting in WATSON … maybe. There >> is blood in the water. > > Famously, Thomas J.

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Gould
> On Nov 29, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > > prior to gov. legal action, IBM steep educational discount and there was > IBM mainframes in lots of universities ... then with the 23June1969 > unbundling announcement ... those educational discounts went away. > past posts/refs > htt

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/29/2017 7:42 PM, John McKown wrote: I have trouble trying to figure out how it is going to allow payroll to run more efficiently Here's a really good summary of QC /qua/ information science, from IBM pages, of course. https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/tutorial?sectionId=fu

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/29/2017 10:44 PM, Edward Finnell wrote: Quantum Computing is available now via IBM's cloud. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/49661.wss Yes, it's lots of fun. Log in, it's free. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/29/2017 7:42 PM, John McKown wrote: ​Do you have any_good_ web sites? I find it interesting, but it appears mainly to address highly parallel processing. I have trouble trying to figure out how it is going to allow payroll to run more efficiently (be that faster or cheaper). I can see it d

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Finnell
Quantum Computing is available now via IBM's cloud.   https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/49661.wss     In a message dated 11/29/2017 8:34:53 PM Central Standard Time, j...@well.com writes:   You should take a look at Quantum Computing before you dismiss it. -

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread David Crayford
On 30/11/2017 10:33 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: On 11/29/2017 2:56 PM, Edward Gould wrote: IBM is going to produce the first marketable Quantum Computer. And who is going to buy it? The people interesting in WATSON … maybe. There is blood in the water. Famously, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. said around

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > On 11/29/2017 3:13 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> And so now IBM is pushing Cognitive computing, and talking about Quantum >> computing. >> > > > All those things you name were steps along the road. > > > You should take a look at Quantum Co

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Jim Mulder wrote: > While there are also other advantages to CSVDYLPA (like creating a CDE, > so that SLIP and IPCS can find the module by name), we likely would > consider it incompatible to change the documented meaning of the > LOADTOGLOBAL option on the IEFS

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/29/2017 3:13 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: And so now IBM is pushing Cognitive computing, and talking about Quantum computing. All those things you name were steps along the road. You should take a look at Quantum Computing before you dismiss it. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more t

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/29/2017 2:56 PM, Edward Gould wrote: IBM is going to produce the first marketable Quantum Computer. And who is going to buy it? The people interesting in WATSON … maybe. There is blood in the water. Famously, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. said around 1950 "Nobody's going to buy computers. The

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-29 Thread David Crayford
On 30/11/2017 9:11 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: I've never heard of Kotlin, but it seems to me that Android would be better off supporting Swift before it goes another direction. Or does it already support Swift? The three supported programming languages on Android are Java, Kotlin and C/C++

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-29 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I've never heard of Kotlin, but it seems to me that Android would be better off supporting Swift before it goes another direction. Or does it already support Swift? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 201

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread Jim Mulder
While there are also other advantages to CSVDYLPA (like creating a CDE, so that SLIP and IPCS can find the module by name), we likely would consider it incompatible to change the documented meaning of the LOADTOGLOBAL option on the IEFSSIVT macro. Adding a new IEFSSIVT option to use CSVDYLPA

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
edgould1...@comcast.net (Edward Gould) writes: > The latest buzz word is education on the computer. IBM tried that 40 > years ago and it was an abysmal failure. Pretty soon they are going to > make a pizza making MF. Now, how do you deliver a 20 ton computer > with a flat top to a neighborhood tha

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

2017-11-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 11/29/2017 11:41 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:   ERROR DESCRIPTION:   We just installed and deployed PCOMM 13.0. It was released   November 9, 2017.   The "about" screen shows 20171108 S - 13.0.0.0   The DEL key just beeps. Doesn't delete *any* characters! Love the use of "We" in the error

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Gould
> On Nov 29, 2017, at 4:13 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > Quantum computing. Cognitive computing. > > Back in 1990-95, as I recall, IBM had KT, ESE, TIRS, and IBM Prolog for 370 > (which ran on VM and MVS). > > How many here know what any of the above products were? > > Anybody ever have a cop

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Steve Thompson
Quantum computing. Cognitive computing. Back in 1990-95, as I recall, IBM had KT, ESE, TIRS, and IBM Prolog for 370 (which ran on VM and MVS). How many here know what any of the above products were? Anybody ever have a copy to work with or know of any shop that had one of those products in p

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Gould
> On Nov 28, 2017, at 7:57 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > > > The first-ever layoffs that inaugurated the Gerstner era led to a complete > renaissance at IBM that endured up to and through the Great Recession. > > Maybe we're on the dawn of a new era. IBM is shedding the 20th century and > ste

Re: DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
All; F RESOLVER,REFRESH and finding all the locations they had the IP addresses defined, finally cleared the issue. Thank you all. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com

Re: Contact data for Maynard, Shedlock and Wathen?

2017-11-29 Thread Mike Schwab
https://twitter.com/tronguy?lang=en for Jay Menard. Has ignored Hercules inquiries in the past. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Does anyone have current e-mail addresses for George Shedlock, Jay Maynard or > Gene Wathen? Thanks. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > ht

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

2017-11-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:04:08 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 11/22/2017 7:27 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> >> I'll let you know when I get a real APAR number (or whatever passes >> for an APAR in this "loosy goosey" off-platform DevOps programming >> world...) > >   APAR Identifier .. IT23290  Last

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

2017-11-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 11/22/2017 7:27 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: I'll let you know when I get a real APAR number (or whatever passes for an APAR in this "loosy goosey" off-platform DevOps programming world...)   APAR Identifier .. IT23290  Last Changed 17/11/27   PCOM: 3270 DELETE KEY DOES NOT WORK W

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Jim Mulder wrote: > IEFSSVT was created in MVS/ESA SP5.2.0, before the existence of > CSVDYLPA, which was created in OS/390 2.4. > ​That makes sense. And, since it works well, there's never been any real need to update the internals. Hum, I wonder if someone

Re: Ouch your own self...Apple Mac bug

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Finnell
One of the Tech reporters on Bloomberg was saying he was using apple.bugreporter.com and it was yanked to work on the 'root' problem. I don't have access but my nephew in Atlanta does. He says most of the ones they've seen were in power management and nasty Apps for IOS.     In a message dated 11

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread Jim Mulder
IEFSSVT was created in MVS/ESA SP5.2.0, before the existence of CSVDYLPA, which was created in OS/390 2.4. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY John McKown wrote on 11/29/2017 11:50:46 AM: > I'm guessing that LOADTOGLOBAL literally means "LOAD

Re: DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
did you refresh or recycle the resolver ? Carmen - Original Message - From: "Bill Bishop (TMNA)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:04:44 AM Subject: DNS issue All; The windows group has decommissioned and removed a DNS server that I had in my T

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
Is the HLQ for the product libraries in a USERCAT or the MasterCAT For example, I only have SYS1.datasets cataloged in the master cat that are needed to IPL the system. All of my other products are in a user cat. For example a product from Computer Associates - CA - called Vantage has an HLQ of

Re: Contact data for Maynard, Shedlock and Wathen?

2017-11-29 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Last I saw of Maynard, he was stuck inside of a computer trying to avoid the Grid Bugs. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: C

Contact data for Maynard, Shedlock and Wathen?

2017-11-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
Does anyone have current e-mail addresses for George Shedlock, Jay Maynard or Gene Wathen? Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Allan Staller
F RESOLVER,REFRESH -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Bishop (TMNA) Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DNS issue All; The windows group has decommissioned and removed a

Re: DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Steve Horein
It looks like "REFRESH" may be the way to go: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.halu101/resolvecmd.htm On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Bill Bishop (TMNA) wrote: > All; > > The windows group has decommissioned and removed a DNS server that I had > in my

Re: CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread Charles Mills
Not super familiar with SSI but use CSVDYLPA. Lots of options, but I can tell you yes, potentially a module added with CSVDYLPA can survive the termination of the issuer of the macro. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Be

Re: Ouch your own self...Apple Mac bug

2017-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:12:03 -0500, Edward Finnell wrote: >https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/11/28/apple-macos-high-sierra-guilty-of-really-stupid-password-bug/#421b3cd11d57 >  >Yowee, anybody, anywhere can get your stuff. > Did I hear something similar about iOS, or was I just mis

DNS issue

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
All; The windows group has decommissioned and removed a DNS server that I had in my TCPDATA member. I have updated the member and recycled TCPIP, but I am still having tasks try to resolve to it. My question is "Do I need to bounce RESOLVER also, and if so, is it just a P RESOLVER and S RESOL

Re: IEFSSIVT LOADTOGLOBAL question (Share SSI presentation 2015)

2017-11-29 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:24 AM, John McKown wrote: > I picked up a Share presentation > > On page 14, it has a red highlight to use LOADTOGLOBAL if & only if you > can guarantee that the subsystem address space "can never terminate". The > reason is not explained and I'm wondering why. I am gue

Re: Consolidate Consoles

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
CA also has a product call Automation Point. It does cost, not sure if it is beyond your budget or not. It does take all console traffic and displays it on a single screen. It uses a server to host the base product and display the message traffic. It can provide remote access to the server so

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
That depends on how you cataloged them. But I suspect that the the OP is not using SYMBOLICRELATE. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 LinkedIn as sme...@gmu.edu From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of retired mainframer

CSVDYLPA ADD question.

2017-11-29 Thread John McKown
I'm looking at example #1 here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieaa100/iea3a1_Description18.htm#dylpaxm What I'm thinking of is in regards to a subsystem (SSI) initialization which occurs after IPL (i.e. not via the IEFSSNnn member of PARMLIB). The ab

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread retired mainframer
If you copied the product datasets from a SYSA volume to a SYSB volume and then attempt to use the SYSA catalog to access them from SYSB, you will end up accessing the datasets on the SYSA volume. Since you went through the effort to copy them, I assume this is not desirable. Without specifyin

IEFSSIVT LOADTOGLOBAL question (Share SSI presentation 2015)

2017-11-29 Thread John McKown
I picked up a Share presentation On page 14, it has a red highlight to use LOADTOGLOBAL if & only if you can guarantee that the subsystem address space "can never terminate". The reason is not explained and I'm wondering why. I am guessing that the reason is that it uses some facility which result

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread Giovanni Bozzetti
Well I can see some problems here 1 - You are talking about copy VOLUME, are the volumes shared between SYSA and SYSB? 2 - Any z/OS normally has one Master catalog and many user catalog as you have products or collection of datasets. 2- Master catalog only can have SYS1 and system dataset is not

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:26:41 -0500, johnnydeep san wrote: >Lizette, I'm trying this in sanbox where i will going to run my product >which was installed already in SYSA , i would like to use all the product >dataset's in SYSB for testing .I alredy >transferred VOLUME(contain all product dataset)

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread johnnydeep san
Thanks, Tom and Lizette for your quick response . Lizette, I'm trying this in sanbox where i will going to run my product which was installed already in SYSA , i would like to use all the product dataset's in SYSB for testing .I alredy transferred VOLUME(contain all product dataset) to sysB

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
What problem are you trying to solve? Creating an alt master cat and importing it to a new system may only fix some of your issues. Consider the master catalog like the ROOT in Unix. It controls where things can be found in z/OS. It is the key to the IPL Process. If anything is not correct

Re: How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:15:30 -0500, johnnydeep san wrote: >Please >guide me , how to use this alternate master catalog of SYSA as a >usercatalog in another system SYSB? . since both are different system , >Will import catalog works ?. Import connect -- Tom Marchant -

How to use master catalog as user catalog in another system

2017-11-29 Thread johnnydeep san
Hi Team, As a newbie for mainframe, i may ask simple question but i couldn't track right answer in google :) . I have create alternate master catalog on volume ALTVOL1 on SYSA. Please guide me , how to use this alternate master catalog of SYSA as a usercatalog in another system SYSB? . since b

Re: DB2 & CICS Training

2017-11-29 Thread Giles Newson
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Ouch your own self...Apple Mac bug

2017-11-29 Thread Edward Finnell
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/11/28/apple-macos-high-sierra-guilty-of-really-stupid-password-bug/#421b3cd11d57   Yowee, anybody, anywhere can get your stuff. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: DB2 & CICS Training

2017-11-29 Thread venkat kulkarni
Please provide website detail and contact email address to communicate further. Regards Venkat On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 1:30 PM, TSDunlap wrote: > On 11/25/2017 1:04 AM, venkat kulkarni wrote: > >> Hello Group, >> >> Do we have any training available on DB2 and CICS administration. I tried >> ta

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 29/11/2017 11:59 AM, Anthony Thompson wrote: http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/watsonwalker/ww/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/28073651/Spark-and-SMF.pdf I have seen various presentations. My experience has been that SQL is very limiting when it comes to SMF reports. Most of the reports I do woul

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 29/11/2017 08:40 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Anyway, I get your point, that the P word might have caused some anxiety in the past. It the past (and to some diminishing extent now) it meant throwing more CPU at a problem to solve it. When one is focused on resource efficiency and scalability the

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
Anthony Thompson wrote: >Timothy Sipples may have more to add. I do, a little. First of all, if IBM Program Number 5655-AAB (IBM z/OS Platform for Apache Spark) is still available from IBM ShopZ, you might as well order it, now. There's no additional charge for that program number. But if it's st

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
Andrew Rowley wrote: >IBM were saying how great it was at parallelizing work, however that >is a bit of a red flag for me. OK, but one must mark such instincts to market. IBM introduced zAAPs just over 13 years ago, and one site quickly put that technology into production on September 1, 2004. In

Re: OS/390 2.5

2017-11-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
Mike Schwab wrote: >z13 has 31 bit mode. z14 IPLs in 64 bit mode and cannot run 31 bit >Operating systems, z/OS 2.2 SA-ICKDSF, etc. Requires z/OS 2.3 >SA-ICKDSF. These points really aren't enough to know whether OS/390 2.5 will IPL and run on a z13 or z13s machine. "No" would be my educated gues