am, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> You’re the weakest link here. How can IBM guarantee 99.999 uptime for systems
> they don’t make or support? I’ve worked for numerous companies that didn’t
> have outages of the mainframe for
Nobody goes to prison should they lose a civil lawsuit. The auditing firm gave
their seal of approval.
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On Sunday, April 10, 2022, 12:18 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I knew a guy -- friend of a friend -- who spent a couple of years in a minimum
security Federal
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This is hilarious.
The datacenter is dead – at least according to FedEx, which announced plans to
close its
This is hilarious.
The datacenter is dead – at least according to FedEx, which announced plans to
close its server farms and transition completely to the cloud, where it hopes
to save an estimated $400 million annually.
The insinuation being the “cloud” will replace servers. When the reality
True. But that’s capitalism. Where money is worshipped and workers are
expendable. It’s time unions made a comeback.
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On Friday, July 8, 2022, 5:28 AM, Ronald Wells
<02ebc63ff5ef-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
And the winner is...top 1%
Initiators active and set up for correct class?
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On Saturday, July 2, 2022, 12:35 PM, Shaffer, Terri
<017d5f778222-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I was wondering if anyone can please point me into the right direction for why
my TWS scheduler stopped
German has 3 genders. Der, die, das. (Masculine, feminine, neuter) Plus, some
nouns you’d expect to be neuter are not. Der Wagon (car) for instance.
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On Friday, June 10, 2022, 10:36 AM, zMan wrote:
Glad to see this has stayed on topic. /s
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022
etz3
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It’s AT’s
I doubt IBM acted without the approval of AT
IBM rejected the decision and said it intends to appeal the ruling.
"This verdict is entirely unsupported by fact and law, and IBM intends to
pursue complete reversal on appeal," IBM said in an emailed statement. "IBM
acted in good faith in every
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, 10:55 AM, zMan wrote:
Um. AT's approval or otherwise isn't relevant. They're not a party to
this.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:41 AM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I doubt IBM acted without the
First off, I didn’t say YOU were a disgruntled ex IBM worker. Just that there
are a plethora of them. IBM was even sued by some over the years. Age
discrimination, if I’m not mistaken was a big reason. Which could explain why
so many here are anti IBM.
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That’s old. In April, the lawsuit was reinstated.
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On Saturday, June 4, 2022, 11:01 PM, Mike Schwab
wrote:
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Judge-tosses-IBM-s-fraud-claims-against-16464321.php
A fraud claim by IBM against Global Foundries was
LOLOLOLOL, you insulted me. And my logic and facts are spot on. You didn’t even
know what IBM’s ROE was. I suspect you don’t even understand ROE. Because you
only mentioned the stock price. Do you know the difference between growth &
value stocks? You routinely claim things I never said. I’ve
What’s hilarious is if you google disgruntled IBM employees, there’s a whole
group of ex IBMers who routinely bash IBM because IBM laid them off or cut
their benefits. Switching from pensions to 401k was a big cry for many who
worked there. My bet is many here are in that group. IT workers
ess than
credible.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 8:54 PM Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Tony thinks IBM is handing over 1.6 billion. Because the judge ordered it.
> In the article it states IBM is going to appeal. Which means they don’t pay
>
Funny nobody mentioned the reinstatement of the 2.5 billion IBM lawsuit against
GlobalFoundries.
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On Saturday, June 4, 2022, 10:33 PM, g...@gabegold.com
wrote:
OK, got it -- you're here to rant and insult. Good that it amuses you.
This is pretty far from
the HTTPS JCL from their
website, created a "server refused connection". I opened a call with shopZ
- will see.
Using Chrome - so THAT did not make a difference.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:20 AM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Switched to
Switched to Chrome from Firefox and deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com worked.
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On Thursday, June 16, 2022, 12:00 PM, Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I ordered COBOL 6.4 yesterday and tried downloading it this m
I ordered COBOL 6.4 yesterday and tried downloading it this morning and it
appears deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com is indeed down.
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On Thursday, June 16, 2022, 11:52 AM, Wendell Lovewell
<01e9c0ee0673-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I'm trying to download
key
4-, got it going, and allowed some other people to log in.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:31 AM Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Cloud - Something the mainframe has been doing for decades. We called it
outsourcing. GM ran their entire organization out of
Cloud - Something the mainframe has been doing for decades. We called it
outsourcing. GM ran their entire organization out of mainframes in Charlotte,
Dallas, & perhaps another in the 80’s. The internet just made it easier, and
less secure & reliable. Brought outsourcing to a wider audience.
On Friday, June 17th, 2022 at 7:15 PM, Ronald Wells
<02ebc63ff5ef-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Well put---thank you
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of
> Bill Johnson
>
> Sent: Fr
So if I get my banking transactions by Capital One APP via AWS, that’s cloud,
but if I get those same banking transactions via JP Morgan APP which acquires
the records via CICS transaction from DB2 that’s not cloud?
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On Friday, June 17, 2022, 12:56 PM, zMan
:43, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> What’s the difference between JPM’s mainframe and Capital One’s AWS? Other
> than one is fast, reliable, and secure and the other is not. Both can be
> located anywhere in the world and access
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On Friday, June 17, 2022, 1:47 PM, David Crayford wrote:
You may want to change banks
https://www.paymentsjournal.com/go-big-or-go-home-jpm-will-spend-up-to-12b-to-get-to-the-cloud/amp/
> On 18 Jun 2022, at 01:43, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-d
:22 PM, zMan wrote:
Correct. App <> cloud.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 1:04 PM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> So if I get my banking transactions by Capital One APP via AWS, that’s
> cloud, but if I get those same banking transactions via J
stuff in AWS. Viewed through that lens, the question doesn't
even make sense: "Is this thing that IS in the cloud different from this
other thing that's not in the cloud?" Well, yes.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 1:30 PM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote
:
On 18/06/2022 2:02 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Don’t really care. I’ll be retired soon. The first time it gets hacked, and
> it will, Jamie will be facing lawsuits that will make the Capital One payout
> look like pocket change.
JP Morgan Chase already run significant workloads on multi-c
can be infinite.
I get hundreds of spam emails on Yahoo daily. But, it’s not my main email
service. It’s disposable. No fear whatsoever.
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On Friday, June 17, 2022, 2:28 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 18/06/2022 2:20 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Here you go. Mainframe j
://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Modernize Mainframe
AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and
AWS
Moshix signed up for an AWS instance, loaded up Hercules and Turnkey
4-, got it going, and allowed some other people to log in.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:31 AM Bill Johnson
<0047540
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Most mainframes
Aren’t you the guy who thought Pharmacies weren’t open 24 by 7? Metz is right,
if you think the mainframe is a batch machine, you’ve got zero credibility.
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On Sunday, June 19, 2022, 4:51 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 20/06/2022 4:21 am, Bill Johnson wrote
of the mainframe is frozen
in time. If you’re not at the coalface you loose touch.
> On 20 Jun 2022, at 8:19 am, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Aren’t you the guy who thought Pharmacies weren’t open 24 by 7? Metz is
> right, if yo
is frozen
in time. If you’re not at the coalface you loose touch.
> On 20 Jun 2022, at 8:19 am, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Aren’t you the guy who thought Pharmacies weren’t open 24 by 7? Metz is
> right, if you think the
ten do these efforts end up
>> succeeding?
>>
>>
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
>> Mike Schwab
>> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:04 AM
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: Re
Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Sent: Monday, June 20, 2022 7:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Modernize
That’s beautiful. And a pet peeve of mine.
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On Monday, June 20, 2022, 1:47 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 at 13:34, David Crayford wrote:
>
> I could care less about Python.
Could you care a lot less, or just a little bit less? There is surely
___
>
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
> Mike Schwab
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:04 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and
> AWS
>
> Moshix signed up for an AWS i
Not in my voracious reading.
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On Sunday, June 19, 2022, 11:11 AM, Tom Brennan
wrote:
That's the most realistic assessment I've seen.
On 6/18/2022 11:36 PM, David Crayford wrote:
> It's not just about fixing broken code. If you read the ING CIO's
> remarks
Fintech is causing massive losses.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/40236/fintech-cheerleader-tiger-global-faces-massive-losses
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On Sunday, June 19, 2022, 11:11 AM, Tom Brennan
wrote:
That's the most realistic assessment I've seen.
On 6/18/2022 11:36
Bingo. Exactly what I meant. We ran batch and still were available 24 by 7.
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On Sunday, June 19, 2022, 12:04 PM, Don Leahy wrote:
Running batch does not preclude 24x7 online availability.
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 09:44 Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-r
gt; Subject: Re: Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and
> AWS
>
> Moshix signed up for an AWS instance, loaded up Hercules and Turnkey
> 4-, got it going, and allowed some other people to log in.
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:31 AM Bill Johnson
>
ing?
>
>
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
> Mike Schwab
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:04 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and
> AWS
>
>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:04 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and
> AWS
>
> Moshix signed up for an AWS instance, loaded up Hercules and Turnkey
> 4-, got it going, and allowed some other people to l
Exactly. I’m way more concerned with the collusion of 2 software vendors
agreeing not to cannibalize the others business.
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, 12:12 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I am not taking pro- or "bashing" sides here. How can any outsourcer agree not
LOLOLOLOL yeah, you’re a critical thinking master. Anyone with Legal experience
(me) knows this will be overturned.
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, 12:59 PM, zMan wrote:
IBM has supported *me *indirectly since before I was born. Bill mistakes
critical thinking for
Saying it will or won’t be overturned is just as silly as insinuating IBM will
now hand over 1.6 billion at this stage of the proceedings. Yet, the headline
states and the OP assumes exactly that. Gleefully I might add.
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, 3:09 PM, Tony
I don't worship anyone or anything. It sets you up for disappointment. What
I've said about IBM is this.
1. They've survived 111 years in a industry that spits out companies like a
baseball player chewing tobacco. Fact.
2. They lead the world in patents. Almost every year. Fact.
3. Their major
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I don't worship anyone or anything
Are you the TRON guy? If so, everyone needs to google you.
On Monday, June 6, 2022, 10:18:30 AM EDT, Jay Maynard
wrote:
You've made your position abundantly clear, Bill.
Now drop it.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 9:14 AM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
on behalf of
Bill Johnson [0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 10:25 AM
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LOL, and you people said I can't read. I actually said OPINION for 5.
On Monday, June 6, 2022, 10:23:26 AM EDT,
And they’re appealing. So no payment will be made yet. Do you not understand
how courts work?
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, 5:09 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 at 15:49, Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
I read just fine. There’s more than just the headline.
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, 6:58 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 at 17:11, Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> And they’re appealing. So no payment
Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
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I read
ring of misery. -Churchill */
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Explain it to me Bob. I gotta hear this.
--- On Friday, June 3, 2022, 8:02 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
No, Bill, you don't, or at least you didn't in
On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 at 15:49, Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Saying it will or won’t be overturned is just as silly as insinuating IBM
> will now hand over 1.6 billion at this stage of the proceedings. Yet, the
> headline states and the
uot;ordered" is
not equivalent to the act of actually distributing the funds
> -Original Message-
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> Behalf Of Bill Johnson
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2022 7:04 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC
ubject: Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72
hours to resolve"
Makes me wonder how old the system is...state governments are notorious for
running hardware long past its useful life. If this was ESCON, life might get
interesting.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022
A spokesperson from Gov. Justice’s administration says that the cause of the
mainframe outage was a physical hardware failure and not the result of any
outside attack. The spokesperson tells 13 News that it was a failure of a fiber
card. Parts had to be overnighted, and technicians had to fly
Bingo
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On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 3:04 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Rex Pommier wrote:
>"move it to the cloud and that'll fix all our problems."
>Maybe, just maybe, if your government would have allowed your IT department
the resources to maintain your
It amazes me how little most laypeople know about IT and how easily they are
brainwashed into believing the cloud will solve everything. Oh, and how little
they’re willing to spend. Except for their cinnamon dolce latte.
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On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 2:43 PM,
I worked for a major university in NE Ohio that had a written DR plan that
didn’t include an actual offsite contract/plan to bring up a usable mainframe
during an actual disaster. Because of cost. That was mid 90’s and they no
longer have a mainframe. I think it was pretty common back then. It
Joined the retirement club myself yesterday. Too many bucket list things to
accomplish.
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On Monday, August 1, 2022, 8:11 PM, John McKown
wrote:
Forgot to mention, I'll be 70 & I'm not in good health (dialysis), so I'm
retiring and just going to stay home
The mainframe workload continues to increase and will continue to increase for
decades.
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On Sunday, August 21, 2022, 5:29 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
You would offload a lot of the (expensive) Z cycles to the GPU, right?
Still, I agree, hard for me to see this
The Control suite of products is quite good. D, M, O, IOA, etc.
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On Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 11:19 AM, Carmen Vitullo
wrote:
BMC's CONTROL-D IIRC, there's a CONTROL Suite that will / can replace
all of the products
they work real well
Carmen
On
Does Everything But Eat is what we called it.
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 9:36 AM, ITschak Mugzach
wrote:
I don't have this module installed, but wonder if it will work on a Z/OS
system if it was installed.
ITschak Mugzach
*|** IronSphere Platform* *|*
.co.il **|*
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:41 PM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Why not try it if you have the module available?
>
>
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>
>
> On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 10:04 AM, Itschak Mugzac
Why not try it if you have the module available?
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 10:04 AM, Itschak Mugzach
<0305158ad67d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
My question was "will it run on z/os"?...
בתאריך יום ג׳, 27 בספט׳ 2022 ב-16:57
That’s not going to sit well with the “mainframe is dying” crowd. It will still
be the best platform in the world long after most of us have retired.
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On Thursday, October 20, 2022, 4:30 PM, Mark Regan wrote:
, 2022, 5:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:54:31 +, Bill Johnson wrote:
>That’s not going to sit well with the “mainframe is dying” crowd. It will
>still be the best platform in the world long after most of us
You mean the cloud isn’t the panacea promised?
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On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 7:37 PM, Enzo D'Amato
<042f4b016b5a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I saw this article, and I thought that the people here might find this
interesting.
Is IEBUPDTE still around? I know it could change strings but had limits
regarding record length.
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On Monday, October 17, 2022, 2:24 PM, Steve Beaver
wrote:
A million years ago the was an IBM Batch Utility to change strings
In a PDS.
Does anyone remember
I’m shocked the IBM haters haven’t mentioned IBM’s announcement today regarding
offloading 16 billion in pension liabilities.
https://www.pionline.com/pension-risk-transfer/ibm-offloads-16-billion-pension-liabilities-annuity-purchases
who is in that business.
Charles
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Of Bill Johnson
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Subject: IBM pension 16 billion offloaded.
I’m shocked the IBM ha
AIG was so bad in 2007-08 the government had to bail them out to the tune of 85
billion and 80% government ownership. And they were America’s largest insurer.
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On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 5:47 PM, Tony Harminc
wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sept 2022 at 17:02,
a defined benefit plan. There is no up potential, and relatively little down
potential. (Yes, everything comes with some risk.)
Charles
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Of Bill Johnson
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o:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Bill Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 2:51 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM pension 16 billion offloaded.
No it isn’t just a financial thing. They transferred the money & liabilities to
a firm that thinks it can turn a profit on
I had a class on medical terminology when I worked at a hospital. No need to
learn Latin. While Latin might make some feel superior, learning Spanish or
Chinese would probably be far more useful. Most Americans are pathetic,
unilingual speakers, while most of the world is multilingual. Having
Vade vilis.
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On Sunday, September 18, 2022, 8:43 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 19:00, Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I had a class on medical terminology when I worked at a hospital. No need
&
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
Because Bama didn’t get in the college football playoffs. And their nemesis
Georgia won!
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On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 11:36 AM, David Cole wrote:
Hmmm. When I go to
"listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind2301=IBM-MAIN&", I see my post as
well as responses from
kicked out of the preferred vendor program for violating other agreements
to not try and migrate people off the mainframe.
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On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 1:08 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 19:47, Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-r
Reverse engineering to get the source code is illegal.
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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 11:23 AM, Joe Monk wrote:
Not sure that this is a winnable lawsuit though.
The architecture of a file (and the data therein) that is only needed to
run a product is not
rpose of maximizing executive bonus
compensation."
On 1/26/2023 1:37 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Pretty clear.
> Due to the way complex securities litigation works, the firm representing the
> largest group of investors – Ironworkers Local 580 Joint Fund – took over the
> handling of the
rits of the lawsuits because none of us is close
enough to know what's really happening, but if the lawsuits move forward and
are proven in court, some big blue execs should be wearing orange.
Rex
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Then I wonder why they used the word "similar" in the article and not "same".
On 1/26/2023 12:31 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Same lawsuit refiled. Did you read the en
Same lawsuit refiled. Did you read the entire article?
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On Thursday, January 26, 2023, 3:19 PM, zMan wrote:
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud
sales
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/18/ibm_sued_securities_fraud/
What
the charges could be
refiled.
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On Thursday, January 26, 2023, 4:12 PM, Tom Brennan
wrote:
Then I wonder why they used the word "similar" in the article and not
"same".
On 1/26/2023 12:31 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Same lawsuit refiled.
All the cloud clowns aren’t going to be happy. Most of them were the same
people who said banks were being replaced by internet banks and one had 40
million accounts. The same people didn’t think pharmacies were open 24 by 7. (I
know not ALL) Those same people have never seen interest rates
I have to agree with this. Once I had my JCL created for just about any upgrade
task, it was simple to make small changes to rerun the same process for the
next upgrade. That goes for zOS, DB2, CICS, IMS, MQ, and most third party
software.
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On Monday, March 6,
I find it disingenuous when someone doesn’t mention the antitrust lawsuit filed
against IBM in 1969 and dropped in 1982.
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/corporate-monopolies/government_ibm.html
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On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:15 PM,
Google has its own chatbot. Still, chatbots are years away from reliable use.
MSFT’s has been shown to be somewhat unreliable.
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On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 5:00 PM, David Crayford
wrote:
IBM appears to have returned to its strength of conducting top-class
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If you had invested 10,000 in Tesla 2 years ago, you’d now have 5,000. If you
bought bitcoin in 2021, you lost half. If you purchased GM stock in 2006, you
lost it all. If you bought a real bank like JPM in 2013, you tripled your
money. Most of the “high growth” stocks that Silicon Valley has
We used Cyberark at a former employer. Starting around 2014 or 15. Our security
department, none of whom had mainframe experience, chose it to solve a problem
we didn’t have. I’m pretty sure the head of security read about it on a flight.
Or an auditor did. It slows down everything on the MF.
de 1 mistake. The
internet bubble. But, recovered it all back and then some.
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On Friday, April 7, 2023, 9:48 AM, Joe Monk wrote:
"I know more about banking than you know it alls."
You dont know what you dont know.
Joe
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: Friday, April 7, 2023 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value]
"Seldom right, but never uncertain." Frank Reagan.
Describing you, I'd venture
Doug Fuerst
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My bet is you watch Fox.
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On Friday, April 7, 2023, 2:14 PM, Doug wrote:
"Seldom right, but never uncertain." Frank Reagan.
Describing you, I'd venture
Doug Fuerst
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I’m well aware when I don’t know something. Please list the things I’ve stated
that weren’t true.
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On Friday, April 7, 2023, 11:28 PM, Frank Swarbrick
wrote:
The first one is iffy, but the second one can be absolutely true. It's best to
at least know when
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