?
If this is not the right place to ask, feel free to steer me somewhere else,
with or without derisive flames as it suits you :). I'm reading documentation,
but it's also nice to get confirmation from experienced admins, especially in a
subject with so many corners and pitfalls.
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ers are
slightly more work but For multiple contributors and especially for multiple
iterations they add a great deal to clarity; see below.
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rbrid...@infosecinc.com
/* Law #31 of combat operations: If the enemy is within range, so are
Never heard of CA-MSM, but I'll look into it. (I've been in contact with Bob
Boerum at CA, but he's never mentioned it.)
We've been using the SMP/E panels, and, as you say, letting them construct the
JCL.
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, but doesn't add them to the list. Have I misunderstood
something? I'm loathe to believe the documentation is flat wrong.
If you're getting ready to send rushed messages saying "DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL
YOU'VE CHECKED...", relax; we're planning to go slow.
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Carmen, what do you mean by "not all PTFs will apply or restore"? If you mean
that there's a PTF that cannot be applied, how then is it a PTF? And if you
can APPLY it but not RESTORE...I'm incredulous. Can you expand on that?
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the documentation.
You probably won't hear many more questions from me for a while, therefore,
but I'm certain to be back eventually.
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rbrid...@infosecinc.com
/* A fanatic is someone who does what he knows God would do if God knew
It wrapped at my end, but I don't see the problem; if I want to follow the
link I'll just reässemble it.
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rbrid...@infosecinc.com
/* Think hard about whether a voice-enabled device is right for you. That
includes products from Amazon
anything, but can you
provide some background? I don't know what I would see in an ABMLISTing that
would tell me anything I need to know about a CSI.
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/* Paramedic Rule #2: All bleeding stopseventually. -from
. But apparently not.
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/* Nearly all men can stand adversity. If you want to test a man's character,
give him power. -Abraham Lincoln */
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ablish how effective
might be the new version of John the Ripper.
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/* Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. -Ira
Gassen */
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situation
most ardently to be avoided :). The lesson I take from this, and pass on to
my clients, is that read access to the security database is a huge exposure
and in most cases - that is, for most user IDs - completely unnecessary.
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/* r
' life it was essentially a
one-operator OS; whatever you did to Windows was just you, not (usually)
someone reaching in from outside.
Then, too, it took a while for MS to get religion about security.
But first and foremost, IMVHO, it's that MVS has been around so much longer.
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claiming expertise in the subject.
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/* If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now. */
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of ITschak
created. Using a standalone PC they cracked about 30 000
passwords (out of 120 000 on Applicat’s database) in 'a couple of days'."
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/* If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now. */
-Original Me
figuring out Colossal Cave's "magic mode"
before I left there for another job. It's primarily by remembering those days
that I came to understand why MVS users nowadays need special authority to
create a program dump.
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/* A fanatic
Yeah, about that: What ~is~ a "controled program"? I noticed that
qualification, but my background is apps development and I'm woefully
ignorant in spots.
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/* Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a g
the number of systems that are secured.
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/* Unspecified error; smash forehead on keyboard to continue. */
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Nightwatch RenBand
Sent
m all to have this feature turned on, that is, they're controling access
to dumps.
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/* If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now.
*/
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essing. I was not an inveterate MS-basher, but
I nearly became one for a while. Then they finally began to see the light -
~very~ late, in my opinion, but better late than never.
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/* I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap.
, the original stolen ID had read access to the RACF
database. The hackers downloaded the database, then applied a dictionary
attack to it at their leisure, thus getting thousands of passwords not only
in that LPAR but in another one visited by the same users.
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to log on to TSO, could I still submit a batch job somehow?
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/* You know you've had too much coffee when
Juan Valdez names his donkey after you.
You've worn out the handle on your favorite coffee mug.
Your eyes stay
o have TSO and/or a UID.
I don't know much about SSH or Telnet - hardly anything about them, in fact.
Is it worth asking for details?
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/* Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back
to your work you
Ok, but the only way to submit a job via SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR) is to have TSO in
the first place, right? What I'm asking is how users might submit batch who
~don't~ have TSO.
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/* In an emergency, a drawstring from a parka hood can be used
and money
on fixing the problem. Also I should understand the method pretty
thoroughly myself, lest I be reduced under cross-examination to "gee, I
heard there was a way using a pin-wire flummox, but I'm not sure how that
works..."
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if some combination of moves make it possible, how is it possible to
do it "carelessly"?
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/* Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but
still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon
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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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 had any illusions
to prevent long indented If blocks; multiple ITERATES are much
easier to debug.
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/* Three people may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Poor Richard */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN
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 must think it i
ot;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's supposed to explain it. But I don't get i
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 Boolean operators.
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/* Good teachin
ed 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 */
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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 thing you have to do when it ought to be done w
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 is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the ph
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 professor
(1912
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. */
-Origin
dimentary PowerShell. It's a
~big~ world out there, and so far I'm still having fun.
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/* If you don't like my bumper stickers, vote liberal and have them outlawed! */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-
I've never used the COMPARE command. (Never used MACRO_MSG, either.) What
message were you expecting from COMPARE?
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/* By 2005 or so, it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy
has been no greater than the fax machine's
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.
---
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d 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 became a fashionable
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-
From: IBM Mainframe
s. 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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/* Th
ns-global-clock/384355/
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/* Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. -from
_Calvin & Hobbes_ */
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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 Mainframe Discu
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, then Mom will take
ling 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 taped to a departed IS manager's
keyboard */
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainf
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
(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 are.
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reate 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 the
evil that is still l
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 reason wh
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,
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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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?
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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 List
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 interest in seeing my
member 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 when they do not deserve it. -Harold
, ok, that'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 IF construct! Sure,
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. */
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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 you need
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 */
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From
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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/* Another reason why creative
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
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 more foolish
than
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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o-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 know
it?"
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 spoiled
us. When he makes the world too hot for us
etting 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 universe is fu
e 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? */
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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
~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 feel like a nut. After a day
anguage 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 of life's sensational
ntial 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; it is for the
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
wrong?
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 worth.
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de 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 sleep on the edge of a sword, but
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 from reading the
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 */
-Original Message
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 "
ested 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 pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -Voltaire */
-
, 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-
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t;, 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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/* D'you call life a bad
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 anger and gr
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-
From:
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 and
their parents continu
if fmac then address ISREDIT
else arg args
"Too often you find yourself coding..." repetitive stuff? Gil, as much as you
write, you don't have a skeleton member with lots of oft-used code in it?
Sure, you d
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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/* The cities are for money but the high-up hills
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).
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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 "race condition"?
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/* For Sale: Parachute. Only used on
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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/* He that can have patience can have what he will. -Po
lient'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 lot of sense to me when I was 16 years ol
hen 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 */
-Original Message-
From:
utting 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 of Christianity is a Christian, the n
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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ominations, 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 required. Is there any OO language like
Sure, they would. But when ~I~ say it, it's true.
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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
/* One of the quickest ways I've found to look foolish is to state positively
what God will not do. -Bob Bridges */
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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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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
/* If you're not failing when you train or test your security, you're
presentation.
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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
/* 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 Lewis */
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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
The past, yes, obviously. Also obviously: Not so very dead.
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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
/* If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. -Geoge S
Patton */
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se? 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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nobleness. -Poor Richard */
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