IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day
Due to New Hardware
By Aaron Boyd and Frank Konkel
April 19, 2018 06:02 PM
https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/
Congress and watchdogs have been warning the IRS to upgrade
Dont sys admins usually write a shell script that sets premissions with chmod
or something like that ?
Do you guys have a guy who is good with shell scripts ?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Larre Shiller
Sent:
When I have this problem I write the
big DD to a file with a large space
allocation...
Is that an option in your situation ?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Allan Staller
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2019 9:56 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject:
Didnt they stop using the first 3 digits to
indicate the location of the person getting
the SSN a while back ?
If we run out we could just start using
alpha characters in with the numeric :-)
How about base 64 SSN numbers ? :-)
(my opinion only not my employers)
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Im sorry I was joking about AWK and especially SED
thought there are people who would do it :-)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:06 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: COBOL ? Re:
Why not just write a small program ?
COBOL ?
AWK ? :-)
SED :-)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Scott Barry
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 6:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: SORT selection question
With
Once I learned of the IF/THEN statements for
JCL I never used COND= again. IF/THEN is much
easier to use and to explain to new people.
I have seen many people code COND statements
incorrectly because they did not acually
understand how they worked.
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From: IBM
Philip Young
“Soldier of Fortran”
Mainframe hacker videos from 6 years ago :-(
https://youtu.be/Xfl4spvM5DI
https://youtu.be/vyHAqxCkf-k
There are other Def con etc mainframe hacker
videos out there ...
Kinda makes me nervous...
Some goverment agencies are replacing
their mainframe COBOL with java.
I dont see a payoff. I think this is
driven by contracting companies who
will make money off the conversion and
managers who do not know anything about
programming languages but read somewhere
that COBOL is out of date.
Many
Back in the late 90s whenever I got a
telemarketing call I used to try to
convince the caller to go get trained
for some kind of computer job. I used
to tell them how the job market was
great due to the Y2K problem. If nothing
else I kept them on the phone for a longer
time so that they werent
Id rather have easy access to AWK than python :-)
On the zos side without any USS involvement..
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Seymour J Metz
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 10:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Top 8
Of
Nash, Jonathan S.
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 10:28 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS
Id rather have easy access to AWK than python :-)
On the zos side without any USS involvement..
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This message and any
es in separate files but not have
to mention them on the awk command line (multiple "-f" parameters and file
names on the awk command line does effectively the same thing as the
concatenated DD I use).
HTH
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Beh
OMG I got it to work !!
Thank you very much !!
Why did your JCL have so many members in
the SCRIPT DD ? I put member in with a
simple AWK program .
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter x23353
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 10:46 AM
This reminds me of the TED talk by Danny Hillis
(who is from Baltimore)
https://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_the_internet_could_crash_we_need_a_plan_b
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
René Jansen
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 9:41 AM
To:
Its funny you should mention that now. I was just
working on some JCL and I had just assumed that I
could set symbolics using IF THEN ELSE ENDIF:
// IF (STEP1.RC = 0) THEN
// SYMB=GOOD
// ELSE
// SYMB=BAD
// ENDIF
but I found out that BOTH SET statements are executed
no matter what the
isnt it possible to go
too far
in enforcing the rules ?
perhaps the rules should allow for a reasonable
amount of side discussion as might happen in
an office ?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Darren Evans-Young
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2023
Yes but we arent Romans so I think its acceptable
to use data for a single piece of data. If enough
people use a word incorectly doesnt it become
acceptable?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Seymour J Metz
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2022 6:36 AM
To:
Id like to thank IBM-MAIN for all the interesting
discussions and things that I have learned ..
I am but a poor and humble COBOL programmer . Most
of the discussions are over my head but I have learned
a lot and enjoy reading the posts.
Thanks ! :-)
We have a PDSE with member names starting with a
left paren which were created with some old software.
I am unable to create such members in ISPF edit or to
copy them with IEBCOPY.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Sent:
Is it possible that this processing used to be done on
an IBM mainframe and was "modernized" ?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/02/ransomware_infection_credit_unions/
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Can you set up a constant in the
SYMNAMES DD to do that ?
Or is that for different functions ?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Lionel B. Dyck
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 2:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: DFSort Report question
Does
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