Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

On 8/7/2012 21:20, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 10:17 + on 08/07/2012, Pearce, Colin E wrote about Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!: Ask the Auditors if they will help you fill out all the APARs and collect the supporting documents IMO: Any Auditor who wants to tell me how to do my

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

There is something reassuring in the fact that these kinds of performance numbers are available and looked at. /Tom Kern On 8/31/2012 02:29, Jim Mulder wrote: I still like the concept of having IPL and NIP somehow resident on the SSD for very fast loading. Perhaps in z/OS 2.3 grin. I

Re: Does your company have different SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime?

I like to account for four different types of service time for SLAs. Scheduled Maintenance Windows: These are predefined, scheduled, well-publicized and should not count against an SLA. Scheduled Outages: These are outages for maintenance, upgrades etc that cannot wait until the next

Re: Does your company have different SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime?

to settle the penalties and such and hope that there are some penalties for any Outage, just not as bad for the Scheduled ones. /Tom Kern On 09/30/2013 08:49 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:40:01 -0400, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote: I like to account for four

Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp

On 05/20/2013 11:21 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In CAAJSdjhPY1=zvqhnrwbvdusc-yclionfbrzn3tt-zkczxup...@mail.gmail.com, on 05/18/2013 at 03:17 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/50574743147/big-iron-back-door-maintp-part-two

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Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX

The COMPUTE REXX (http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?COMPUTE) and TABULATE REXX (http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TABULATE) stages for PIPELINES are very handy for the kind of manipulations you need to do for this data. I do hope you can run pipelines one

Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

At one time, I broke open the UTILITY EXEC and used copies of the commands inside it to build my own version of the utiltape. Mine started with ICKDSF, then DDR, then the standalone FDR program. With that tape I could initialize a volume, restore a volume (VM or MVS) and back up a volume

Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

You just have to keep IPLing to skip past the Tape Label and tape marks. Not nice but do-able at DR. Fix it when you get back home. /Tom Kern On 05/08/2014 13:54, Alan Altmark wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2014 20:05:58 -0400, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Think the key is get a working VM

Re: Mainframe Command Center - consolidating monitoring views

If your Helpdesk or Sr Mgmt check on non-mainframe systems, they might know/recognize such monitoring applications as Xymon(formerly Hobbit) and Nagios. I have not used any Nagios client on a Mainframe to report our status, but Xymon worked when we had a reasonable mainframe workload to be

Remaining Mainframes

I am looking to find any remaining Mainframe systems in the Department of Energy? If you are running one, please let me know who you are. /Thomas Kern /On Contract to DOE Headquarters /301-903-2211 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

Not only did GISS have a 360/95 (running a special operating system called SSS/360) but also an Amdahl 470V6 running VM/370 R3 with 3 VMs of SSS/360. My first job was production control there. I logged onto my first VM on June 23, 1976. /Tom Kern On 03/27/2015 17:41, Shmuel Metz (Seymour

Re: More ex-employer "harassment"?

When I did that at a government contract turnover, the new contractor rejected my changes and retracted the employment offer. All while I was attending SHARE on behalf of the government customer. My government supervisor found a subcontractor for me within a day and they had NO such contracts

Re: OT: What's a "ton" of JCL?

Approximately 274905 cards. 2000 cards per box is about 14.55 lbs. 137.45 boxes per ton(2000lbs) It is Friday now. /Tom Kern On 12/03/2015 22:40, Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 12/03/2015 12:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:43:38 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: ... Because DOS/VS

Re: OT: What's a "ton" of JCL?

I have never written any JCL on the boxes, just labels and notes. /Tom Kern On 12/04/2015 00:33, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Is that counting the weight of the boxes themselves? - -teD - Original Message From: Thomas Kern Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 00:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply

Re: Good, free flowchart software

There is also the yEd Graph Editor. I think it is Java so you can run it on Windows. /Tom Kern On 12/10/2015 13:00, Linda wrote: Greetings! I need a free flowcharting tool to diagram the workflows for several mainframe processes. It would have to run on Windows. Google lists several, but I

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

Perhaps what might be useful would be an assembler program to run loops of individual instructions and output some timing information. /Tom On 12/23/2015 11:20, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <8970116796168447.wa.jcallennarsil@listserv.ua.edu>, on 12/23/2015 at 09:46 AM, Jerry

Re: IBM Mainframe

Unfortunately, where I work if it isn't a Windows PC it just isn't a real computer. /Tom Kern On 11/29/2015 13:09, Scott Ford wrote: Guys, Exactly, a z/OS system isnt a PC ...and not JAVA Scott On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Ricardo Gomez Ramirez wrote: 2015-11-26

Re: Mainframe systems programmer ID 'vaulting'

Not just from some manager who doesn't know Mainframes, but some manager that has never had the responsibility of operating a real computer system for production purposes, especially in an Enterprise size data center. /Tom kern On 11/22/2016 13:43, william janulin wrote: Sounds like the

Re: Mainframe operating systems?

How about homegrown OS? When I started working on contract to NASA at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NYC, June 1976, they ran Scientific Supervisory System/360 (SSS/360) on an IBM 360/95 and a copy under VM/370 R3 on an Amdahl 470/V6. SSS/360 was about 35,000 lines of Assembler code.

Re: OT-retirement

It is time to retire when you cannot remember how long management has been trying to get rid of your mainframe. /Tom On 08/19/2017 09:11, scott Ford wrote: How does a techie of 40 yrs know when it's time to retire? Bearing in mind I understand you have to have enough money, for me that's a

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

On 11/23/2017 17:39, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 23/11/2017 10:30 PM, Munif Sadek wrote: SMF/CMF are least of our concern at the moment. We are initially inclined for any automated tool that can A.read SAS PDBs and convert them to DB2 tables and/or flat file. Tool must cater take for packed, COMP

Re: Generating random values

I was thinking that generating the random dates in Julian format (15001-15365,16001-16366) and then convert the whatever date format your record needed (-mm-dd). /Tom Kern On 04/26/2019 13:48, Sri h Kolusu wrote: Also if you have any other ideas for generating random dates (MMDD)

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

They were running MVS and VM with an MVT mentality. /Tom On 08/22/2019 19:16, David Spiegel wrote: Hi Tom, In 1985, who was running MVT? Regards, David On 2019-08-22 19:05, Thomas Kern wrote: Thirty-four years ago I taught my Federal customers (MVT sysprogs) that there were three things I

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

Thirty-four years ago I taught my Federal customers (MVT sysprogs) that there were three things I could not do once I had proper communications. 1) I could not mount tapes 2) I could not tear paper off the printers 3) I could not press the Power button Now we no longer have mainframe attached

Re: Friday!

On 07/22/2019 12:07, retired mainframer wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Weinhold Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Friday! I almost remember how to do it on an IBM 1620 Simply the best machine

Re: Another IBM Mainframe bites the dust

My condolences. /Tom Kern /former z/VM Systems Programmer On 10/02/2019 13:56, Honeycutt,Mary C wrote: Hi All, After 47 years, The University of Florida, Has shut down our Mainframe. Thanks, Cathy Honeycutt Systems Admin/Programmer III 720 SW 2nd Avenue Gainesville, FL 32603

Re: Using bpxbatch to compress an MVS dataset

Another consideration is how many times the compressed file would be transferred. We used to host lots of documents on our mainframe to be served out on a website. When the transfer load became noticeable on the performance reports, we started compressing the most common documents. The

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

My view is: "You can write Fortran in any language, badly." /Tom Kern On 05/10/2020 10:13, Seymour J Metz wrote: "You can write Fortran in any language." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 -- For

Re: OT: Mandatory Work From Home at my company

35 years ago, I started teaching Dept of Energy sysprogs that with proper communications, there were only three things we could not do. 1) mount / unmount tapes on tape drives 2) tear paper off the printer 3) press the power button When we finally got rid of the Mainframe last August, there

Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm

Unless the migration away from Physical Tape was done by people completely unfamiliar with Mainframe processing Change 'tape' to 'Virtual Tape Subsystem Objects' Although we used the DRVendor's floor system to run the restore, we could have had them 'mount' our DR z/VM or DR z/OS system

Re: report writer alternatives

In my mainframe career, I used DYLAKOR, Eztrieve, Earl and SAS. This one looks even better. If I still had access to a z/OS system, I would get the 30 day free trial just to see how good it really is. I would have two requests for the vendor: Can you provide a z/VM version? Can you provide a

Re: Job submission from CMS to MVS

I have done both. The difference in configuration was that when the MVS and VM systems were on the same physical system with MVS running under VM, we submitted to the virtual reader. When the systems were on separate physical systems, we used RSCS. Eventually, we moved to using RSCS as the job

Re: Trouble getting new mainframe staff?

Their bosses bought the propaganda and trashed their mainframes and spent lots of money to run everything on Windows. /Tom Kern On 2022-03-20 13:35, Bill Johnson wrote: I would venture to say many mainframe workers left the platform because of the naysayers predicting the demise of the

Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

We had Windows PCs as consoles for our ICC. All of them were not on the real network, so no regular Windows updates. Once a month, we took a long Ethernet cable and connected each console PC to the real network and updated Windows and then reconnected to the ICC. Not too hard to do. /Tom

Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

think you are.” - - - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Friday, April 29, 2022 11:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles. We had Windows PCs

Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

I use one of these PI units at home for my bedroom when I have to be laid up after surgery. It is small, and efficient. It can get a bit warm, I don't have a fan for mine, but you can get them. They even have a mounting so that it attaches to the back of a monitor via the VESA mounting holes.

Re: Markup languages

with Windows-only people. /Tom Kern On 12/22/2022 12:24 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 00:38, Thomas Kern wrote: I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began writing Data Center Operation manuals using it. Is an executable for it available anywhere? If so

Re: Markup languages

Showing my age... I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began writing Data Center Operation manuals using it. I even wrote a Resignation Memo with it. For a while, I did have a 1600 BPI tape with both WSCRIPT and my 'resign script a0' file. Later I found that 2

Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value]

I haven't seen the inside of Waterloo Script macros for al LONG time. It will take me a while to get back into reading/debugging this just like working with COBOL. Tom On 3/28/2023 10:50 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Are you sure this is a program and not the result of a cat dancing a jig on

Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value]

but this is an IBM product. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value] I haven't seen the inside of Waterloo

Re: Open Job posting

Sorry, but I am not interested in changing employment. Tom On 3/30/2023 1:40 PM, Dave Jousma wrote: All, I have a new job posting for Mainframe Storage Management/Sysprog position that can be seen here: