Sounds great! Especially the metalworking - I hope that's where you get
to melt and mold things, or maybe shape things on a lathe. Thanks for
all the ServerPac help over many years, and of course for the
participation here.
On 12/12/2018 5:41 AM, John Eells wrote:
Friday, 14 December 2018, w
Pretty cool! I watched most of the session. It makes me think, oh
*that's* why things like acupuncture seem to work. I didn't see
anything about a "Spock's Brain" style interface though, although the
Professor looks a bit like Commander Riker in his red shirt, and he said
the word "Engram".
Great history, thanks. Hmm... there's a picture of a 1401 at the
Vatican in 1960. Maybe they we're working on "The Nine Billion Names of
God"
On 12/27/2018 1:37 AM, Joe Monk wrote:
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/mainframe/
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You're right - it makes me feel like I'm dragging something heavy
around, like the cursor just gained 10 pounds :) Electrons have weight!
On 12/29/2018 8:26 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
Although I'm not sure that Tom himself is a fan of crosshairs.
On 1/4/2019 4:35 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
Whether or not your exit routine is doing anything useful can only be
determined by examining the routine and understanding the exit.
That means someone has to find the source code, make sure it's the
actual version running, and then be able to underst
Reminds me of working on my dad's MG when I was a kid. Reading the
manual: What's a spanner? What's a power unit? Why do they keep
telling me to "prise" something apart? :)
The car was recently restored to nearly original condition by my brother
- http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/mga.jpg
Probably not what you want, but the first thing I think of is ssh. I've
written web applications running php on Linux/Windows that do things
like this (if I remember correctly):
exec("ssh use...@mainframe.ip some_script.sh",$out,$rc);
SSH keys need to be setup on the running system, but tha
Last year I was watching the install of a new z14-ZR1 and the CE
couldn't get the ICC consoles to work until he did a POR *after* the
IP/LU settings were in place. I thought this was rather odd. Most
likely there were dynamic ways around the problem, but when there's
nothing running on a mach
It takes a while to work through the procedure, but it's very doable. The
non-console OSAs are a menagerie of who knows what. It's easier to POR to catch
them all at once.
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Of Tom
Nice! I wonder if they've also thought of the side-business
opportunity:
https://www.123rf.com/photo_25111994_european-boy-in-asian-conical-hat-isolated-on-white.html
On 1/20/2019 1:51 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
Coffee or other drink, for example a caffeine containing drink, is
delivered to ind
Or I'm wondering if Global Mirror directly from DS8886 to DS8886 might
be worth looking into, simplifying that process by eliminating XRC.
That takes an extra copy of each DASD volume at each site though.
On 2/14/2019 10:12 AM, Stuart zseries wrote:
What was missing when I left:
The ability to
This is pretty interesting to me, because in the past I've noticed that
when I connect to TSO via a 3270 control unit (let's call that port
3270) such as on the Hercules TK4 setup, Vista TN3270 Attention doesn't
work as expected - X-SYSTEM appears but nothing else happens. But
Attention DOES w
This didn't work for me exactly as described. I did a 3.14 search which
locked up the screen for about 10 seconds, and during that time
Reset/PA1 seemed to have no effect. However, a single Attention brought
me immediately to the main ISPF menu. Maybe this behavior changes
depending on what
p://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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This is prett
Personally, I don't really like the index.html method IBM provides, so I
made a VBS script that takes that index and turns it into a pile of
Windows shortcuts with group directory names and manual titles (bad
characters taken out). Send me an email if you want to try it.
On 2/28/2019 8:06 AM,
Sue - long story, sorry:
In the 90's we had a web server running (where else?) on MVS with web
pages designed for application programmers and others who needed
information about various local things - from RACF to TMS to how to get
your TSO id cancelled. I created the main web page format and
On 2/28/2019 2:39 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 1/03/2019 4:10 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
Personally, I don't really like the index.html method IBM provides, so
I made a VBS script that takes that index and turns it into a pile of
Windows shortcuts with group directory names and manual titles
Thanks! I'll use that Chrome setting for now on. It means an extra
click once a pdf is downloaded, but I'm used to that for word/excel etc.
And then I get the benefit of the "real" pdf search and other features.
But for the local-disk IBM pdf's: the pretend download and multiple
copies (lik
Things like the ABC's of System Programming are really good. But
without #1, they aren't much help to someone interested.
On 3/5/2019 7:09 AM, Bill Ogden wrote:
When learning a complex new concept, a hardcopy manual where you can
stick a finger in a page, flip backwards, view multiple pages at
I'm thinking of my high-school Philosophy class where we tried to figure
out if some particular action was good or evil. One approach was to
look at the action and ask, "What if everybody did it?"
On 3/15/2019 2:28 PM, william giannelli wrote:
I just want to see replies to my posts…..
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On 3/31/2019 6:44 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Correct. You're also not really providing any protection beyond the case of
someone walking into the data center and pulling a
drive. Any compromise of any kind on the system is going to get cleartext, so
the encryption won't help at all.
If someon
It's confusing, but it's just those few keyboard/mouse/display feature
codes being withdrawn. I haven't seen one yet, but the newer feature
code 0148 called a "Table Top KMM" is supposed to have everything in one
unit that sits on the desktop. I'll guess it's just like the slide-out
KMM's you
I spent hours one time trying to figure out why my DC H'0' resulted in
an 0C4. Turned out someone coded a bad address in the ESTAE routine, so
*every* abend turned into an 0C4.
On 4/10/2019 7:12 PM, Christopher Y. Blaicher wrote:
When I need an abend I use DC H'0'
It gets an 0C1 every time.
profile intercom ?
profile wtpmsg ?
I forgot which does what.
On 4/10/2019 9:15 PM, Peter wrote:
Hi
One of our user who has his userid in all the batch job in most of the
scheduled batch. So whenever he logs on he usually gets the notification of
job completion along with logon message.
Nothi
On 4/11/2019 8:40 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:
And I'm 99.9% sure that DASD capacity was determined by building the geometry
and then trying various densities until error rates became unacceptable, then
backing off slightly. Which would explain the weird, random sizes with each
generation (until
Interesting story! The only time I've actually seen a head crash was on
an old 3330 where I had just popped in a RES pack. I walked over to the
hardware console to IPL - the old 3270 where you had to type L1/A2 or
whatever those commands were. The hardware console told me I had an I/O
error,
while they were
testing, and they still turned over the working drive within the 2 weeks they
had promised.
I don't impress easily, but they impressed me.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li
Thanks Lionel! I skimmed over the pdf this morning - looks good!
On 4/19/2019 7:10 AM, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
I am announcing a new, free, ebook with usable examples for all ISPF developers
with tips and tricks to jump start or improve your dialog writing. It is 70+
pages and the zip includes
Just wondering... Is the reason for this because upper case may be
easier to read for folks who's first language is something other than
English?
On 4/28/2019 10:43 PM, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote:
I found a solution.
There is an optional FMID you can download and install called JIF7R16 that adds
libr
I remember him! He made guitars talk.
Ouch... I checked https://www.acronymfinder.com/IBM.html and it has at
least one other body issue that could be considered worse.
On 5/1/2019 6:22 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Those of you who were conscious should know who Peter Frampton is (if you were
a
Ok, but why is Windows easier to hack than the mainframe?
Personally, I'd find a mainframe far easier to hack because I know a
little bit about control blocks, APF auth, SVC's, subsystems, address
spaces, RACF, etc., and I know far less about the equivalents on
Windows. But of course the firs
using the same
string for all password reset requests, and (as one of the RACF support
people) I wanted to surreptitiously test that. But when they answered
the phone with "Hello Tom Brennan", I thought I'd take the ruse as far
as possible.
The Help Desk wants to help.
On 5/
s exposed to hack than IE. IE had a much larger install base so
was more targeted.
Many other reasons.
Hackers tend to target the easier platform.
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On Monday, May 6, 2019, 9:27 PM, Tom Brennan
wrote:
Ok, but why is Windows easier to hack than the mainframe?
Per
On the flip side, I bet there are many folks who were prompted to check
their systems when they saw Phil Young's "Soldier of Fortran" web pages.
On 5/7/2019 7:49 AM, Nightwatch RenBand wrote:
Publishing "success stories" is a two edged sword. Don't and other
installations cannot protect agains
privileges beyond those assigned to your userid and groupid?
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re:
We're you told what prevented them from getting into the mainframe, or
any details about the attempt?
On 5/8/2019 5:02 AM, Bill Johnson wrote:
We did hire a firm to come in and test. They were able to get into the building
by piggy backing on someone else’s badge. Were able to get into various
"Were"... typing while eating is my excuse. Sorry for the crumbs.
On 5/8/2019 12:27 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
We're you told what prevented them from getting into the mainframe, or
any details about the attempt?
On 5/8/2019 5:02 AM, Bill Johnson wrote:
We did hire a firm to c
"I'd expect unexpected results"
Wait a second... I'm in a loop with that statement :)
My first thought was a disassembler if this is something pretty small,
and then try to pick out any assembled TPX macros and control block
references since I think those would be the most likely changes betwe
And while I haven't heard any news about LzLabs (z/OS simulation on
Linux) in the past couple of years, I was once told their initial
customers were going to be large European banks. If so, those banks
didn't really care what platform they were running on, they just wanted
their existing code
Yep - that's what I was told. Of course it may have been just LzLabs'
hope, or just talk.
On 5/10/2019 10:53 AM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2019-05-10 o 19:48, Tom Brennan pisze:
And while I haven't heard any news about LzLabs (z/OS simulation on
Linux) in the past couple of years,
That's one of my favorite things about Rexx (although I hear EXECIO is
not really part of Rexx and I know it's not in PC versions like Regina).
I've used it on some very large datasets, and yeah, you wait a bit for
the data to load. But once data is in the stem variable, things are
really fas
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That's one o
Maybe we should all have a six-pack in the fridge that we're not allowed
to touch until someone offers one.
On 5/21/2020 4:44 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
Sam Virtual Adams.
.
.
J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-71
Semi-Related - I seem to remember a software product, not sure what the
name was, that would poke a date and maybe other information in "unused"
fields in the VTOC for each dataset. Maybe it was a last-opened date or
similar. And it might have been a product that did a bit of what HSM
does, prior
SAMS sounds familiar, thanks!
Original Message
Subject: Re: TIME a data set was created?
From: Alan Young
Date: Sat, May 30, 2020 1:02 pm
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
You may be thinking of DMS/OS aka SAMS:DISK aka CA-DISK.
From: Tom Brennan
When I bought my Yamaha piano in 1989, I heard a story that Yamaha had
been supplying free pianos to universities for years. It was more than
them just being nice, they knew that someone practicing every day on the
school grand piano would likely go on to buy one, or be the decision
maker for
Yep! And I remember dynamic allocation errors where the user basically
just gets the SVC99 return/reason code, and the only way to figure out
what happened is to look it up in the programming manual - not even a
message manual.
So here's an example for you: If the BLDL gets a non-zero return
eymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Things like numeric conversion and scooting text around are difficult in
assembler, so I would tend to put that off until later [1]. Then one
day I coded a macro and underlying subroutine so I could do something
like this:
#PRINTF SYSPRINT,'DFS0929I BLDL ON DDNAME %s FAILED with RC=%d FOR
ME
At least in that case you can hopefully reproduce the error :)
It's the one-time lost error messages that as a support person, you
sometimes have to say, "Oh well"
My favorite is when someone is repeatedly getting an error, but when
they call me over and without doing anything differently, the
Tom's opinion: Top posting is like a meeting where one person talks,
everybody hears it, and the conversation continues without having to
explain the whole meeting each time. When someone new comes along
though, it would be nice to have a chronological history of what
happened before - that's
On 6/13/2020 10:57 AM, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
On Jun 13, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
Wait - is bottom-posting a thing? I've always assumed that bottom-posters are
just careless; they read down to a certain point, and then type in their
responses without thinking about where. Are yo
Reminds me of a box of nanoseconds that the company I work for bought,
containing long spools of fiber to test (or more likely prove that it
won't work?) various km distances between sysplexed mainframes.
http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/fiber_spools.png
On 6/13/2020 4:34 PM, Mark S Waterbury
have him standing
pretty much by himself, with anyone else socially distanced from him.
And quit looking at ibm-main on weekends.
On 6/13/20 1:05 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
On 6/13/2020 10:57 AM, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
On Jun 13, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
Wait - is bottom-posting a th
That does seem a little unusual. It makes me wonder if Google can get
to the notes for outside indexing. Tested: Apparently not. A google
search for the URL comes up with only a few hits, and all bring me to
the logon page when I click on them.
On 6/15/2020 8:25 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
I
When searching google for manuals, I seem to remember coming across a
site that has uploaded things like redbooks and (I believe) charges for
access. Sorry no link right now but I'm sure I remember this.
P.S. That'll be $19.99 for this information. But wait... if you call
right now you can d
And I'd add #3: Hunt for something like "key defaults" or "keyboard
shortcuts" in the Help doc associated with the application. There might
be a list of special keys there and that would help with other things
like Clear, Attention, Erase to End of Field (or whatever that was
called on a real
Side note: I had to chuckle when I first saw "NDM" replaced in all the
messages and screens with "C:D". Hey, a 3 character replace and we're
done without having to worry about strings getting longer or shorter :)
On 6/21/2020 10:24 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
Managed File Transfer. NDM, is one
I've tried to skim some of the AT-TLS doc, and even attended an IBM
webinar last week, but I'm still missing what I imagine are important
background points. Maybe someone here can explain things, but don't
worry too much about it.
Client and server programs like SSH/SSHD call programs such as
e TLS
1.2 and higher. In your TELNETPARMS for the port, instead of using SECUREPORT,
you use TTLSPORT, referencing a port specified in a TTLSRule in AT-TLS.
First Horizon Bank
Mainframe Technical Support
-Original Message-
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Brennan
port ranges. FTPS handles MVS datasets better if possible use
FTPS for MF to MF and use SFTP for MF to Other platforms(MS,UNIX,etc)
MS
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Brennan
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Brennan
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:19 PM
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[CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the
check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEzX70moOQ
I also got 200 hits for 'AT-TLS' after logging in to share.org; you might want
to do the same to see which of those are the most useful to you.
- KB
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On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10:27 PM, Tom Bren
just a wild wishlist.
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On Wednesday, July 1, 2020 10:16 AM, Tom Brennan
wrote:
Thanks KB... I think I got my basic question answered, which is that
one thing AT-TLS was designed for is to encrypt data for TCP/IP programs
that weren't originally writt
It wasn't me! I keep forgetting to lock up my computer when I leave my
desk. http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/toms_computer.png
On 7/1/2020 5:53 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-07-01 8:26 PM, John McKown wrote:
And what?
I can subscribe to IBM-MAIN using John Doe and some anonymous email.
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Thanks KB... I think I got my basic question answered, which is that
one thing AT-TLS was designed for is to encrypt data
About 100 years ago I wrote such a program and did 4 calls, one each for
ATTR=READ/UPDATE/CONTROL/ALTER. So either something new came out later,
or I just didn't look hard enough :) I never thought of it as a big
deal though, it's not like my program was getting called a million times
a day.
I don't know how IRC works, but I clicked a link and ended up here.
https://ajk.me/building-an-ibm-3270-terminal-controller
Wow! Nice work on the card and protocol.
On 7/13/2020 5:48 AM, Alexander Huemer wrote:
Hi
For your information, I have created the IRC channel ##3270-5250 (mind
the two h
Maybe he's talking about this link, which is my old bookmark to the pdf's:
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosv2r2-pdf-download?OpenDocument
The index is there, but if I click to look at a pdf file, I get a 404 error.
On 7/16/2020 4:30 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
It
On 7/16/2020 9:12 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I once saw a PL/I programmer that somebody had compressed
Ouch! Was that common practice? If so I'm glad I never coded anything
in PL/I :)
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Worth watching, thanks! Usually I'd rather read than listen, but this
guy really moves along. That's about half an hour of info packed into
12 minutes.
On 7/23/2020 6:17 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote:
I know this has just about run it's course, but I came across this
interesting youtube video about
I used to type JCLERROR or similar at the top of a proc I didn't want
started. Like Steve said, this was typically because I was doing some
work on the task in the middle of the night and I didn't want another
sysprog (or more likely automation) starting it up until I was done.
Auditors were s
No, there was no reason for either.
On 7/26/2020 9:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:18:48 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
I used to type JCLERROR or similar at the top of a proc I didn't want
started. Like Steve said, this was typically because I was doing some
work on the
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Subject: Re: Started task stopping immediately. No error messages.
I
I don't know if this is related, but I get emails every once in a while
telling me a PC's higher PF keys don't do anything at all. It seems to
often be a Dell laptop and they need to click the key either
while or before clicking the PF key. People have also told me if they
do (I think?) or
Reminds me of a "Tech Support" (I think) magazine article I read many
years ago that started out with something like, "The company datacenter
has lost all its data, including all backups. A disgruntled employee
with full access ran weekend jobs which overwrote all tapes and disk
backups, and t
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Subject: Re: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm
Reminds me of a "Tech Support" (I think) magazine article I read many
years ago that started out with something like, "The compa
And to take this one step further (really one step too far), IBM boxes
(DS and TS) have a built-in function called Secure Data Overwrite, so
that before an old, replaced box goes out the door, the user can get a
certification that all their old data is truly overwritten with multiple
passes. S
While I really like your new term, "ransomwared", I have to disagree
with the conclusion. Of course we need to try to prevent the attack,
but we also need to have some kind of backup to get things at least
somewhat back to normal. And that doesn't mean a single backup method
for all kinds of
Great notes, thanks! But real geeks know Warp Drive will be invented in
2063 and with that humans can easily catch up with Voyager, well, unless
it becomes Vger.
Here in the Los Angeles area a few years ago I went to see a guitar
player and happened to meet a few guys who engineered and built
Thanks! That helps explain an IPL last year of a newly-created LPAR
where we removed every startup parm we could think of for the first IPL.
ACF2 messages still showed up on the console, so I figured there must be
a hook somewhere. We had copied the res-pack from an already running
system.
Sam was one of the regular writers I made sure to read every issue. It
will be fun to read through some again. But now it looks like all text
- where is Sam's picture, like in the magazine? :)
On 5/27/2019 1:05 PM, scott Ford wrote:
Sam,
I loved Naspa, it was great and of the articles were
I've seen the acronym ESM a few times in this thread. I'll assume that
means "Enterprise Security Management", and I'll guess it refers to
security processes (not RACF), such as assigning userid's, making sure
people have just the access they need, periodic audits, etc.
Am I even close?
On 5
Thanks!
On 5/30/2019 9:20 AM, Ray Overby wrote:
ESM - External Security Manager. I use ESM when I am talking about ACF2,
RACF, and TSS.
On 5/30/2019 10:20 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
I've seen the acronym ESM a few times in this thread. I'll assume
that means "Enterprise Secu
Or could it be done without having to involve the console, say with a
batch TSO WHOHAS command or similar.
On 6/1/2019 11:07 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Fri, 31 May 2019 16:32:13 + willie bunter
<001409bd2345-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
:>Hallo All,
:>Would anybody have an
On 6/14/2019 7:12 AM, Bill Ogden wrote:
Wow. Everyone is being helpful.
Yes! But only because nobody mentioned mainframe security or AMODE 32 :)
I have to say when I saw that DSN=FORMAT4.DSCB post I said, "What???"
and immediately went off to try it. Then I saw Skip's post about ZAP.
-
No matter how correctly a site does their work, there's always a chance
of an issue. So how we handle a breach should also be looked at. For
example, how can data be held hostage? You just treat the failure as if
your production disks all died at once, restore from your latest offline
backup
I always guessed COND= was invented by someone who took a Boolean Logic
or Digital Electronics class, where I once heard that negative logic
NAND/NOR ends up with less logic or hardware than AND/OR.
On 7/12/2019 5:41 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
As a long-time assembler programmer and JCL wrangler,
Simple: No
Longer: I'll guess you're talking about clearing memory? I do seem to
remember writing code on a z80 to clear a section of bytes to zero, and
oops if I messed up it would keep writing zeros to 64K, wrap around to
zero, and then continue on until the zeros hit the instructions that
When I worked on site for many years around some of the best sysprogs in
the business, such as Skip Robinson and Stuart Holland, about the only
technical benefit was the ad-hoc meetings. I might have a question in
my head and I'd just yell over the cubicle walls. Or someone would call
me or a
8/22/2019 12:53 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I would consider a land line to be far more reasonable than a cell phone if I
were telecommuting.
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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So many times I worked on a script or compiled/assembled code, got an
error that made no sense, and then complained to anyone who would
listen, "The system is obviously broken". And I'm sure you can guess
*exactly* how many of those times the system really turned out to be
broken :)
On 8/29/
And be careful even with the quotes. For example, if I use a script to
create a csv file containing something like this:
"3390","12E3"
On my Win 10 system, even with the quotes that unit address turns into a
number because Excel apparently thinks it's an exponent representation.
I can fix th
LOL
Those orange ladders are really good quality. I'm always tempted to
take one home with me.
On 9/3/2019 10:54 AM, zMan wrote:
Only if you install an RPQ.
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 6:43 AM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote:
Is it OK to use the stool that came with a z890 to repair a z13s?
The ladder tha
Great descriptions! I was thinking of the PI calculation myself because
that's a case where you're doing real work, but the loop could be coded
with no I/O and no SVC calls (which would give up control). Now here's
a case I thought about in the past: Assuming I'm running such a PI
calculatio
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Charles
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Great desc
Last week I was invited to an IBM z15 meeting for a particular customer.
There were 7 younger folks in the row behind me who stood out among
all the (let's say) "older" people there. I was amazed when I found out
they were recently hired out of college by the customer and are on a 3
year main
This brings back old memories. I clicked on the "text" link on your
page and it comes up with what looks like a file formatted for the tso
HELP command. I barely remember the )F and other marks.
)F Function to check access to RACF resource
I don't think I've typed up a HELP member in 30 year
Oh no, please don't! It's our history.
On 1/18/2023 10:10 AM, Willy Jensen wrote:
Yeah I know, I really should strip that from the web text.
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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 entire article?
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On Thursday, January 26, 2023, 3:19 PM, zMan wrote:
IBM top brass accused again o
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