sly only 1 OS image on the box.
Rex
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Once IBM started using LPARs was there ev
Once IBM started using LPARs was there ever another option? I don't
remember or was never involved. Today I call running under an LPAR
"bare metal", as opposed to z/VM or KVM or whatever.
On 1/17/2023 10:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I understand that IBM wisely nowadays
supports z/OS only
Yep :) I still remember once working with Skip Robinson where he
diagnosed an issue on our most important production LPAR (not sure if
the cause was IBM, ISV, or Customer). Anyway, we found we could cure it
by either an IPL or a key zero zap. We asked the managers and they said
schedule the
Still, the methods IBM used to go from 24bit through 64bit are probably
the best possible solutions while remaining compatible. Compare with my
Win10 box that just says "Nope" when I try to run a 16 bit program, and
who knows when 32bit code will do the same.
At least with 64bit we know
In addition, both HMA HMC's need to be cabled and setup at install time.
I've had some folks ask if they can cable only the HMA SE's to talk to
existing external HMC's and leave the HMA HMC's for "later". SSR's say no.
Another new z16 feature people are concerned about is the ETS RJ45 ports
LOL
On 1/13/2023 4:17 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
W dniu 12.01.2023 o 21:07, Tom Brennan pisze:
On 1/12/2023 9:37 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
Maximum input records for DFSORT is infinity,
Good to know! I'm testing that to be sure, but it's still running...
Wrong. You should generate test
On 1/12/2023 9:37 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
Maximum input records for DFSORT is infinity,
Good to know! I'm testing that to be sure, but it's still running...
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On 1/10/2023 10:03 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
me too :( not due to rain - for some reason beyond my control I'm not
getting any of my responses or any responses to my work email account :(
Carmen
On 1/10/2023 11:43 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
I'm still here, despite my first fiber
I'm still here, despite my first fiber internet outage (early this
morning according to my server log). Most likely caused by a flood
somewhere nearby. Here in Southern California I think we've now had
more rain than in the last 10 years total.
On 1/10/2023 8:39 AM, Farley, Peter wrote:
I think he's purposely saying So Long to us, not the machine. Although
I have tried to reason with machines in the past, it's often futile.
On 12/28/2022 5:51 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022, at 13:25, Greg Shirey wrote:
Thanks for all the fish!
Come for the mainframe, stay for the comedy :)
On 12/16/2022 9:29 AM, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote:
Yes, but that's quite a new feature. Only about 25 years old.
Lennie
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Perfect - much easier to read.
On 12/15/2022 1:47 PM, Glenn Wilcock wrote:
Hi Tom, you're not alone! I've added an attachment of the pdf at the same
link. Viewing the pdf in full-screen mode gives you the same navigation, but
removes all of the animation so that you can go at your own
Thanks, I downloaded with no problems. But when I run it here, the text
appears slowly on the screen. I'm kind of impatient :) so I stopped
reading after the second screen. Is there a button I can push that will
show me all the text on a screen without waiting?
On 12/15/2022 11:26 AM,
I've never worked with a TKE, but I've had to plug into HMC's, DS8000's,
and others such as IBM 2421 SKLM's, and I believe I've always had to
format my USB as FAT32 on Windows.
On 12/7/2022 12:00 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
I need to update microcode in my TKE.
Unfortunately I used USB
I never knew each section of a computer had its own distinct sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukyHECjKDoQ
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> but it is mere waste on DASD, as 55,996 - 32760 = 23,236 bytes left >
over, and because tracks can't be shared between other files
Great ov
> but it is mere waste on DASD, as 55,996 - 32760 = 23,236 bytes left
> over, and because tracks can't be shared between other files
Great overview, but is the note above still true with modern DS8000
boxes? It's just hard for me to imagine 3390 emulation logic holding
that 23K hostage.
On
VSAM under Mysql... works fine...
My toy!
lol
Dan
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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 10:50 PM, Tom Brennan
wrote:
My guess is it's more like how Compaq managed to create their PC
compatible ROM in the 80's.
On 11/22/2022 4:46 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
Reverse e
My guess is it's more like how Compaq managed to create their PC
compatible ROM in the 80's.
On 11/22/2022 4:46 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
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
Thanks Jim! I was very confused for a second there :)
On 11/22/2022 11:25 AM, Jim Mulder wrote:
That's an impressive display of misinformation.
Present day Z machines are not emulators. They have their own CPU chips which
are different from the CPU chips used for Power and I.
The storage
And always say "Thanks" when talking to a computer :)
Without them I'd probably be fixing vacuum cleaners or tiling bathrooms.
Both which are still fun to do, by the way.
On 11/6/2022 9:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On 11/6/22 08:53:42, William J Bishop wrote:
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$#@
Is it Friday yet?
On 11/3/2022 7:57 PM, Reg Harbeck wrote:
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+1.403.605.7986
On Nov 3, 2022, at 17:23, Reg Harbeck wrote:
#!
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On Nov 3, 2022, at 15:17, zMan wrote:
!
Srsly, what do you mean?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at
as the (expletive deleted) OCO policy.
I've seen IBM-lifers defend it on this forum, yet, it still did not/does
not make sense.
Regards,
David
On 2022-10-31 19:31, Tom Brennan wrote:
I get it... I just heard from an old co-worker that sometime this
month they shut down the mainframe in Southern
I get it... I just heard from an old co-worker that sometime this month
they shut down the mainframe in Southern California that I worked on
from 1983 to 2013. That was my first exposure to an IBM mainframe, and
I think XA had just come out and people were busy fixing programs to
work in
On a z16 I'm involved with I noticed the Customized Planning Aid has a
section on ETS, including this paragraph:
"External Time Source (ETS) IP network considerations: For redundancy
and resiliency, The IP addresses ETS1 and ETS2 must be configured on
different subnets. When planning the
Is the COD still available?
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=system-customized-offerings-driver
On 9/26/2022 2:05 PM, rpinion865 wrote:
Is not Kyndryl an IBM company, that sells z/OS services to clients???
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I can work without goto for a long time, until suddenly I need it,
usually when coding some kind of error logic. Then I'll have to either
duplicate code or scoot a section into its own subroutine for no other
reason than the lack of a goto. But yeah, it can be confusing later if
used when
Since we're drifting, I'm remembering another method I think they called
Structured Programming or maybe Top Down Programming. I was never an
application programmer so I don't know all the terms. But I think I
came across it one day while helping a COBOL programmer. Their main
routine
Maybe surrogate job submission? I do like the USER= on this sample:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=submitted-allowing-surrogate-job-submission
On 9/20/2022 4:26 PM, Shaffer, Terri wrote:
Hi,
I am asking this in the main forum hopefully it will be a simple answer, that I
just
Spitting out messages with formatted values was always a hassle for me
in assembler. So years ago I wrote some code to somewhat mimic printf,
and never looked back. Invoked by macros something like this:
#PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS LINE %D OF %D',VAR1,VAR2
#PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS STRING %S
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instructions, registers, PSW bits and such, and moving up from there. Higher
level languages and especially
out, until they died, frequently by
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Uh oh, maybe that's my problem :) I never learned any Latin other than the
little bit I heard in ch
On 9/17/2022 9:25 PM, Brian Westerman wrote:
I had to take Latin as well, and while I never used it directly trying to
communicate with anyone, it has been a great help over the years. Plus, it
makes me not sound as dumb as I really am.
Uh oh, maybe that's my problem :) I never learned any
On 9/7/2022 7:18 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I was told my application would be "moved into the approval queue" in February
2022, but significant numbers of unanswered emails later I still do not have a copy.
They just stopped responding at all.
The FAQ at url
On 9/6/2022 10:19 AM, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
I just used a Special character to denote the start of a comment. You can have
any character.
And using # as that character shows we are being assimilated :)
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But like you say (and if nothing has changed over the years), you need
to setup keys.
Ssh-keygen makes it easy. The keys are stored as text files. It ought
to be possible to Copy from a Vista OMVS window and Paste to
a Linux xterm ssh win
On 9/1/2022 12:05 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Might be possible with either BPXPATCH or BPXWUNIX. Set up your
public-private keypairs on z/OS with ssh-keygen and copy the
public key to Linux.
Yes, that's what I used to do. Something like this:
//SFTP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=8M,
// PARM='SH
On 8/31/2022 9:35 AM, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
I can post a note here describing what I'm trying to do along with some data
samples, and like the elves who make shoes, complete JCL and SYSIN will
magically appear the next morning.
Tom,
I believe this platform is to share and help each other. I
need to share anything.
We'll be the ones looking dumb with capable tools & not knowing how to properly
use them.
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But with DFSORT I don't need to know the syntax at all. I can post a
But with DFSORT I don't need to know the syntax at all. I can post a
note here describing what I'm trying to do along with some data samples,
and like the elves who make shoes, complete JCL and SYSIN will magically
appear the next morning.
On 8/30/2022 5:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
The
Yes, I think I read it was a class project! That sure beat the simple
programs we had to write when I was taking computer classes.
Around 1996 I was looking for something easier to use than the company
terminal emulator we were provided, and I ended up getting "Distinct
Intelliterm" for
1g
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 10:00 PM Tom Brennan
wrote:
So just for me, you're saying it's a 10G card, and like IBM doc says 10G
cards won't negotiate. So if the switch is max 1G that seems to explain
the problem.
But the solution is interesting. IBM says the customer should never
swap SFP's in the
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:14:49 -0700, Tom Brennan <
t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote:
Is it
Is it a 10G (1 port) or 1G (2 port) OSA card? 10G cards won't negotiate
speed, from what I've seen.
On 8/15/2022 10:21 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
Hi
The OSA port is connected with working cable LC-LC MM fibre to the 1g
switch. From the Cisco switch it has been set as auto negotiate to yes.
I did sort of the same thing at one time, I had a written list of
passwords but each were missing a couple of characters that were the
same in all.
One of my stories (sorry if I told this before) is when I gave my
mainframe password to an operator one evening to avoid a drive to work.
I told
this.
Rex
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Interesting! I expected the regular requirements we see toda
Interesting! I expected the regular requirements we see today (special
characters, numerics, etc.) but instead it jokes about some of the
tricks people used in those days, like changing nothing but a month
name. I think that was pretty common.
On 8/3/2022 7:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I've barely worked with TSS, but when I did I would send a list of RACF
commands copy/pasted from an install manual to CA support, and they
would reply with the TSS equivalents. They never complained and never
rubbed my nose in a manual, so I figured this was standard procedure.
Kind of
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What was the guy's name, "Nico Mac" or similar (from 1990's memory) who
coded WinZip and made a whole lot of mo
What was the guy's name, "Nico Mac" or similar (from 1990's memory) who
coded WinZip and made a whole lot of money.
On 7/19/2022 1:18 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
That's cool idea.
I have never heard of such a tool.
Charles
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On 7/19/2022 10:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Would you just guess? Would you design a production application
based on a guess? Of course if you code your application in
XL C/C++ the support for fopen( "//DD: ..." ) is well documented.
The best part about that method is that once the
archive.org shows it was used by IBM, but years ago.
On 7/1/2022 8:44 AM, Walt Farrell wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:07:27 -0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
www.destinationz.org isn't quite what one would expect for IBM's
mainframe community website.
Did someone let domain registration expire, was
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 about why they wanted off the mainframe it's not about the
platform. Nobody denies that mainframes are insanely brilliant
With BofA the default seems to be an ATM card that is also a debit card.
When one was mailed to me I asked for an ATM card only, and they sent
that instead.
On 6/17/2022 2:36 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Curious - How do you get cash at an ATM directly from your checking or savings
If nobody has mentioned it yet, isn't one big difference between a
Mainframe and Cloud (the average definition) the fact that a company can
easily move their existing Linux processing to places like AWS, and then
later if they don't like AWS, move it just as easily to an AWS competitor?
On
Is he talking about an Edit command? I just tried this and I didn't get
any error message:
Command ===> CHANGE PARM '"Hello," says O''Reilly.'
** * Top of Data *
000100 This is a PARM
** Bottom of Data ***
Command ===>
I guess I should have tried other WSA facilities, but once I saw the GUI
editor I didn't like it and I never bothered with anything else.
I used to regularly print a page of large font that could be read across
the operations room showing res pack volsers for each LPAR. That data
was
You're taking this way off the path I intended, so pardon me if I stop now.
On 6/10/2022 2:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:46:38 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
... Now,
someone could say locking your keyboard prevents you from, say, doing
updates to the same dataset you're
already familiar with... doing a large transfer? Go
get some coffee.
On 6/10/2022 11:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:39:31 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
And I remember working with an Attachmate TN3270 emulator in the late
1990's which would (for no technical reason) lock up your
And I remember working with an Attachmate TN3270 emulator in the late
1990's which would (for no technical reason) lock up your TSO session
while doing an FTP transfer.
On 6/10/2022 8:13 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:51:37 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
FTP from z/OS
I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like,
"All your payroll needs in a single software."
Hurts my ears :)
https://www.paycom.com/learn-more/why-paycom/
On 6/7/2022 3:17 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a
I suspect you'll be called an IBM hater anyway :) And probably me too
just for posting on the subject, even though IBM has indirectly
supported me and my family since 1983.
On 6/3/2022 9:13 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
I am not taking pro- or "bashing" sides here.
That is a nice one. Never heard of it before. Just that one command
totally pays back my subscription to ibm-main.
On 6/1/2022 11:42 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
that's a good one to put in my back pocket, I've always relied on the
$DJQ,SPL=%>nn
not so easy to review if the nn number you
The shareware folks figured out there was no need for a box (or anything
physical, really) back in the 1990's or so. One of them wrote a little
program that produced a 3D image of what looked like a box. So for
years a lot of websites had pictures of a pretend box that the customer
never
Enzo mentioned he has a couple of ESCON cards, so he's still in the
running. Great pic of your dad - I've never seen a picture of one of
those wire boards being worked on and always assumed you did the work
while it was in the machine. On a table looks a whole lot easier.
On 5/29/2022 7:42
. Either way though,
performance isn't the end of the world for me.
Thanks for the info,
Enzo Damato
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I think that data is from 2015, the last time the machine reported its
configuration to IBM as far as I can tell. So
to independently verify this information so that I don't fry my new machine.
Thanks,
Enzo Damato
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I was able
blank fillers, but 2 of my I/O drawer slots are empty (no card or filler). If
you can do a lookup, I would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Enzo Damato
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I wrote some bare-metal code back in the early 1990's to basically
attempt to do what zzsa and that stand-alone-edit product does. I
stopped working on it when SAE came out but still have the old code
somewhere. Not for the meek, and I'm pretty meek. It was at the edge
of my capability.
Do you know the serial number? It's typically on a small label on the
front door. With that, someone from IBM (or maybe even me, I'm not
sure) can go to IBM's Inventory Services and get the configuration data
that was uploaded the last time the machine was connected to IBM's "call
home"
Sounds good! There's a datacenter in Utah I work with every once in a
while where we sent a used DS8870 with 3-phase power, maybe 4 months
ago. From what I heard it can't be used because it's too difficult or
expensive for them to install 3-phase. I emailed our group about it
when I saw
Great! Hopefully IBM and others can help out with the other things
needed. We need more young mainframers. I've never been one, I started
when I was already old and then got even older.
On 5/25/2022 7:05 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Proud new owner!
:56 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
just went back and check - yup, June 30 2020 my wedding anniversary :)
Carmen
On 5/20/2022 10:38 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
Last microcode update for z13s was June 30, 2020.
z14 dual frame coming up June 30, 2022 and ZR1 Sept 30, 2022
On 5/20/2022 8:29 AM, Carmen
I think last June ?
we were somewhat lucky the processors are already IN THE BOX so an MES
of our Z13s was done in May before the EOS date to add a second zIIP
processor
Carmen
On 5/20/2022 10:21 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
Of course a free zIIP would be the best solution. But that's
mentioned, since
zIIPs and the like are all normal processors, IBM should be able to build a bit
of microcode to use an unlicensed engine to run z/OSMF.
Rex
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Since z/OSMF is written in java, then why can't that high-CPU work run
on another platform such as Power or x86, and then communicate with the
mainframe for the z/OS work (i.e. submit jobs or whatever it does to run
the actual installation). Or am I thinking too far out of the box?
On
Oh I figured that. But that's just a minor additional hurdle.
On 5/12/2022 5:12 PM, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote:
Although it was in clear text, it was in a read-protected control block.
Lennie
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. They are (of course) available for user
application with BDAM (Google suggests I meant "BDSM"... almost appropriate
;-). I don't know whether ISAM ever used them.
They're basically a relic from when DASD was much much slower, and much
more expensive.
sas
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:04 PM T
Wow, clear text. But all that doesn't matter if a fellow sysprog
modifies my logon clist to put up messages something like this:
ACF01234 ID HAS BEEN OFFLINE FOR TOO LONG PLEASE LOGON AGAIN
ACF01235 ACF2, ENTER USERID:
ACF01236 ACF2, ENTER PASSWORD:
... and then SEND the password to the
J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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I remember that dataset. When I first started, one of my jobs was to
run a program someone had written that read every record looking for a
dataset match, and then spit out the password. That was for folks who
forgot their dataset password of course. The program took maybe 10
minutes to
Instead of complaining, I'm just going to say thanks to whoever thought
this up and did the work. I haven't had a chance to look at the doc
much yet, but the txt/rec/bin directories to handle the issue of
different access methods seems inspired.
On 5/6/2022 8:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On
Personally, I like the idea of learning on real hardware if possible.
The zD can teach you software, but where is the HMC? Where are the
cards, where are the cables? A few z13s boxes were possibly available
to me last year if I would have asked nicely and driven my old truck
2000 miles and
https://youtu.be/ZDtaanCENbc?t=1128
Sounds like sysplex to me, but "CICSPlex" appears in text on the video
(I have CC turned off). I'm guessing someone he was with called it
KicksPlex and that's how it got written.
But these are tiny things. This video is FAR better for its target
Uh oh... I sent you a reply yesterday. Do you have a spam folder? Am I
spam? :)
On 4/2/2022 9:35 PM, Brian Westerman wrote:
Tom,
How do I get a copy of the new test version?
Brian
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 22:10:08 -0700, Tom Brennan
wrote:
Thanks, Vista TN3270 V1.27 from 2014 uses old
ck in 2020 so it may no longer be available in that way.
However, a company license is only $299 US, so for the cost of basically 10
copies, you get a license for an unlimited number of users at your company.
I still think that VISTA (from Tom Brennan) is much better though.
At the time we did a
What that ... ???
That really surprises me. Glad I never tried APL. I can't remember,
but I think there was one guy in our shop who did use it - at least I
remember all the hieroglyphics on his keyboard.
On 3/25/2022 11:10 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
Not RPN, but APL has no operator
That's what I thought too... LOL
On 3/23/2022 3:28 PM, zMan wrote:
Are you asking what PL/I's pronouns are?
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 4:15 PM Charles Mills wrote:
How does PL/I self-identify?
Charles
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But some are not helping the situation. For example, I remember reading
(paraphrasing) "I'll think about coming out of retirement for $200 an
hour and I'll only work for one year max." When employers hear things
like that, no wonder they look for a different category.
On 3/20/2022 11:06 AM,
That has to be it! I just tried scroll-lock on PCOMM (I don't have HOD
but they probably share code) and sure enough, it prevents the arrow
keys from working.
Oddly though, I checked on some other Windows programs like MS-Word and
Notepad, and scroll-lock had no effect at all - I could even
Here's a pic as I remember the 3278 Mod-4 I used:
https://i.redd.it/zhafeucucea11.jpg
Like Peter, I use left-ctrl for Reset because of the old 3278. I modify
other keys too though, such as that little back-apostrophe/tilde key
that I never use on the mainframe - it becomes my Erase-EOF key,
I was thinking j might mean alpha and national, and c might mean alpha,
national, or numeric.
On 3/1/2022 2:51 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Neither the J nor the Cs have any significance; jccc is just a variable
name , as is nn. I probably would have used the name ddname, but that's only
I got the impression Timothy was giving us a clue that it runs on a
mainframe when he wrote:
"...the performance characteristics (to run compile jobs, for example)
are much more consistent with real IBM Z servers than with the IBM Z
Development & Test Environment (ZD) or ZPDT on X86-64
DSCLI in DOS on Windows is certainly a hassle, and typing the commands
into the CLI web page on a DS8000 GUI is certainly no better.
Have you tried the (maybe relatively new?) file-folder icon on the
DS8000 CLI screen that lets you upload a file of CLI commands for
execution? That's what
C drive ?
/ directory ?
ICKDSF ?
On 2/14/2022 1:19 PM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote:
I did a little online searching. But, I didn't see anything that helped. How
would
you define the "SYSRES volume"? I want to give a good definition to new system
programmers.
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With log4j there's a public blog page with two lists: #1 shows products
not affected, and #2 shows products remediated (with links to more info).
If something is not in either list, that could mean it's still being
evaluated, or (more likely?) in the category you mentioned - never
published
LOL
On 2/7/2022 8:40 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 09:35, Tom Brennan wrote:
Good to see! But I got a chuckle when reading the page: "Job available
in 4 locations" followed by "Work from home". How can they know how
many work locations I might have at ho
Good to see! But I got a chuckle when reading the page: "Job available
in 4 locations" followed by "Work from home". How can they know how
many work locations I might have at home?
On 2/7/2022 2:51 AM, Mark Henderson wrote:
Hope it's ok to post this here:
I watched a Soldier of Fortran hacking video the other day where Phil
noted to an audience of Linux folks how odd it was that MVS loaded
parameters and settings into memory control blocks. In Unix they say,
"Everything is a file", which is as odd to me as I'm sure they all felt.
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