Re: USS: su: User ID "SH" does not exist

2020-05-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
oriented, not record oriented, and shell syntax is molded to that. There are shell features like "here documents" (google it) which you've probably never used that would get broken if input to the USS shell got arbitrarily broken into lines to suit the flavor of MVS/TSO/JES -- Jac

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

2020-05-12 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/12/20 9:28 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I also want them in Linux for Z, but that may already be here. You do know that you can get a free LPAR for 90 days and explore what's there and what's not yourself, right? https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-linuxone/gettingstarted/ -- Jack J

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

2020-05-12 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/12/20 9:28 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I also want them in Linux for Z, but that may already be here. z/Linux has pretty much everything. Did some heavy lifting there. What wasn't there I could build, with some work. Essence of Open Source: You are part of the solution. -- Jack J

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
of nicely structured code others can maintain. PHP can be like that, if written correctly. If you want unmaintainable spaghetti, though, there's nothing quite like JavaScript :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
is for them. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
h the ever-evolving technology of web design. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understandin

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
minutes a day twice a week for the next two years the way projects are bumbled through in a modern understaffed data center? Nah, PHP for choice. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
complex sites on a short budget. If that's not your beat, then PHP is not your language. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/9/20 7:53 PM, David Crayford wrote: No it’s not it’s a terrible language Oh, don't be such a siwwy wabbit. It's a lot of fun. Despite its flaws and obscurity, it's a lot of fun to code in and widely used in the IBM i world, which I mostly inhabit these days. -- Jack J. Woehr

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
y designed, mature language, easy to learn, with huge community module support including scientific programming. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # w

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/9/20 1:59 PM, scott Ford wrote: Personally, I think *sometimes people write in what they know. It's good to get outside your zone sometimes. If you decide to do so, both Python and Go are good choices! -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
serious competition in the wide world for Node.js for authoring microservices. The New York Times web is built entirely on Go-coded microservices. Attended when the project leaders spoke at Denver Gophers on the subject. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

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

2020-05-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
of both and the warts removed. Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson were on the design team. One of those "If we had known then what we know now" moments for the fathers of C. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of s

Re: AW: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
le in your home directory .profile that does exec /bin/bash -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fin

Re: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-03 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/3/20 11:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Yah, but I wished it had presumed something minimal such as TTY33 until I could EXPORT TERM and/or set TERMINFO. Put it in your .profile or .bash_profile or whatever. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

Re: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-03 Thread Jack J. Woehr
. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Using Windows ssh with z/OS

2020-05-02 Thread Jack J. Woehr
. If not bash, use tcsh Also: export TERM=xterm -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Cobol

2020-04-26 Thread Jack J. Woehr
-> C compilers went away. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sa

Re: TSO Pipes (and BatchPipes)

2020-04-22 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/22/20 9:56 AM, Lionel B Dyck wrote: it is actually old enough to drink: It's not that long until MVS itself is old enough to collect social security ... -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically

Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job?

2020-04-17 Thread Jack J. Woehr
His son asked him, "What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?" -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine un

Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job?

2020-04-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
lem. I pointed out there were probably at least 200 bash programmers in America for every Rexx programmer. Lost that argument. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe w

Re: JCL & UNIX coding.

2020-04-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/9/20 6:02 AM, John McKown wrote: JCL should ignore case when not in ticks. Dragging z/OS kicking and screaming into the late 1970's. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating

Re: FW: COBOL NJ

2020-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
and some non-scientists are. And it's salutary to remember that it was uttered by the man dubbed "BHA" by the engineers at Apple Computer :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interr

Re: FW: COBOL NJ

2020-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/8/20 3:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: From another list: https://forms.business.nj.gov/tech/ Thanks, Paul -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/7/20 2:22 AM, R.S. wrote: You forgot about third person in a car: Ohm. Officer say "you're arrested", but Ohm resists. Thank you Radoslaw ... Even though I had forgotten, I should have known he was there by inductive reasoning! -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more t

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-06 Thread Jack J. Woehr
and asks Schrödinger if the two men have anything in the trunk. "A cat," Schrödinger replies. The cop opens the trunk and yells "Hey! This cat is dead." Schrödinger angrily replies, "Well he is now." -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowl

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-06 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/6/20 12:34 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I am not going to murder a poor defenseless kitten just for a CS class! It's not *certain* the kitty becomes an ex-cat ... :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-06 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/6/20 11:47 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I would start bottom up from the gates, which can be built with radically different technologies, e.g., Vacuum tubes ("valves") versus hydraulic logic. You Are All Obsolete <https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/> :) -- Jack J. Woe

Re: FW: COBOL NJ

2020-04-05 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Thanks,  volunteers on hand and waiting and I seem to be back on the list :) On 4/5/20 5:13 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: From: Jack J. Woehr [j...@well.com] Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 6:40 PM To: Seymour J Metz Subject: COBOL NJ Suddenly my mail to IBM

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/4/20 1:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And it works. Gasp! Congrats! With our continued effort, your and my $2500 Macs will come to approximate the usefulness of a $550 Linux box. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/4/20 12:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Works. Doesn't have nearly the Fonts I'm accustomed to on UNIX. */opt/local/bin/xset fp+ /opt/local/lib/x3270/fonts/* Assuming that's where you installed x3270 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
/homebrew-core/issues/46519 -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/4/20 9:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I tried building x3270 on Mojave from source. Also, x3270 is in the Mac Ports tree. https://www.macports.org/ Install Mac Ports and then: sudo port install x3270 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
to the configure script. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/4/20 9:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I tried building x3270 on Mojave from source. Failed with: 538 $ make did you ./configure first? http://x3270.bgp.nu/Build.html -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-31 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 3/30/20 9:49 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: I had a version of Forth on my 48K Sinclair Spectrum. Get one word wrong and back to the start! I had a Forth for z/VM in assembler source that I ran for a while ... Wrote several myself at various times, for 80x86, 68xxx, 80196, etc. -- Jack J

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-30 Thread Jack J. Woehr
. But as a scripting language to be coronated as "strategic" by IBM on legacy platforms, z and i, it's the best choice. Sez me, take that :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically int

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-30 Thread Jack J. Woehr
to expand the scope of those boxes. Been there, done that. But IBM is trying to help expand the walls of that particular golden cage by marking Python "strategic". Let's see if that makes a diff. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-30 Thread Jack J. Woehr
not going away. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-30 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 3/30/20 7:30 AM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: If you’re trying to decide which to learn, look at the community around each language and decide which one fits you better. Sound advice. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-30 Thread Jack J. Woehr
in IBM *nix environments (IBM i Pase & z/OS USS) is, in the immortal words of Joe Biden, a BFD :) On 3/30/20 6:15 AM, David Crayford wrote: On 2020-03-30 12:24 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: On 3/29/20 9:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python, Ruby is c

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 3/29/20 9:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python, Ruby is close to dead these days, whereas Python is growing by leaps and bounds. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
s you to flip out and delete it from your phone." -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. -

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
and sounder module support. Math, math, math but not about math. Supported by a huge, lively, and leading-edge user/developer community. You're going to love Python on z/OS. It's revolutionizing IBM i. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
The amusing part is I get no hits on hashtag #zOS ... where /are/ you all? :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 3/27/20 4:28 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: What's a nerd to do? LUA, Rexx or Python? Python. It's moving forward, great module support, easy syntax. There's no advantage to REXX anymore, as fine a language as it is. Python is taking over IBM i where I work. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science

Re: Nodejs

2020-03-24 Thread Jack J. Woehr
on Windows and talk to it ? -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: ZD forum/community

2020-03-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
/digestviewer -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Question on MQ on the Z/os

2020-03-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
an application running on a licensed installation. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Job Posting

2020-01-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 1/8/20 10:53 AM, ITschak Mugzach wrote: from wikipedia: 1908, Third National Bank and Fifth National Bank merged to become the Fifth-Third National Bank of Cincinnati; The fellow who came up with that name musta done so late at night when he was on his third 5th. -- Jack J. Woehr

Re: Interchange best practice?

2019-12-09 Thread Jack J. Woehr
? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way

Re: File I/O Metal C documentation error

2019-11-06 Thread Jack J. Woehr
standard C compiler, fopen() is there and documented everywhere. E.g., https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/Code/Standard_C_Library/Functions/fopen -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically int

Re: Another IBM Mainframe bites the dust

2019-10-02 Thread Jack J. Woehr
programmers in the IBM i community ... Not like you  have to learn new skills. Just new old skills :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine

z15 from IBM i perspective

2019-09-23 Thread Jack J. Woehr
https://common.inloop.com/en/article/110960 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: I see a need for general conversion of mappings was Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-21 Thread Jack J. Woehr
. An archaism of C that remains because old *nix programs use or used them. Legacy of the era of expensive RAM. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine

Re: x3270 on Mac Homebrew

2019-07-17 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 7/17/19 11:19 AM, Martin Packer wrote: Is anyone here in a position to encourage / facilitate Homebrew on Mac to move x3270 on from 3.6ga5 to 3.6ga8? Someone already did. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/42020 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge

Re: Handy U.S. gov site - Gregorian calendar with DOY

2019-06-05 Thread Jack J. Woehr
In Python, which runs in USS, I believe: |fromdatetime importdatetime day_of_year =datetime.now().timetuple().tm_yday| On 6/5/2019 7:39 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: Here is a tiny little Day of Year spreadsheet I did about 35 years ago -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body

Re: ads on Knowledge Center?

2019-06-02 Thread Jack J. Woehr
is economizing, it's to put the money where it really counts, e.g., into IBM Q <https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/>, which is the future. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the un

Re: z/OS specific commits (was: ... "awk" ...)

2019-05-14 Thread Jack J. Woehr
ource". Tom has the correct interpretation of the GPL. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. -

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
HERE!" Such constitutes the ONLY legitimate business case for introducing Outlook into the enterprise! -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine und

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-05 Thread Jack J. Woehr
https://www.bigendiansmalls.com/ -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Fwd: Quantum computing will break your encryption in a few years | Network World

2019-03-21 Thread Jack J. Woehr
And you can be part of it for free! :) https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/ On 3/21/2019 6:14 AM, Mark Regan wrote: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3373550/quantum-computing-will-break-your-encryption-in-a-few-years.html https://tinyurl.com/y4ddvsm2 -- Jack J. Woehr

Re: Can a JBOSS virus attack infect a mainframe?

2019-03-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
. https://www.bigendiansmalls.com/ -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Can a JBOSS virus attack infect a mainframe?

2019-03-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
source projects like JBoss are fairly rare and usually caught quickly. o Are you checking signatures correctly when you download and install stuff to make sure you have the real goods? -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com

Re: Red Hat (was Re: how many OSes run on IBMz)

2019-01-27 Thread Jack J. Woehr
the most fairly with the open source community, period. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Thanks For All the Fish

2018-12-12 Thread Jack J. Woehr
a concertina band, right? :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: SFTP between AIX to Mainframe

2018-12-12 Thread Jack J. Woehr
as character data and does ASCII/EBCDIC translation on it. You have to use SFTP on z/OS to transfer binary data. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine

Re: IBM sells software portfolio including Notes and Domino to HCL for $1.8b | ZDNet

2018-12-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 12/7/2018 9:59 AM, Dave Jones wrote: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-sells-software-portfolio-including-notes-and-domino-to-hcl-for-1-8b/ I think it's wonderful they got so much money for it. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com

SOLVED Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

2018-11-28 Thread Jack J. Woehr
IND$FILE clearly is short for *I* *N*eed to *D*ownload this *$*#!% *FILE* -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human

Re: Ask the experts about running things

2018-11-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/7/2018 10:51 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I does and it doesn't. No one could claim that z/OS was an initialism for zero-down-time operating system. All us francophones understand ... it ees seemply ze OS. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

Re: SCP of file to USS from Mac is corrupted

2018-10-18 Thread Jack J. Woehr
DIC conversion? SFTP does bin or character mode. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sa

Re: SCP of file to USS from Mac is corrupted

2018-10-18 Thread Jack J. Woehr
IBM i. You have to use SFTP which is OpenSSH-as-FTP, same security and key management as SCP, for binary xfers. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com

Re: z/OS PDF collection index file - Error disk not in drive?

2018-09-01 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 9/1/2018 12:57 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: I suspect something weird on my employer's PC but what is the question. Windows has a shared disk assigned but not available. Delete the share. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax

Re: FYI: IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages

2018-08-20 Thread Jack J. Woehr
s now." - Geertjan Wielenga, senior principal product manager at Oracle for NetBeans, InfoQ interview https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/netbeans-apache-update-aug18 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of s

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-16 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On July 16, 2018 at 3:23 PM Edward Gould wrote: I will have to find some other outlet. CHESS!! -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine

IBM i as JCL replacement (was: Rexx as JCL replacement)

2018-07-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 7/4/2018 11:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: JCL has numerous restrictions and inconsistencies due to antiquity, IBM i supports Cobol. Come on down :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating

Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with their web content?

2018-06-14 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 6/14/2018 8:53 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: ALL z/OS V2R1 CONTENT WAS REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET BY IBM!!  DO A GOOGLE SEARCH, AND NONE OF THE LINKS WORK!! Stop whining and buy a used Power8 and install IBM i 7.3, "What z/OS should have been and never was" :) -- Jack J. Woehr

Re: Walt Doherty - RIP

2018-05-25 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/25/2018 1:21 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: Father of economics of sub-second response time; wonderful SHARE/mainframe/computing contributor. Read that old paper and realized we've gone backwards from the mainframe ... as I wait for my JIRA ticket to load ... -- Jack J. Woehr # Science

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

2018-05-01 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 5/1/2018 11:55 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler. Or FORTH or m4 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe

Re: z/OS java development : off platform IDE

2018-04-23 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/23/2018 10:03 AM, John McKown wrote: especially with respect to doing development off-platform. Just mount them via NFS to your Linux development machine and use them in NetBeans that way. I'm a NetBeans user since the 1990's myself :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
do the regex inline in main() in which case you need no dtor, or put the flags instantiation inside the Regex Object. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
write the equivalent code on your home Linux box and it blows up there, too. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
it will "magically" start working. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. -

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/8/2018 1:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Thanks, but won't work well in the real code. I just meant as a debugging step. Make it work, then make it break again and you're home. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 4/8/2018 1:04 PM, Charles Mills wrote: It do. The error message is ABEND=S0C4 U REASON=0004. Try initializing the regex in the declaration instead of doing it in main() via pointer-to-reference; -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
? -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Waiting for IBM to step away from Laura Ingraham sponsorship

2018-04-01 Thread Jack J. Woehr
This IBM stockholder is waiting for IBM to step away from Laura Ingraham sponsorship. Apologies for inserting politics into the technical discussion, but see no other equally effective venue to express my disappoinment. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's

Historical recreation/restoration of original FORTH on the IBM 1130

2018-03-20 Thread Jack J. Woehr
http://rescue1130.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/historical-recreationrestoration-of.html -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human

Re: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language - DevOps.com

2018-02-21 Thread Jack J. Woehr
oc/source/whats_new.rst> What’s New? ** OpenCobolIDE is no longer maintained ** -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating

Re: So long and thanks for all the fish

2018-02-08 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 2/8/2018 5:01 AM, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote: The new owners didn't want to be in the fulfillment business so they're moving all Time Inc fulfillment activities to their current service provider I've found Time Magazine unfulfilling for a number of years already ... :) -- Jack J

Re: IBM Hardware Lifecycle list?

2018-02-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
om/surveys/RSH_Consulting__RACF_Survey_074__Age_RACF-L_Participants.pdf 80.7% over 50 extending into their 70's. That gives me hope. I'm on the "Work Until You Drop" retirement plan myself ... -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking,

Re: IBM Hardware Lifecycle list?

2018-02-06 Thread Jack J. Woehr
to service discontinuance, to people asking on IBM-MAIN for help with CECs that have been out of support for a decade or more ... :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.sof

Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS.

2018-01-14 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 1/14/2018 11:35 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: REXX doesn't have a goto Sure it does: SIGNAL -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding

Re: Interesting? Kotlin (JVM based language) interactive compile & run

2018-01-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
coding fun is reticence. If nothing less orthodox appeals to one, LE C/C++ is very nicely done. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding

Re: Interesting? Kotlin (JVM based language) interactive compile & run

2018-01-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 1/13/2018 4:04 PM, John McKown wrote: Well, given the responses to my thread on "z/OS and C", I'd say that "something better" is desired. It's called Go. https://golang.org/ -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~j

Re: IBM ZD

2018-01-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
that comes with it but no z/VM? -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. -

Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS.

2018-01-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 1/13/2018 1:53 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: My experience is: C++ is VERY unsafe, because memory leaks are omnipresent with C++. I would respectfully disagree with that statement Me, too. My experience is: Weak programmers can make BASIC and LOGO leak memory :) -- Jack J. Woehr

Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS.

2018-01-12 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 1/12/2018 3:05 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: To really "B Sharp", call it "C Sharp" like the folks at Microsoft. B Sharp is C :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interr

Re: "make" question

2017-12-14 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 12/14/2017 7:25 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote: All the make tools share an annoying reliance on tab characters. This is somehow more pernicious than punch-card-column dependencies in traditional IBM tools? :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-30 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 11/30/2017 8:07 AM, William Donzelli wrote: This poor mangled quote... Watson was specifically referring to one specific model of machine, not computers in general. I never let truth get in the way of a good story! :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's

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