Re: Equivalent of TSOLIB for batch

Or please provide references to docs, articles etc. that could explain it to the rest of us. Thanks An ignorant STEPLIB user mkk On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:32:59 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Jim, >Why is "STEPLIB" dangerous? >Please explain in detail. > >Thanks and regards, >David > > >On

Re: Why can't a LinuxOne run z/OS

In the famous words of Michael Corleone - it's not personal, it's strictly business. mkk On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:11:23 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >W dniu 09.06.2023 o 01:33, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw pisze: >> Can someone please explain what IBM have done on the LinuxOne machines to >> stop

Re: z/OS 3.1: Now UNIXR Certified

zCX has been out there for a few years now, how much is it being used for real work? Has is really taken business away from other platforms? Unless that happens it will just be another technical curiosity. mkk On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 11:33:12 +, kekronbekron wrote: >> I think K8s is the USS

Re: z/OS 3.1: Now UNIXR Certified

FSF and Linux can reasonably be ignored in this discussion but was there a time when Unix System Services (of z/OS or OS/390) was competitor to other platforms that claimed to be UNIX? How many third party apps were available / supported / marketed for USS as against AIX, HPUX or Solaris? How

Re: Announcement Letters

Reminds me of someone's email signature from a long time ago which went something like: "No trees were cut down in sending this message but a large number of electrons were seriously inconvenienced." mkk On Wed, 17 May 2023 19:00:10 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Wait, "improve life on the

Re: IBM announcement letter summary

But Bill definitely does and almost makes up for IBM's failing with his abundant enthusiasm ! On Tue, 9 May 2023 12:21:03 -0500, John McKown wrote: >IMO, IBM doesn't really care about that much about z anymore. mkk PS: Not Friday yet but it's the hump-day so are almost there :)

Re: Currency format suggestions, please?

BTW Rudyard Kipling named his house "naulakha" may be because it cost him 9 lakhs to build it. As for Indians using base 10 system for numbers, keep in mind that this system was invented there. mkk On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:53:13 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: >For pairs of digits, I was

Re: I want to cry

At least they listened to the esteemed professor with respect to teaching it ... and it looks like he didn't say anything about coding in it :) MKK On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 19:42:12 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: >Well, Dijkstra [in]famously said “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its >teaching

Re: Origin of the name of sample programs DSNTEP2/4?

A long time ago I wrote a cobol equivalent because the site didn't have a PL/I compiler and the program was distributed in source only. Lacking the necessary naming expertise I simply called it CSNTEP2 with the first character indicating the language used :). It might still be available at IDUG

Re: Introducing IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS

Agreed, it's not worth trying to figure out IBM-think. There is probably some IBM executive telling his subordinates in a serious Michael Corleone tone "That's what I want them to think.". Hey, it's Friday and a Godfather quote is never out of place :) mkk On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:02:25 +,

Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX")

I guess the yearning is for something like Persian which mostly disregards gender. Its third person singular pronoun "oo" ( pronounced like too without t) covers he, she and it. It even uses borrowed Arabic words, which are gender specific in the original, for all genders. MKK On Thu, 9

Re: IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC

Gabe, With freedom of religion guaranteed in this country, you have no business criticizing what or who Bill chooses to worship. Regards MKK On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 16:29:48 -0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote: >I don't have a dog in this ridiculous fight -- though I've also lived a career >based on IBM

Re: Trouble getting new mainframe staff?

I had a manager who would say "Enough of politics, time to switch to religion" on such occasions. mkk On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:14:04 +, Eric D Rossman wrote: >Enough Bill. Why are we allowing politics on the list? > >Don't we have any moderators? > >Eric Rossman, CISSP

Re: looking for 'how to' developing Rexx host command

Not just alive ... it's mutating. I have a coworker who is named ComeTron! mkk On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:52:10 +, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: >So Tron is alive! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Mainframe Update: The death of the mainframe has been grossly exaggerated! | Mainframe Update

Why not ... The One True Platform (TM) has a lot of life left in it :) MKK On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:48:01 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >I’ve been laughing for 30 years at the people who said the mainframe was >dying. 30 years from now, it will still be processing most of the important

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

Well, it's the same people who changed "DB2" to "Db2" very likely spending small fortune probably because that's the change that customers needed most. It's good to be a king :) MKK On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:43:19 -0500, zMan wrote: >WTF is a WAZI, beyond what Urban Dictionary suggests: >

Re: Coding for the future

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:25:40 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > Rocket and IBM don't see any value in integrating >ported tools with TSO as it's not strategic. The main focus is on >containers. Is it zCX containers that run Linux workloads or something else? MKK

Re: OT: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

Once the argument over who has what powers became really hot :) MKK On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 08:04:37 -0500, Joe Monk wrote: >"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand." > >It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the >federal government has

Re: git with it

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 13:33:58 +, Henri Kuiper wrote: >;) > >Sent from my wireless iPhone > Is there a wired version as well !? :) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Endianness and bit numbering Was RE: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

That's only partly true. Of the three such languages that I'm familiar with, they all write the numbers so that higher order digits are to the left of lower order digits but not all of them read in left to right order. One of them reads the numbers right to left i.e. units tens hundreds order.

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

USS is definitely an integral part of z/OS so it's a legitimate mainframe hack. However if more of the hacks are occurring via USS it does raise questions about its quality from security perspective compared to the "classic" MVS side of the mainframe. Buffer overruns are probably the most

Re: Peter Frampton and IBM

That does explain a lot although too late for those who have been infected :) On Wed, 1 May 2019 21:22:19 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >TIL that he's suffering from IBM: inclusion body myositis, a degenerative >disease that causes muscles to weaken over time but >generally does not affect

Re: AMODE 32

No, no, no, he is NOT trying to solve or prove anything. He is merely trying to save the world just like his namesake from around 2000 years ago. History is repeating itself again in that he is not having much success with his contemporaries. Neither the ordinary folks (IBM-MAINers) nor the

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

Calligraphic styles in Arabic (and other languages using the Arabic script) are more akin to fonts in western scripts. Letters do change shapes based on the context i.e. standing alone, at the beginning, middle or end of a word but that's nothing like upper / lower case. Shape of a letter does

Re: IBM Z and cloud

This is not new for them either. Remember when all their hardware products had become "server"s or "z/OS is UNIX" or "COBOL now has object oriented features". Not sure how many customers bought their hardware because it was a "server" or how many bought z machine for their UNIX applications. As

Re: IBM Z and cloud

May be Ginny & friends don't want to be left out of all this cool cloud talk at the parties, so they made the claim. It's not like that there is a Cloud(TM) certifying authority that will shut them up :). Service bureaus were surely very much like clouds but were not called clouds and there are

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

I use XODO app on my Android tablet which allows annotating pdfs, price is $0. Mohammad On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:25:52 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >​Thanks, I'll look at that. > >Not bad. It costs some money, but I don't know if I'm willing to pay >$15/month for

Re: Db2! was: NODE.js for z/OS

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 20:30:21 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >Why DB2 has so many address spaces is probably because of the IMS heritage. >Other (simpler but equally effective DBMS) manage on a single address >spaceI wish... > I believe this was due to the size

Re: Db2! was: NODE.js for z/OS

On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:04:45 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 31/10/2017 8:34 PM, John McKown wrote: > >What genius at IBM decided it was a good idea to re-brand DB2 to Db2? >We've got loads of documentation that references DB2. Should we spend >time and money changing our

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:36:46 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Although Arabic word writing is right to left, numbers are written left to >right. It appears so but that not the case, since the numbers are read in unit - tens - hundreds order the writing follows

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

>Mohammad, I’m confused. You said: >>In Arabic while writing from right to left 345 is written exactly in that >>order and it's read "five forty three hundred". >I’m trying to understand. Given the number 345. You’re writing a series of >letters, starting with A (yes, of course it’s not an >A,

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:04:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >How would you enter that number in a bilingual editor/word processor? Which >digit would you press first? > >I once had Google translate a short sentence to Arabic. I was puzzled >to see the period on the right.

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:11:44 -0600, John McKown wrote: >This is more a Friday type topic. But I'm curious about why the original >designers of the S/360 went with "big endian" instead of "small endian"? >The _only_ reason that I can think of is because our

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

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:07:02 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: To me, one of the biggest pluses is the hardware memory key. As now used by z/OS, it really helps with reliability because, properly used, it enforces separation of authority (ability to write) by major OS subsystem.

Re: web: Buffett Adds to IBM Stake as Rometty Shifts Big Blue to Cloud - Bloomberg B ...

Unless he has become a technology expert he seems be out of his circle of competence here. Then again he probably won't even miss that money if it all goes down the drain. Mohammad On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:50:58 -0500, Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com wrote: Someone still has hope ... or faith.

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

I hope the updated JZOS Cookbook would have some samples exploiting these features. Are there any samples available anywhere as of now ? Mohammad On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:48:38 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: There has for some time been a package in JZOS (in the SDK) named

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

Exactly ... with more options at their disposal programmers can do interesting things. Unfortunately we do not inhabit the free world of Linux and have to live by what the Central Committee decides and the local bosses permit :) MQSEND works fine but does have a limit on the size of the

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

answers to make your (work) life easier (and deliver results); in the end it is your decision which way to go. On 10 April 2014 06:19, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Mohammad Khan writes: Nice argument and something not unexpected of a salesman. Now it's (inaccurate) ad

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:10:06 +0800, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: You've listed three arguments. The first argument is that *you* won't be using all the features a major transaction manager offers. To which I'd reply that almost nobody uses all those features for any particular,

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

Does this option provide transactional integrity the two resource managers ( DB2 and MQ ) ? I mean if there a problem with any one component the updates in both will be backed out. My current Java code is able to write to both and as long as nothing goes wrong it's all fine. Unfortunately it's

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

I'm not using z/OS Batch Runtime rather it's a plain vanilla batch job using JZOS to run Java code. My reasons for not using a transaction manager are as follows: - The process is pretty simple and does not need all the features they offer. - I hoped that I would be able to use RRS to

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

Hi Denis, Thanks for your response. I'm not trying to write my own transaction manager rather I'm hoping to use RRS in that role, after all RRS is already being used for DB2 access. Now if Java does not provide any means of using RRS to coordinate multiple resources I guess I'm out of luck.

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

- From: Mohammad Khan mkkha...@hotmail.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, Apr 2, 2014 4:11 pm Subject: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS I have a batch program that runs under JZOS ( on z/OS 1.13 ) which connects to DB2 using jdbc type 2 connection and connects to a local MQ

Re: Using DB2 and MQ under JZOS

I may be trying to push the envelop but RRS attach is already being used for connecting to DB2 as shown by the plan name used by the thread in our db2 monitor. Now if I could only coax it ( ! ) to recognize MQ as well. On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 04:33:44 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com