World’s largest computer outage!

2024-07-21 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
This retired microsoft programmer has some interesting observations about the CrowdStrike bug - Daves Garage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

World’s largest computer outing! - Plan B

2024-07-19 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
This reminded me of Danny Hillis's discussion about how we need a plan B for the Internet: https://youtu.be/2K6WN3LBHiw?si=R1-dBlYzdZRwCvSr -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Beagle Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

DFSort Report question - SYMNAMES DD ?

2024-04-22 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Can you set up a constant in the SYMNAMES DD to do that ? Or is that for different functions ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DFSort Report question Does any

Re: allowed characters in member name

2024-01-05 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
We have a PDSE with member names starting with a left paren which were created with some old software. I am unable to create such members in ISPF edit or to copy them with IEBCOPY. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: Friday,

60 US credit unions offline after cloud ransomware infection • The Register

2023-12-03 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Is it possible that this processing used to be done on an IBM mainframe and was "modernized" ? https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/02/ransomware_infection_credit_unions/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instr

Where to Draw the Line - Please stay on-topic

2023-10-17 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
isnt it possible to go too far in enforcing the rules ? perhaps the rules should allow for a reasonable amount of side discussion as might happen in an office ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Darren Evans-Young Sent: Monday, October 09, 2023 8:

Thank You IBM-MAIN

2023-05-03 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Id like to thank IBM-MAIN for all the interesting discussions and things that I have learned .. I am but a poor and humble COBOL programmer . Most of the discussions are over my head but I have learned a lot and enjoy reading the posts. Thanks ! :-) --

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

2022-06-08 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Yes but we arent Romans so I think its acceptable to use data for a single piece of data. If enough people use a word incorectly doesnt it become acceptable? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2022 6:36 AM To: I

Plan B for the Internet - Re: IBM Knowledge Center down?

2022-01-21 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
This reminds me of the TED talk by Danny Hillis (who is from Baltimore) https://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_the_internet_could_crash_we_need_a_plan_b -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of René Jansen Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@

JCL IF-THEN-ELSE-ENDIF Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-06 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Its funny you should mention that now. I was just working on some JCL and I had just assumed that I could set symbolics using IF THEN ELSE ENDIF: // IF (STEP1.RC = 0) THEN // SYMB=GOOD // ELSE // SYMB=BAD // ENDIF but I found out that BOTH SET statements are executed no matter what the retur

Re: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2021-12-21 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
n separate files but not have to mention them on the awk command line (multiple "-f" parameters and file names on the awk command line does effectively the same thing as the concatenated DD I use). HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Beh

Re: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2021-12-21 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
OMG I got it to work !! Thank you very much !! Why did your JCL have so many members in the SCRIPT DD ? I put member in with a simple AWK program . -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 10:46 AM To:

Re: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2021-12-19 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
sion List On Behalf Of Nash, Jonathan S. Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS Id rather have easy access to AWK than python :-) On the zos side without any USS involvement.. --

Get a Computer JOB ! - Re: The Great Resignation

2021-12-19 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Back in the late 90s whenever I got a telemarketing call I used to try to convince the caller to go get trained for some kind of computer job. I used to tell them how the job market was great due to the Y2K problem. If nothing else I kept them on the phone for a longer time so that they werent

AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2021-12-19 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Id rather have easy access to AWK than python :-) On the zos side without any USS involvement.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 10:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Top 8 Reason

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe Modernization

2021-10-21 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Some goverment agencies are replacing their mainframe COBOL with java. I dont see a payoff. I think this is driven by contracting companies who will make money off the conversion and managers who do not know anything about programming languages but read somewhere that COBOL is out of date. Many

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-07 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Philip Young “Soldier of Fortran” Mainframe hacker videos from 6 years ago :-( https://youtu.be/Xfl4spvM5DI https://youtu.be/vyHAqxCkf-k There are other Def con etc mainframe hacker videos out there ... Kinda makes me nervous... ---

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-18 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Once I learned of the IF/THEN statements for JCL I never used COND= again. IF/THEN is much easier to use and to explain to new people. I have seen many people code COND statements incorrectly because they did not acually understand how they worked. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: COBOL ? Re: SORT selection question

2020-09-17 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Im sorry I was joking about AWK and especially SED thought there are people who would do it :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: COBOL ? Re:

COBOL ? Re: SORT selection question

2020-09-16 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Why not just write a small program ? COBOL ? AWK ? :-) SED :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Barry Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 6:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: SORT selection question With DFSORT/SYNCS

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SSN values (was Here we go again)

2020-04-21 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Didnt they stop using the first 3 digits to indicate the location of the person getting the SSN a while back ? If we run out we could just start using alpha characters in with the numeric :-) How about base 64 SSN numbers ? :-) (my opinion only not my employers) -Original Message- Fr

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Job abend with S722

2019-07-05 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
When I have this problem I write the big DD to a file with a large space allocation... Is that an option in your situation ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Friday, July 05, 2019 9:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT

Re: [EXTERNAL] DISA STIG and permission/audit bits

2018-09-26 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Dont sys admins usually write a shell script that sets premissions with chmod or something like that ? Do you guys have a guy who is good with shell scripts ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Larre Shiller Sent: Wed

IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware (nextgov.com)

2018-04-19 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware By Aaron Boyd and Frank Konkel April 19, 2018 06:02 PM https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/ Congress and watchdogs have been warning the IRS to upgrade