I very much agree.
Getting people to write batch COBOL, itself wasn't the problem. CICS
conversational stuff, DB2 interfacing were issues. Exploiting new functions,
JCL coding, job scheduling, resource/performance management, maintaining file
health, not writing nice loops, and much more, was
I think a lot of this was based on 'the mainframe is going away'. Companies
didn't invest in training for mainframe people to use modern mainframe because
'the mainframe is going away.' The years passed and the mainframe did not go
away.
If the mainframe is going away and not the system of
They can use whatever logo they want, and whatever representation of their name
they want. However, we still get to mock them and decide to do business with
them. And their indecision on picking a clear name.
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Schuffenhauer, Mark
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I remember all the hype, it really freaked people out. I know people who quit
work, liquidated everything and went off grid. Many non-technical people were
very concerned it was the end. Minor non-y2k issues during the first few days
were blown out of proportion. Probably because of the
For my y2k night, we were expected to be onsite, at the place I worked then.
We had made lists, checked everything twice. Lot's of hours to prepare, it
felt like a marathon with the finish line in sight.
That morning, I started to feel tired and run down, I took a nap in the
afternoon and
I find it easiest to do it under PGM=IKJEFT01
Under a user who has admin authority, presuming RACF is setup correctly in
ISPF with the commands.
ALU User1234 RESUME
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Tony Harminc
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Because there are holes in the CUPS theory.
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What about CUPS?
That question just
Right and when the shoe store started the 'no returns' policy.
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Jesse 1 Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:32 PM
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Subject: Re: IBM SR going away?
Since that gadget disappeared from shoe
>From an secure infrastructure view
You can do everything right and have it go wrong.
You can do everything wrong and never have an issue.
Going forward, how do we make everything secure enough so a user writing down a
password on a screen Post-it note, doesn't matter? I believe we have
My sales favorite was knowing key functionality is vaporware, talking up
everything the software would do some day. Then being horrified when you
realize the 'decision makers' are eating it up. None of them ends up in hell
when the product doesn't work and the functionality delivery date keeps
There is a lot of security out there, if you're permitted to use it. TCPIP did
not make the mainframe less safe, other things using TCPIP did, especially when
we moved most authentication off the mainframe.
"Let the servers do anything they want!" "A, no."
The pen tester found stupid
You have not punched cards, until you've punched them in the original Klingon.
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Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 11:37 AM
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When I was first working we had IBM folks in our building, every day, with
their own desks. Opening a ticket involved talking to their desk and
explaining. Amazingly someone would often call as soon as I got back to my
desk, sometimes even before. The PMR's often were already opened. I
Well manually, no. I can think of two tools that can do it on the fly, SRS and
STOPX37, but they also tailor the index extent size, unless it's RRDS. A VSAM
file is really two space allocations, one for the DATA portion and one for the
INDEX portion.
Alter would only work if the file is
There is required maintenance.
https://support.ca.com/phpdocs/0/MSPSaccount/COMPAT/ACF.HTML#IN62_ACF160_PTFLIST
CA ACF2 16.0
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codes can potentially appear for any NFS Client
or NFS
Server module.
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>From: Schuffenhauer, Mark
>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:29 PM
>
>United States Ship?
>
> I had never thought USS was not Unix System Services. I did VTAM work for
> many years, so I w
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Schuffenhauer, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:29 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: OpenSSH / Ported Tools / Co:Z
United States Ship?
I had never thought USS was not Unix System Services. I
United States Ship?
I had never thought USS was not Unix System Services. I did VTAM work for
many years, so I was familiar with USS as Unformatted System Services, (which
you can find in an IBM manual).
Unix System Services is not in an IBM manual, which I disbelieved and had to do
some
They still use bayonet bases for 12 volt lighting. I have also seen interior
12 volt lighting with bayonet bases. Either way, screw-in or bayonet, trying
to separate components sucks, when it's all rusted together, and you need
trailer lights NOW!
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I used to spend my time counting cycles, now I spend my time clocking psychos?
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 2:23 PM
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Subject: Re: instruction clock speed
EXEC2? What
I used to work with this. We had a nightly batch job after SMF processing
that ran, which ran rather interesting program PGM=E2000. The BMC Mainview
products had a license file in order to run on the mainframe and create the
extract, so it must be somewhere. It was the Universal Information
What you call it is the marketing, what something actually does is the reality.
Never mix the two up.
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 9:33 AM
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Subject: Re: The 200 year old
Apparently, their heads are not in the clouds...
To develop and actually test a DR plan, great. And finally be successful, but
it becomes such a hassle to retest, and then justification it should just work
because everything is "active-active", great.
So what you built for failover sits...
Wayne,
Does your company or the same company do the z/OS on all the sites you
mentioned?
I think we should have mean the SCEERUN library, from the LINKLIST that
contains the LE modules. Since CEEBINIT is the module indicated, there could
be, a custom module in another library in the link
Or just STEPLIB/JOBLIB to the library with the module, if you have access to it.
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David Spiegel
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 8:36 AM
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Subject: Re: Generic query on Region allocation
APL was miserable on the QWERTY card punch.
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Gibney, Dave
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 5:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue
multitasking issue)
It says REGION=512M to scan up to 100 modules. How many modules are you
scanning? Does it work with 10 modules, or 1?
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Wayne Bickerdike
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 1:29 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re:
Depends on if they have server experience beyond Windows, then there can be a
frame of reference. Otherwise, I prefer to use an example based on playing
multi-player console/PC games. You can go local or remote, it doesn't matter,
but how can one box have 4 people play at once? How can the
>From working 30 years on systems to development projects and just about
>anything that needed to be done, I can see when open office can work. I can
>see when it would have helped with productivity. Usually projects doing
>something new and quite fast. The caveat is, with the right people
About all I can add is, I started to work with IND$FILE in 1987. And the
associated fun things, like LU6.2 connections to PS/2's, PC/3270 and so on. I
remember calling it Independent File Transfer. At the time it was cool, but
so was Token Ring.
It was fine until someone wanted a big
"Okay what are the desired results? I will get you a survey to show that as
long as no one looks past the headline."
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Smith, Nathan (ATLANTA, GA)
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 12:16 PM
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My thought is simply, license keys make it easier (but not always 100%) to
protect the intellectual property that belongs to the owner. It in most cases
prevents the expense of having to resort to investigation and litigation of
something.
I think its great Tony takes the time to properly
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