Doctor's Appointment at 9 am

2014-09-12 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Sorry for the late notice but they sprung this one on me yesterday afternoon. I need to have an EKG done before starting PT on my knee. I’ll be leaving at 8:30 but should not be gone too long. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group

Re: Doctor's Appointment at 9 am

2014-09-12 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
. Or, as happens _often_ at this place, it was sent to the wrong email address. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Leopold Strauss leopold.stra...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: And who should be interested in that in this forum ??? On 12.09.2014 14:21, Shiminsky, Gary wrote: Sorry for the late notice

Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows

2014-03-26 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Goodby WinXT, hello Linux! Too bad IBM dumped OS/2. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of

Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows

2014-03-26 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Many developers who had used OS/2 offered to rewrite any non-IBM code that was in OS/2 so IBM could at least release it as open source. IBM declined. As we all know IBM has been very good at shooting itself in the foot over the years (multiple times). There is one vendor that still sells OS/2

Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems

2014-03-17 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Hi, If my memory serves me right, back in the 1970s there was OS/MFT, OS/MVT, OS/VS1, and OS/VS2. OS/VS2 morphed to OS/SVS and then OS/MVS(? Or maybe just MVS) starting in the 1980s. I worked on OS/VS1 Rel 7 back in the 79-80 time frame. I didn¹t get back to MVS till the mid 90¹s. Gary Gary

Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché

2013-07-25 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
When I was in the Army and stationed in Korea in the early 70 due to a payroll error I had to get advances. Then they started taking the advances out of my pay before they even fixed the problem making matters worst. COBOL is not at fault in this issue. It is incompetence. It is poor

Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché

2013-07-25 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Seems like what the bugs you experienced back then were more related to hardware malfunctions than actual programming errors. When I was in the Army in Korea we ran on Univac 1004 card processors. Occasionally the program card decks would would have problems due to wear and tear from going

Re: Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)

2012-08-20 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Try this link (it was posted earlier in this thread) http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf It's the 10th Edition from the early nineties. I have a printed version since the early nineties. I have not found any later edition. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe