Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 13:35:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Of course, OpenStack is the new replacement for zManager H http://www.zmanager.org/ Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
On 6/10/2013 2:10 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 13:35:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Of course, OpenStack is the new replacement for zManager H http://www.zmanager.org/ I didn't sign up for that but it looks cool! This one is more pertinent

Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
Interesting that VMWare don't see Openstack as an option (competitor) for the enterprise, despite them also investing in it. quote “Where is OpenStack, we believe, going to be adopted?” Gelsinger said. “We don’t see it having great success coming into the enterprise Might depend on their (and

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
On 6/10/2013 2:56 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: Interesting that VMWare don't see Openstack as an option (competitor) for the enterprise, despite them also investing in it. quote VMware invest in rockstar developers and do very well from it. GoPivitol must be the biggest startup in history. The

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 15:04:44 +0800, David Crayford wrote: The word is that OpenStack is years behind similar technology used by the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, Google. I dropped in on VMWorld on the way back from Share - bit of an eye-opener from (at least) an attendance perspective. VMWare

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
On 6/10/2013 3:30 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 15:04:44 +0800, David Crayford wrote: The word is that OpenStack is years behind similar technology used by the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, Google. I dropped in on VMWorld on the way back from Share - bit of an eye-opener from (at

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread zMan
Seriously, why would you say that? Because it's open source? Because it's Python? On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:53 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/10/2013 9:31 AM, Ed Gould wrote: While gaining real-world skills, students will be introduced to the vital role that the

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
I was having a moment of mirth wrt recent discussions about open source. It seems it's not trusted in the z/OS world. On 6 Oct 2013, at 10:19 pm, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, why would you say that? Because it's open source? Because it's Python? On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread John Gilmore
Some part of David Crayford's problem here is that he does not talk like---and almost certainly does not want to talk like---a mainframer. I am reminded of the verses in the Book of Judges: 12, 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of

IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-06 Thread Ed Gould
http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in-india- than-us/ This reminds me of the comic strip Pogo: I have seen the enemy and he is us (or word to that effect). ED -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-06 Thread Mike Liberatore
The Chief Extortion Officer wants a bigger bonus ! --Original Message-- From: Ed Gould Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: IBM now employs more workers in India than US Sent: Oct 6, 2013 11:59 AM

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread Mark Post
On 10/6/2013 at 03:04 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: The word is that OpenStack is years behind similar technology used by the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, Google. You might want to leave Rackspace out of this list, since they and NASA are the two original creators of

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8755627167295105.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/03/2013 at 07:31 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au said: Every employment contract I've seen includes ownership of code developed - and isn't limited to the employment duration. I've redlined such contracts, and management

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 524a5bcb.1090...@gmail.com, on 10/01/2013 at 01:21 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: I would have to humbly disagree. Pascals type system alone is far superior. The original Pascal type system was an abomination; it was only after the ISO dealt with conformant array parameters

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9344222173527866.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/03/2013 at 11:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: A while back, on TSO-REXX, I advocated labelling END statements to take advantage of the processor's enforcing that they match the DOs, and complained that the

Re: OT - Internet App Outages

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 005701cec0e0$eaf5d5f0$c0e181d0$@mxg.com, on 10/04/2013 at 04:05 AM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com said: I had an Earthlink dial up account My condolences. their technical support (up 3 levels) denied that Eartlink used modems. That may be characteristic of large corporations in general

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1444041293790651.wa.sachapmanaep@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2013 at 07:40 AM, Scott Chapman sachap...@aep.com said: If you're developing in ISPF on a 24x80 screen It never ceases to amaze me that there are companies using 24x80 decades after it was obsolete. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: OT? A cause to join, but somewhat humorous

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0d4e01cec127$9e8e6320$dbab2960$@mcn.org, on 10/04/2013 at 10:31 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: It is easy to write UCS-2 or UTF-16 or whatever it is called UCS-2 is called UCS-2 and UTF-16 is called UTF-16; they are not the same. All you are doing with UCS-2 is making it harder

Re: Multiple datasets with same name on APF list !

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cahtvvrwh_saoe-smy4ekmxgofqwfv5p4coyazdsl_tbr0dp...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/05/2013 at 02:33 AM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com said: Yes, you can have SMS and NON sms togethter in a APF list. System just needs those modules to run in supervisory state... No it doesn't. --

Re: OT? A cause to join, but somewhat humorous

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8709724825739848.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2013 at 06:29 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Should the OS or filesystem treat files named ÿ and as equivalent; allow either to be referred to by the other name, and prohibit the occurrence of both in a

Re: OT? A cause to join, but somewhat humorous

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdhf4ureg-jxlb9kgsqqvcoejk+hvnt0a_mmsohzzck...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/04/2013 at 03:47 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: What I have sensed in a number of posts You have a record of sensing things that are not there. a mixture of anglophone bigotry and anglophone

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFO-8tq3+5fPzo0ijKZrN+9oeZFVDA8D9FGmgyqfs8y=gtg...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/04/2013 at 07:50 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: pedanticNot to be confused with the language PL/I. In what year? The name progressed from NPL, MPPL, PL/1 and finally PL/I. See, e.g., C20-1632, An Introduction

Re: OT? A cause to join, but somewhat humorous

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0e4c01cec161$64a4bf30$2dee3d90$@mcn.org, on 10/04/2013 at 05:25 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: What is an example of a name that is not valid UTF-8? An octet stream that does not conform to RFC 3629 or to the ISO/IEC 10646 documents on which it is based, e.g., C0 80. Should that

Re: OT? A cause to join, but somewhat humorous

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDEKy=oi=3cyuqkjkfkokkue-kcuun9arhfeeobdzge...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/04/2013 at 09:57 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Systematic misunderstanding is a tedious rhetorical device. Then cease engaging in it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 006101ceb8b8$8fd70610$af851230$@mcn.org, on 09/23/2013 at 04:56 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Unicode is not a character set Sure it is. If it's UTF- UTF-8 is a transform, not a character set, even though you can specify it in charset for MIME. If it's UTF-16 or UCS-2 you can

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes: http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in-india- than-us/ This reminds me of the comic strip Pogo: I have seen the enemy and he is us (or word to that effect). there were similar news from spring of 2012 ... and at the time had

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-06 Thread zMan
*shrug* not the official name, certainly not current. But you *were* talking Multics era, so arguably OK. Hey, I *said* I was being pedantic... On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread zMan
Speaking of not talking like a mainframer... On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Some part of David Crayford's problem here is that he does not talk like---and almost certainly does not want to talk like---a mainframer. I am reminded of the verses in the

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread zMan
Damnit, meant to add grin On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:21 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of not talking like a mainframer... On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Some part of David Crayford's problem here is that he does not talk like---and

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:09:59 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: A while back, on TSO-REXX, I advocated labelling END statements to take advantage of the processor's enforcing that they match the DOs, and complained that the processor ignores some mismatches. Did you open an ETR? That

Performanxe Of BPX1GHN (WAS NSLOOKUP MVS vs OMVS)

2013-10-06 Thread esst...@juno.com
I was reading the thread regarding NSLOOKUP (MVS VS OMVS), and it reminded me of an issue I had about a year ago. I was reading a list of Host Names And Used BPX1GHN to get the associated ip-address. I would load BPX1GHN on the first invocation and call BPX1GHN. Subsequent invocations would

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#36 Quote on Slashdot.org http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#38 Quote on Slashdot.org http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#41 Quote on Slashdot.org multics (5th flr, 545 tech sq) also managed to ship the first relational DBMS product.

Re: IBM now employs more workers in India than US

2013-10-06 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-10-06 17:59, Ed Gould pisze: http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in-india-than-us/ This reminds me of the comic strip Pogo: I have seen the enemy and he is us (or word to that effect). Well, India is bigger than US, isn't it? I mean population. AFAIK Asia

Re: Performanxe Of BPX1GHN (WAS NSLOOKUP MVS vs OMVS)

2013-10-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Some have written and run a program. Runs at IPL and issues a LOAD for various programs, then ends. Actual use never decrements the count to zero, so it is never unloaded. On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, esst...@juno.com esst...@juno.com wrote: I was reading the thread regarding NSLOOKUP (MVS

Re: Embedded two-byte representations of marked alphabetic characters in SBCSs

2013-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdgxkrggeu-eagir+c1acst2qre0v9rbof3b3non3y+...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/05/2013 at 05:20 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 What you sent as an extract from my text arrived as He had Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 A Montréal,

Re: No XCFAS ENQ seen on a LNKLST dataset - Confusing !

2013-10-06 Thread Peter Relson
We found the problem . Prior to the last IPL , a 'SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE' was added to the automation startup script and the command was IPL'ed and nobody was aware of it ... I'm glad that you found it. The LNKLST UNALLOCATE function (whether by SETPROG, or in a PROGxx) is the only reason,

Re: Announcing the 2013 Master the Mainframe contest

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
I know I probably don't belong in such elite company as the doyens of this list. My parents were poor, simple folks who couldn't afford to send me to a good school to learn Latin. On 06/10/2013, at 11:42 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Some part of David Crayford's problem here is

Re: Performanxe Of BPX1GHN (WAS NSLOOKUP MVS vs OMVS)

2013-10-06 Thread Jon Perryman
I suggest looking at the name servers you are using and the quality of those name servers. Try using the one in use by PC's on your network to see if that helps.  Name servers work in a tree like structure. By that, I mean the name server queries other name servers and those query more name

OpenStack (and the 2013 Master the Mainframe Contest)

2013-10-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
David Crayford opines: I can't see OpenStack ever taking off on the mainframe. It's open source software written in the Python programming language. Who on earth is going to risk their job using something like that? Linux is extremely highly successful open source software, and so is the Apache

Re: Performanxe Of BPX1GHN (WAS NSLOOKUP MVS vs OMVS)

2013-10-06 Thread John McKown
Is there a decent caching-only name server for z/OS? I run nscd on Linux to cache my name lookups. I am currently running the RESOLVER proc on z/OS. It points to a Windows WINS server. But, for some reason, most of the jobs on z/OS have hard coded IP addresses in them. I don't know why. On Sun,

Re: OpenStack (and the 2013 Master the Mainframe Contest)

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
I was being sarcastic Timothy! I thought that was obvious but in future I will remember to use a smiley or use sarcasm tags. I do know a thing or two about open source on z/OS. On 7/10/2013 9:34 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford opines: I can't see OpenStack ever taking off on the

Re: Performanxe Of BPX1GHN (WAS NSLOOKUP MVS vs OMVS)

2013-10-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 6 October 2013 15:10, esst...@juno.com esst...@juno.com wrote: I would load BPX1GHN on the first invocation and call BPX1GHN. Subsequent invocations would bypass the LOAD and issue the CALL directly without issuing another LOAD for BPX1GHN (see code sniper below). Whatever your