Re: z114 and z/OS 2.3

2019-04-09 Thread Mark Post
On 4/7/19 9:53 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > Does VM simulate those instructions that are found in the virtual guest > environment but not on the real hardware? No. -snip- > Might VM also "up-simulate" in some circumstance

SUSE Documentation on the web

2019-09-04 Thread Mark Post
lems. In particular, if you find: * Dead links in the navigation * Dead links between documents * Missing documents please let us know so we can get the problem corrected. Thanks, Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Containers, Linux, and IBM Z, oh my

2021-04-26 Thread Mark Post
to derive value from it. The details on what will be included are in Mike Friesenegger's blog posting at https://www.suse.com/c/bringing-rancher-value-to-ibm-z-and-linuxone/ SUSE will be making further announcements about this in the future, so please say tun

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 is now GA

2021-06-22 Thread Mark Post
anges made in this release. Reading the release notes would be advisable. And not just the IBM Z specific parts, but all of them. As those who know me can attest, I am *not* above saying "I told you so" as appropriate. ;) https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/s390x/SUSE-SLES/15-S

SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update (QU1) released

2021-10-26 Thread Mark Post
ia. That means to perform a brand new installation, you'll need to either access the SUSE repositories for all the packages that have not been updated, or a local mirror of the packages, such as provided by SMT (Subscription Management Tool), RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool), or SUSE Manager.

Re: RACF and public keys

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Post
e severe doubts about that), just put the key as-is into the target userid's .ssh/authorized_keys file and have them give it a try. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SFTP issue

2017-04-04 Thread Mark Post
hat would be a problem with the script, not SFTP. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/10/2017 at 12:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Isn't Linux available on at least one "real machine"? Linux runs on just about every type of ma

Re: Manual Naming for Local use [WAS: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library....]

2017-04-30 Thread Mark Post
e presentation. It works well enough for my needs. On Linux systems the poppler-tools package contains a "pdfinfo" command that can print things like Title and Author from PDF files that contain them. This could aid in creating symbolic links via scripting as well. Mark Pos

Re: SHARE Proceedings self-extacting ZIP File reguesting Admin rights??

2017-05-01 Thread Mark Post
s on systems other than Windows? Or can it be > extracted with conventional utilities on other systems? SHARE also provides an ISO file for people that don't want/need the self-extracting zip file. Mark Post -- For I

Re: Nasa runs competition to help make old Fortran code faster

2017-05-04 Thread Mark Post
es total) enhanced with Intel Xeon Phi co-processors (MICs) 3,840 MIC cores 0.064 Pflop/s total and they're talking about current run times of "hundreds" of hours or longer, I don't think they

Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Post
it's nice working for a company that appreciates the role of the mainframe in modern IT. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Mark Post
SLES11 on your machine. The release notes say that only z9 or later is supported, but that was a support limitation, not a technical limitation. The binaries were generated with an architecture level of z800/z900. Mark Post -

Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install

2017-05-30 Thread Mark Post
nel and initrd that came with the installation media, that's correct. If you take the installed kernel and initrd from /boot and use that instead, you won't have that problem. > So I know how my own fully working z800 :) Congratulations. ;) Mark Post -

Re: Choosing Windows for your organization should get you fired [Network World]

2017-06-30 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 6/29/2017 at 07:53 AM, "Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM" wrote: > I'd say: nonsense. A "Social Media Marketing Manager" lecturing technical > strategies? As it turns out, he

SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update Images (QU2) released

2022-02-15 Thread Mark Post
l media. That means to perform a brand new installation, you'll need to either access the SUSE repositories for all the packages that have not been updated, or a local mirror of the packages, such as provided by SMT (Subscription Management Tool), RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool), or SUSE Manager

SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update Images (QU3) released

2022-05-10 Thread Mark Post
l media. That means to perform a brand new installation, you'll need to either access the SUSE repositories for all the packages that have not been updated, or a local mirror of the packages, such as provided by SMT (Subscription Management Tool), RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool), or SUSE Manager.

SUSE Rancher products for IBM Z

2022-05-31 Thread Mark Post
act your local SUSE sales representative, or call 1-800-796-3700. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 4 is now GA

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Post
/leap/15.4/repo/oss/ and https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/non-oss/ . Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

SUSE Linux is hiring - Looking for a change?

2022-07-06 Thread Mark Post
k for companies that don't want their employees participating in lists where there's a lot of recruiting, etc., traffic in the list. Thanks, Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Open Mainframe Project will be making a z15 available for all Open Source projects

2022-09-22 Thread Mark Post
jects for some time, this is the first that I'm aware of the availability of no-cost access to IBM Z hardware for z/OS-based Open Source developers. It will be interesting to see if any more z/OS-based OSS projects come along to make

SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update Images (QU4) released

2022-09-26 Thread Mark Post
l media. That means to perform a brand new installation, you'll need to either access the SUSE repositories for all the packages that have not been updated, or a local mirror of the packages, such as provided by SMT (Subscription Management Tool), RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool), or SUSE Manager

Re: any shops hiring in DFW?

2015-12-01 Thread Mark Post
7;ve been seeing lately, you may wind up having to move. If you do, however, I've seen a number of jobs that require mainframe skills, as well as Linux, and even z/VM. Since that seems to fall into your areas of interest, you might

Re: IBM z890 Update.

2015-12-05 Thread Mark Post
P connection to mount it. It's a bit of a PITA, but should work just fine until such time as he either gets the SCSI IPL feature from IBM installed, or he finds some ECKD storage at a reasonable price. Mark Post -- For

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1 is now available

2015-12-16 Thread Mark Post
Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main. All, See $SUBJECT. You can find the iso images for z Systems at https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=oAh1b3eeGT0~ Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: managing /tmp

2015-12-21 Thread Mark Post
shouldn't be a significant backlash from it. If you were able to get by with a 256MB /tmp before, and are only doing this for one (mis-behaving) application, I'm not sure that skulker is really going to be that necessary. Of course, time will tell. Mark Post --

Re: z/OS 2.2 3270 OMVS ssh masks passwords!

2016-01-24 Thread Mark Post
es it. It knows enough to set the attribute byte for the field to be non-display. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper

2016-01-25 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/25/2016 at 02:49 PM, "Nims,Alva John (Al)" wrote: > Yes, if I remember correctly (note message about memory core), but she had > brought in a large coil of wire for that one. That might have been a

Re: LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Post
w enabled with improved speed and processing power." combined with Carlos' discovery in the IBM Configurator seems to all be pointing in the same direction. The page mentions March in relation to "IBM Open Platform." Maybe if we're really lucky the formal an

Re: LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Post
in. As someone who works for SUSE, that's not exactly news. :) Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Post
ould like to add in those details. Thanks, Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/26/2016 at 05:41 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248251.pdf is a z13 reference. For the new z13s? I already have the Redbooks for the z13. Mark Post -- For IBM-MA

Re: LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Post
cle/linuxone-ibms-new-linux-mainframes/ Because the "updated" Rockhopper is no longer a BC12. It's apparently going to be based on a z13s. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: z13 BC????

2016-01-27 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/27/2016 at 08:43 AM, Carlos Bodra wrote: > I haven*t access to protect area of Share Sessions handouts. If you create an account on the web site, you will be able to access the content without having to resort to using search engines.

Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-27 Thread Mark Post
a 3270-type console, you should be able to get it to work. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-28 Thread Mark Post
parm. You should probably ask these questions on the IBMVM listserv. You will undoubtedly get all the help you need there. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 * The Register

2016-01-28 Thread Mark Post
ing towards using openJDK instead. But, we don't particulary "do Windows" so that won't help most people. However, it's entirely possible that IBM has a version for Windows. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

2016-02-18 Thread Mark Post
in fact a new name and a new offering. > > Perhaps I'm the only one... I don't think any marketeer has ever been accused of being "too smart." Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

2016-03-25 Thread Mark Post
ce of 140+ mainframers. Which included a number of IBM executives. :) He was invited to give his talk in Poughkeepsie at the IBM z test labs where he got a second standing ovation from the several hundred people there. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

Re: Linux

2016-03-26 Thread Mark Post
nd maintenance. Another thing to think about is finding a local Linux Users Group (LUG). There are a lot of them out there and the people you meet there can be a big help. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Linux and C++

2016-04-04 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/4/2016 at 10:16 PM, "Jack J. Woehr" wrote: > Linux comes with GCC, the best compiler in the world. Dear ${DEITY}, hardly. Intel's are much better. Now if you had said "best no cost compiler" I wouldn't

Re: Tech News 1964

2016-04-10 Thread Mark Post
and Commercial Bank of China There are others that haven't agreed to be made public. SICOOB is a particularly interesting one in that they started with Linux on z and then grew to the point they decided they needed to a

SLES15 SP2 Quarterly Update (QU1) released

2020-11-13 Thread Mark Post
al mirror of the packages, such as provided by SMT (Subscription Management Tool), RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool), or SUSE Manager. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SLES15 SP2 Quarterly Update (QU2) released

2021-02-10 Thread Mark Post
ia. That means to perform a brand new installation, you'll need to either access the SUSE repositories for all the packages that have not been updated, or a local mirror of the packages, such as provided by SMT (Subscription Management Tool), RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool), or SUSE Manager.

Re: FTP to zvm

2018-11-11 Thread Mark Post
has the CF0 disk linked read-write. You'll need to figure out who that is and have them either detach the disk, or re-link it as read only. As Jake mentioned, you could FTP it to another disk that is not currently in use, and then copy/mo

Re: z/VM Compatibility query

2016-10-02 Thread Mark Post
nux and our other products and services. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-03 Thread Mark Post
dwidth between the DVD reader and the LPAR is (an) order(s) of magnitude slower than a network-based installation server. I don't know if that changed with either the z13 or z13s. If not, I'm hoping that multiple IBM customers sign on to a requirement to improve it. Mark Post

Re: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-03 Thread Mark Post
tirely possible that you can indeed boot from and install from the USB port in the HMC on a z13. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Weird idea? IPL LPAR from DVD ISO image on HMC?

2016-10-03 Thread Mark Post
en remotely architecture dependent. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Installation Improvements (was Re: Links to IBM announcements for today appear to be broken)

2016-10-04 Thread Mark Post
st of why I prefer Linux over Windows. Never surrender the requirement to be _able_ to know what just happened when you did that install. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to list

Re: Fwd: Shark Tank: Is this why mainframes almost never get rebooted?

2016-10-10 Thread Mark Post
e don't know as much as they think they do and are too arrogant to ask for help." :) Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: EXTERNAL: wget for omvs?

2016-10-14 Thread Mark Post
ou'll start getting into scripting things. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma

2016-10-17 Thread Mark Post
created a different version called "vmcp". Those commands work, so you might be able to figure out what they're doing and apply that to your program. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: zLinux market penetration

2016-11-05 Thread Mark Post
now. Last I heard, they were pretty happy with the overall results. Is there any specific reason why you're asking? Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 2 is now available

2016-11-11 Thread Mark Post
LPAR from the HMC without requiring a network connection. Take a look at the release notes for more information. https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP2/ Downloads - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 for z Systems https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=9vG3DWH0TWk~ Mark

More information if you want to file more complaints

2016-12-25 Thread Mark Post
h, a fax number too. Google's email address to report Gmail abuse is gmail-ab...@google.com. The or.shiningbright.online domain is also handled by Google, so it's likely that gmail-ab...@google.com would be the proper email address t

Re: Problems installing Suse Linux under zpdt.

2017-01-12 Thread Mark Post
as a z/VM guest. If you set up the virtual machine with the same (virtual) addresses as will be present in the native "LPAR" install, you should be able to transfer your work to that environment quite easily later on. If you have further problems, feel free to contact me o

Re: Latest copy of Enterprise Tech Journal

2017-01-26 Thread Mark Post
shame. I didn't mind the loss of income so much, since I was using the funds to donate to a local dog rescue. But the blindly binary decision making ticked me off, particularly since they were already familiar with my w

Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Post
other IBM operating systems. Having said all that, the general Linux community views all mainframes as weird. A lot of them come to love them once they get to know them, others continue to want nothing to do with them. Mark Post -

Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Post
lso correct. Of course, for people that _want_ to spend untold hours reinventing the wheel with all the attendant problems that go along with that, that's not a real consideration. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Post
operating system. Early on it used to be able to run independently of z/VM, but that is no longer true. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SYSLOG/OPERLOG Keyword Search

2017-02-13 Thread Mark Post
them directly. It could be that they will in fact support the platform. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS under Linux ?

2017-02-13 Thread Mark Post
e on Linux. Application re-hosting is a whole different matter, even if they are wanting to do it on Intel/AMD hardware. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Re: Resistance to Java.

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Post
tuning can at best provide percentage improvements. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Resistance to Java.

2014-01-25 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/25/2014 at 01:09 AM, David Crayford wrote: > On 25/01/2014 1:57 PM, Mark Post wrote: -snip- >> Given who I work for, I would truly like to believe that, but I have grave > doubts about such statements unless the sources are cited, etc. I know for a > fac

Re: IFL z/VM

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Post
uld be run on. That means you can have your test (or even production) z/OS systems running under z/VM right along side Linux, each being dispatched on the appropriate processor for that workload. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: IFL z/VM

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Post
ated/replaced. http://www.share.org/p/do/sd/topic=302&sid=8747 Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SLES Starter System for System z 11 SP3 has been released

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Post
ed any unwanted spam from having min, so that shouldn't be a worry.) If you don't have one already, you can go to https://www.novell.com/center to get one. Thanks, Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Email disruption, brought to us by Yahoo!

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Post
L documents, from which it has > infected others. According to my dictionary, you're going to have to use a time machine and go back to the 1600's if you really want to attack the origins of that word. Probably not worth the effort. Mark Post ---

Re: SLES Starter System for System z 11 SP3 f00 disk full

2014-04-25 Thread Mark Post
A(F00) is full > Unexpected error during output. RC=13. > Ready(00013); T=2.27/2.49 11:22:16 It appears there's a step missing. After step 8l there should be this: ERASE NOV150 DISKIMG A (TYPE to free up the space for the 151 disk to be unpacked.

Re: SLES Starter System for System z 11 SP3 f00 disk full

2014-04-28 Thread Mark Post
r system is defined more by the installation media it contains than what it is running itself. Even so, I've opened up some inquiries internally to better understand what we're doing during the creation of the system image. Mark Post

Re: Using C or C++ for System exits

2014-04-29 Thread Mark Post
t are considered critical to overall system performance _are_ written in assembler for every architecture. I would say that given the fact that IBM isn't interested in porting z/OS (including RACF and the like) to other hardware pla

Re: z/OS FTPS Client & Linux FTP server

2014-05-07 Thread Mark Post
here in this JCL stream are you telling the client to try to use SSL and not just plain-text FTP? Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS FTPS Client & Linux FTP server

2014-05-07 Thread Mark Post
Mark, This may be yet another case where running strace or ltrace on the server side will give you some insight into what is going on. If you don't want to go down that road, i would say it's time to open up a PMR with IBM.

Re: Vendor Source Code

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Post
;t have to worry about contract terms like that and neither do our customers. :) Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Vendor Source Code

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Post
se, didn't already understand that? Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Vendor Source Code

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Post
ve some source code in escrow. Think governments and the like. "We won't license this product or any of your other products unless you agree to put the source code for this particular package in escrow." Mark Post --

Re: Special characters for Passwords

2014-05-24 Thread Mark Post
;s at least one example: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yinqian/papers/PasswordExpire.pdf Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread Mark Post
heaper hardware. Explaining why that's a bad idea keeps me busy. :) Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

2014-06-23 Thread Mark Post
uot;linux32" command as part of util-linux. Did you try that and it didn't work? Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Local Time conversion to/from UTC Time

2014-06-27 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 6/27/2014 at 06:37 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: > I think your solution will have to be table driven with > an entry for every country and for every U.S. state. Such a table already exists. http://www.iana.org/time-zo

Re: Check out IBM Redbooks | IBM Redbooks Mobile App

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/9/2014 at 04:24 PM, Ed Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Wonder if SHARE has Mobile plans? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coreapps.android.followme.share_inc Mark Post Linux Pro

Re: Z/VM migrate from CKD to FBA

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Post
you might be better off re-installing z/VM (as a second-level guest initially) instead of trying to do any sort of migration. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@l

Re: slightly O/T Who needs hackers? 'Password1' opens a third of all biz doors

2014-08-18 Thread Mark Post
're just the ones that get to implement them. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Mark Post
e script you showed tests for that eventuality, but I figured it might be worth stating explicitly. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Meet Cobol's hard core fans

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Post
be able to maintain it. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Meet Cobol's hard core fans

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Post
tuff, etc. IBM executive presentations are a gold mine of such disclosures. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what?

2014-09-09 Thread Mark Post
roducts 92 percent faster." >> > Does "improve time savings by 90 percent" mean that a job that formerly > took 10 hours now takes 1 hour? More likely that it reduced the amount of people time to assemble systems,

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Post
ge for subscriptions (for the base product and maintenance to it) and support contracts (for bug fixing, etc.). Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-31 Thread Mark Post
peak to the performance aspects, but that is indeed the way Linux for System z runs processes. It also exploits primary vs. secondary address spaces for further isolation. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: X86 server

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/13/2012 at 11:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Would this be more like Platform Solutions Inc., or like Hercules, or > like Neon ZPrime? I suspect it's more like (as in "is") zPDT, or it's cousin RDz. Mark Post ---

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Post
severely limited understanding of reality this comment shows. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19291258 Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Post
rs is averaging around 30% per year. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/28/2012 at 01:59 PM, shai hess wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >> >>> On 8/28/2012 at 01:31 PM, shai hess wrote: -snip- >> > Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? >> >> >>Acco

Re: zEC12 IFL

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/28/2012 at 03:52 PM, Jose Correa Saldeño >>> wrote: > Hi all. > > How much improvement in speed can we expect going from z10 IFLs to the > zEC12 IFLs The same as what was claimed for the full-speed general

Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Post
t all new work should be moved > to that environment. If the hardware costs were the only thing you counted, that would be true. However, there are a myriad of cost factors and business factors that make mainframes the best choice for a significant number o

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/2/2012 at 04:51 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > The major reason for staying on a mainframe (z, Unisys A, Unisys 2200 > follow-on) is the horrendous cost of migration. That is far from the only reason to stay on the mainframe. > Noting the number of > smaller entities that have successfully

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Post
ne is a presentation I did at SHARE, IBM zExpo, and WAVV a number of times. Mark Post Choose the Wrong Architecture and Waste Millions - A Customer Case Study ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/techconf2007/sanantonio/L76_Choose_the_Wrong_Architecture_and_Waste_Millions_

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Post
ire cost within 12 months from licensing savings. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Post
into System z aren't needed for that type of work, so no need to spend the big bucks for it. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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