Re: Instruction speeds

2019-08-14 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 14/08/2019 à 08:18, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM a écrit : And: don't write unnecessary code. A nice example is how to determine leap years: from as long as I program the flow is: - dividable by 4? - dividable by 100? - dividable by 400? The last 2 are completely unnecessary until the

Re: Instruction speeds

2019-08-14 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 14/08/2019 à 18:10, Jesse 1 Robinson a écrit : A couple of observations on Y2K accommodation. -- As my shop was slogging through remediation required for year 2000, insurance companies apparently coasted along because they had ALWAYS needed to handle four-digit years from the inception of

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2019-08-22 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 22/08/2019 à 08:54, Ron Hawkins a écrit : I liked to have our team to train and work face to face occasionally and had regular fly-ins of the team for a week. California killed this off as they want to declare you a tax resident if you spend more than 60 calendar days in the state. Tell that

Re: [External] Re: Important hardware question

2019-09-03 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 03/09/2019 à 21:06, Paul Gilmartin a écrit : metal doesn't keep static charges. your wool suit however... Errr... : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator in which case the static electricity is stored within the belt

Re: [External] Re: Important hardware question

2019-09-03 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 03/09/2019 à 20:24, Farley, Peter x23353 a écrit : Gadi, I would think the only important criteria is that if the stool is made of conducting metal, is it properly grounded? Don't want any stray static charges in the frame, that would be Very Bad. metal doesn't keep static charges. your

Re: Here we go again

2020-04-21 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 20/04/2020 à 21:17, Paul Gilmartin a écrit : > Unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody > knows - The Verge > > https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/14/21219561/coronavirus-pandemic-unemployment-systems-cobol-legacy-software-infrastructure > > -- gil I'm not

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-04 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 04/04/2020 à 10:21, David Price a écrit : > tn3270 X recap > == > Just a point about the names of the 3270 emulators in this discussion. > > The "Brown University 3270 emulator" that the OP was referring to is > called "tn3270 X" (not x3270). It is also called "tn3270"

Re: Here we go again

2020-04-23 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 23/04/2020 à 07:22, Michael Phillips a écrit : > The truly "fun" part about Y2K was that IBM solved the problem in the early > 60s with just 6 digits. CFO-64 was a life insurance application they wrote in > Autocoder that was my first encounter with what EDS-ers called "mo-year" > code.

Re: Creating XLS file

2021-03-24 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 24/03/2021 à 05:31, Peter a écrit : Hello I am looking for a freeware or any sample program which can covert my mainframe file into an excel file. Just to be clear we don't have SAS or any seperate tool to achieve this. Is there any working solution who can point me in the right direction?

Re: The Great Resignation

2021-12-19 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 19/12/2021 à 21:34, Joe Monk a écrit : "And as we are seeing, the baby boomers are much to blame for global warming, the results we are seeing in fires, floods, polar icecaps melting, and yes, the recent record setting tornadoes in Kentucky, Tennessee, & other states." Jeez man, get a grip.

Re: article about ransomeware and mainframe

2021-12-23 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 23/12/2021 à 10:41, Radoslaw Skorupka a écrit : Yes, z/OS *IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS IN TERM OF SECURITY*. the bar for that is pretty low though :-) Raphaël -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: HSM went into a hang state

2021-12-10 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 10/12/2021 à 09:48, John Blythe Reid a écrit : I don't know if anyone else has come across this but HSM went into a hang state in production for several hours. There was no indication of this and it only came to light because jobs began to fail due to datasets not being recalled. This has

Re: AWS Outage Analysis: December 7, 2021

2021-12-11 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 11/12/2021 à 19:46, Tom Brennan a écrit : Of course... military has the money (the $500 hammer?) to have redundancy on their redundancy.  Business installations normally can't justify those costs. yet they don't have to justify the cost of capital (aka the every year increasing amount of

Re: MVS in the CLOUD

2022-02-19 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 19/02/2022 à 08:45, Tom Brennan a écrit : It'll be interesting to learn the details.  For example, I can easily imagine how Hercules (and I assume zPDT) works on x86, running code to simulate each mainframe instruction, register, interrupt, etc.  But run that same code under z/Linux and

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-29 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 29/01/2022 à 16:12, Itschak Mugzach a écrit : David, Prove your claim reg. "Enterprise software". Give at least one sample. My claim is already proved. Nordea bank was penetrated from USS, LOG4J is an open source. ITschak here is an article about the Nordea hack.

Re: S/360-50 emulator

2022-01-27 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 27/01/2022 à 17:23, rahimazizarab a écrit : Did they ever hear of Hercules. yes, they have. however, this is different, as it emulates the actual hardware. Raphaël -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-18 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 18/01/2022 à 09:09, Itschak Mugzach a écrit : Raphael, That's exactly my point. How do you maintain the life cycle of open source? each project publishes updates, according to either * fixed calendar * feature based calendar * vulnerability fixes How can you explain that so many vendor

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-18 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 18/01/2022 à 08:28, Itschak Mugzach a écrit : See your offering such as BASH. It is downloaded and installed. no service exists. Do you expect the user to check every day if there is a new version? no, that would be the job of the site administrator

Re: [EXT] Re: Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems

2023-08-09 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 09/08/2023 à 03:48, Bill Johnson a écrit : I worked for 15 years for a health insurance company. I’ve seen how & why US healthcare rates poorly. The ultimate goal of healthcare insurance companies is to take in premium and pay out as little as possible in claims. Health isn’t even a

Re: U.S. Federal Reserve Launches FedNow

2023-07-21 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
se of IBAN for the occasion, making international transfers easier ? Raphaël Jacquot -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

2020-06-09 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 09/06/2020 à 14:24, Peter Bishop a écrit : > Interesting re 2): > > "The survey found that organizations are running an average of four > mainframes with an average age of 17 years. Sixty-four percent are > running mainframes between 10 and 20 years old, with 28% running > machines that are 20

Re: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... )

2020-06-13 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Le 13/06/2020 à 22:13, Tony Thigpen a écrit : >> Wait - is bottom-posting a thing? > Also, back in those days, it was clearly pointed out to the developers > that their "so called" standard was for newsgroups, not email but they > were stuck deep in their "we know what is right" mode. They also