Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Gabe Goldberg
That matches what I heard somewhere about IBM's policies (at least back then) on liquor and sex: Not on IBM time or property. "Farley, Peter" said: I was told that TJ Junior was a teetotaler - frowned highly on any kind of alcohol consumption and didn't like to promote anyone who imbibed. No

Re: IBM JCL Expert preview in today's announcement letter

2022-11-15 Thread
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Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Dave, When I worked at STC Canada, one of the FE's had a way of playing Beethoven's 9th using a SPAR Tape and flicking switches inside the controller. Regards, David On 2022-11-15 12:29, Dave Jousma wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:03:46 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: Had me thinking of the

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
very cool, thanks for sharing Dave Carmen On 11/15/2022 11:29 AM, Dave Jousma wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:03:46 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: Had me thinking of the IBM 1403 and possible the 3211 printers - there was a card deck IIRC and IEBGENER that was used to direct print, that deck whe

Re: How to Make (IBM) Corporate Holiday Parties Even More Awkward?

2022-11-15 Thread Doug
The IBM songbook was legendary. CE's, Salesmen (people now, excuse me) during classes, internal meeting, and various other gatherings sang the songs on the way to lunch, to dinner, to other meetings. HAIL TO THE IBM!!! I have a copy somewhere around here. I'll have to look for it. Probably wi

How to Make (IBM) Corporate Holiday Parties Even More Awkward?

2022-11-15 Thread Gabe Goldberg
IBM — then called “The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company” — was founded in 1911 when a bunch of smaller companies combined into one larger one. At its inception, IBM had roughly 1,300 employees, making it a large employer on day one. And when Thomas J. Watson joined the company in 1914, it

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Dave Jousma
On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:03:46 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: >Had me thinking of the IBM 1403 and possible the 3211 printers - there >was a card deck IIRC and IEBGENER that was used to direct print, that >deck when printed would play a song, I forget now whatr song - it was >possibly something local

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Had me thinking of the IBM 1403 and possible the 3211 printers - there was a card deck IIRC and IEBGENER that was used to direct print, that deck when printed would play a song, I forget now whatr song - it was possibly something local at my site. Carmen On 11/15/2022 10:11 AM, zMan wrote: M

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Bfishing
My wife took tenor banjo lessons from this guy, who also played at our wedding. I do not recall them playing any IBM tunes at it however. On a funny note, the Zizzy family was happy to get a copy of our wedding video. They had no clips of him playing until they saw it! https://www.legacy.com/u

Re: Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread Farley, Peter
I worked for IBM briefly in the late 1960's (4 month cooperative education stint while attending engineering college) and what I noticed was that the shorter the haircut, the whiter the shirt, and the bluer the suit, the higher up in the organization that individual was. I was told that TJ Juni

Songs of the IBM

2022-11-15 Thread zMan
Most of us probably know about the IBM Songbook, but heres an interesting outsider take on it: https://nowiknow.com/how-to-make-corporate-holiday-parties-even-more-awkward/ -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" --

Re: Debug tool for C++ program using XL C\C++

2022-11-15 Thread Joseph Reichman
Thank you I’ll give it a shot > On Nov 15, 2022, at 5:36 AM, Mario Bezzi > wrote: > > Joseph, > > according to the Language Environment Programming Guide, in order to > distinguish runtime options from program arguments that are passed to > Language Environment, the > options and program a

Re: Debug tool for C++ program using XL C\C++

2022-11-15 Thread Mario Bezzi
Joseph, according to the Language Environment Programming Guide, in order to distinguish runtime options from program arguments that are passed to Language Environment, the options and program arguments are separated by a slash (/).. If you are only passing LE runtime options your parm string m

Subdirectory and associated file(s) to actual ZFS File system inquiry

2022-11-15 Thread Kenneth J. Kripke
Thank you to all that responded. You have given me the necessary information to complete my tasks Sincerely; Kenneth Kripke k.kri...@comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

AW: SPF/SE is available for free

2022-11-15 Thread Michael Knigge
Some words from Tim's wife bonnie: I don't have any install files...nothing on the product. I only got involved with filling orders but I can no longer access any of Tim's files. I don't have his passwords and none of the companies, AOL, Google, Microsoft, etc. would give me access even though

Re: IBM Z and LinuxOne Commmunity

2022-11-15 Thread Colin Paice
Hi Geoff, Thanks for putting your head over the parapet As a strategist, would it be possible to improve the performance of the online system, it is embarrassingly slow for an IT company; and can you fix the back button. In 99.99% of other web sites, the back button gets you back to the previ