I used WYLBUR at Texas A&M University in the early 80's. It worked well enough
for undergraduate programmers although it got very slow towards the end of the
semester when everybody was trying to finish their final projects. The EXEC
facility was pretty slick.
I hated the line editor but didn
is "Big Brother"?
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I also have to wonder if MS-DOS would've taken off at all if IBM had kept it.
In the 20th century I remember a lot of companies, Microsoft and Apple
included, styling themselves as IBM "giant killers." They were cool,
(relatively) inexpensive and bringing computing to the masses. IBM, on the
The genius of the autobahn is the left lane is for passing only and passing on
the right is illegal. Nobody camping out in the left lane, going the speed
limit and turning the highway into a dodgeball court.
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As a witness to an outsourcing followed some years later by an insourcing, I
can infer that cloud providers (which are essentially outsourcers) can and will
lowball companies to get their business on the platform. Then comes the big
contract renewal. A customer's bargaining position is weaker
PROC EXPORT will create CSV files (DBMS=CSV) on Windows machines. It doesn't
work on mainframe, for some reasons with SAS. However, I had a lot of luck
creating CSV's with PROC EXPORT and WPS.
Since my current shop doesn't have WPS I wrote a SAS macro that ultimate
writes a CSV file to a USS
480 characters? Sounds like Twitter.
Was the 2260 keyboard the one with two, count 'em, two PF keys?
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I don't remember the specific date. I think CICS 3.2.1 was the las
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That's good to know. I always assumed CICS had a storage manager be
t have the same facilities as VS1, so CICS had to be written to
the lowest level of code.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 14:45, Crawford Robert C (Contractor) <
04e08f385650-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Yes, CICS has problems with shared memory which it mitigates through
WAIT) without affecting any other transaction
processing. Because, it uses the OS to do *preemptive* multitasking, like a
modern operating system.
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Sorry, I worked in a shop that had both and I can tell you CICS is way more
flexible, modern and performed better.
I will give you this: IMS is a great piece of 90's technology.
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My favorite user ID mess was on an old Vax system that used the last name
followed by first initial. Of course this system began each printed report
with a banner page listing the user's ID printed in large, block letters. One
day I went to the printer and noticed a report from user SEXTONG.
esday, July 12, 2023 at 02:40:08 PM GMT+2, Crawford Robert C
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Thanks, Allan.
Back in the 90's I used CEEPIPI to create a persistent C enclave I could call
from Assembler because building the environm
You might want to try disassembling the LE initialization modules beginning at
the entry point and follow the logic. Some of the CEE CSECT's are included
from SCEELKED while the compiler generates others specific to the module's
requirements (e.g., stack storage, application code entry point).
e we had a circumvention.
Allan
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 5:58 PM Crawford Robert C (Contractor) <
04e08f385650-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> We're interested in invoking Java from assembler in batch.
> Specifically, we'd like to create a persistent Java envir
We're interested in invoking Java from assembler in batch. Specifically, we'd
like to create a persistent Java environment we can call repeatedly and
terminate when we're through.
Has anyone done this? Is the LE pre-initialization module CEEPIPI worth
exploring?
Thanks.
Robert Crawford
Abst
wford Robert C (Contractor) wrote:
> In the early 80's we had an adventure game written in PL/1. It was largely
> table driven so I added a room full of Texas Aggies. To retrieve the
> "treasure," an Aggie Joke book, you had to find a bar of soap and throw it
>
YES!!
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PLUGH!
In the early 80's we had an adventure game written in PL/1. It was largely
table driven so I added a room full of Texas Aggies. To retrieve the
"treasure," an Aggie Joke book, you had to find a bar of soap and throw it into
the room at which point the Aggies would run out of the room enabling
Are you talking about the EXIT macro? You might be able to use a SLIP trap to
count the invocations.
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WPS worked very well for us on several important reporting applications. Even
better, it supports MXG which was really important for performance and tuning.
However, there are some quirks and a few things that don't work exactly the
same. If you trial WPS I suggest you perform extensive testin
Note on GBP duplexing: Not duplexing, to my understanding, would force a DB2
group restart after a CF failure.
On the other hand, duplexing GBP's can be expensive. Fortunately, IBM
introduced asynchronous duplexing which saves quite a bit of CPU. You just
have to make sure your z/OS, CF micr
Nice Sabbath reference.
Robert Crawford
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This also fit
I knew a couple of VP's who didn't understand why mainframe folks weren't
interchangeable.
You have too many MVS guys and need a CICS guy. Move an MVS guy over to the
CICS team. What could be simpler?
Robert Crawford
Abstract Evolutions LLC
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Robert,
I replied to your personal email just now.
Darrold
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:45 AM Crawford Robert C (Contractor) <
04e08f385650-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out some of the finer details for
I'm trying to figure out some of the finer details for JZOS' type 121 SMF
records.
For instance, field SMF121JRS_STRTTME contains the JVM startup time. The doc
says it uses method java.lang.management.RuntimeMXBean::getStartTime() which
returns the time in milliseconds.
Does anyone know if JZ
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