Or please provide references to docs, articles etc. that could explain it to
the rest of us.
Thanks
An ignorant STEPLIB user
mkk
On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:32:59 -0400, David Spiegel
wrote:
>Hi Jim,
>Why is "STEPLIB" dangerous?
>Please explain in detail.
>
>Thanks and regards,
>David
>
>
>On 2023-
In the famous words of Michael Corleone - it's not personal, it's strictly
business.
mkk
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:11:23 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka
wrote:
>W dniu 09.06.2023 o 01:33, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw pisze:
>> Can someone please explain what IBM have done on the LinuxOne machines to
>> stop t
zCX has been out there for a few years now, how much is it being used for real
work? Has is really taken business away from other platforms? Unless that
happens it will just be another technical curiosity.
mkk
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 11:33:12 +, kekronbekron
wrote:
>> I think K8s is the USS o
FSF and Linux can reasonably be ignored in this discussion but was there a time
when Unix System Services (of z/OS or OS/390) was competitor to other platforms
that claimed to be UNIX? How many third party apps were available / supported /
marketed for USS as against AIX, HPUX or Solaris? How ma
Reminds me of someone's email signature from a long time ago which went
something like:
"No trees were cut down in sending this message but a large number of electrons
were seriously inconvenienced."
mkk
On Wed, 17 May 2023 19:00:10 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
>Wait, "improve life on the plan
But Bill definitely does and almost makes up for IBM's failing with his
abundant enthusiasm !
On Tue, 9 May 2023 12:21:03 -0500, John McKown
wrote:
>IMO, IBM doesn't really care about that much about z anymore.
mkk
PS: Not Friday yet but it's the hump-day so are almost there :)
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BTW Rudyard Kipling named his house "naulakha" may be because it cost him 9
lakhs to build it. As for Indians using base 10 system for numbers, keep in
mind that this system was invented there.
mkk
On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:53:13 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>For pairs of digits, I was thinking
At least they listened to the esteemed professor with respect to teaching it
... and it looks like he didn't say anything about coding in it :)
MKK
On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 19:42:12 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>Well, Dijkstra [in]famously said “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its
>teaching should,
A long time ago I wrote a cobol equivalent because the site didn't have a PL/I
compiler and the program was distributed in source only. Lacking the necessary
naming expertise I simply called it CSNTEP2 with the first character indicating
the language used :). It might still be available at IDUG
Agreed, it's not worth trying to figure out IBM-think. There is probably some
IBM executive telling his subordinates in a serious Michael Corleone tone
"That's what I want them to think.". Hey, it's Friday and a Godfather quote is
never out of place :)
mkk
On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:02:25 +,
I guess the yearning is for something like Persian which mostly disregards
gender. Its third person singular pronoun "oo" ( pronounced like too without t)
covers he, she and it. It even uses borrowed Arabic words, which are gender
specific in the original, for all genders.
MKK
On Thu, 9 Jun
Gabe,
With freedom of religion guaranteed in this country, you have no business
criticizing what or who Bill chooses to worship.
Regards
MKK
On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 16:29:48 -0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
>I don't have a dog in this ridiculous fight -- though I've also lived a career
>based on IBM m
I had a manager who would say "Enough of politics, time to switch to religion"
on such occasions.
mkk
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:14:04 +, Eric D Rossman wrote:
>Enough Bill. Why are we allowing politics on the list?
>
>Don't we have any moderators?
>
>Eric Rossman, CISSP
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Not just alive ... it's mutating. I have a coworker who is named ComeTron!
mkk
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:52:10 +, PINION, RICHARD W.
wrote:
>So Tron is alive!
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Why not ... The One True Platform (TM) has a lot of life left in it :)
MKK
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:48:01 +, Bill Johnson wrote:
>I’ve been laughing for 30 years at the people who said the mainframe was
>dying. 30 years from now, it will still be processing most of the important
>transactio
Well, it's the same people who changed "DB2" to "Db2" very likely spending
small fortune probably because that's the change that customers needed most.
It's good to be a king :)
MKK
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:43:19 -0500, zMan wrote:
>WTF is a WAZI, beyond what Urban Dictionary suggests:
>
>Srsly
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:25:40 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
> Rocket and IBM don't see any value in integrating
>ported tools with TSO as it's not strategic. The main focus is on
>containers.
Is it zCX containers that run Linux workloads or something else?
MKK
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Once the argument over who has what powers became really hot :)
MKK
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 08:04:37 -0500, Joe Monk wrote:
>"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand."
>
>It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the
>federal government has cert
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 13:33:58 +, Henri Kuiper wrote:
>;)
>
>Sent from my wireless iPhone
>
Is there a wired version as well !?
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That's only partly true. Of the three such languages that I'm familiar with,
they all write the numbers so that higher order digits are to the left of lower
order digits but not all of them read in left to right order. One of them reads
the numbers right to left i.e. units tens hundreds order.
USS is definitely an integral part of z/OS so it's a legitimate mainframe hack.
However if more of the hacks are occurring via USS it does raise questions
about its quality from security perspective compared to the "classic" MVS side
of the mainframe. Buffer overruns are probably the most common
That does explain a lot although too late for those who have been infected :)
On Wed, 1 May 2019 21:22:19 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
>TIL that he's suffering from IBM: inclusion body myositis, a degenerative
>disease that causes muscles to weaken over time but
>generally does not affect l
No, no, no, he is NOT trying to solve or prove anything. He is merely trying to
save the world just like his namesake from around 2000 years ago. History is
repeating itself again in that he is not having much success with his
contemporaries. Neither the ordinary folks (IBM-MAINers) nor the Roma
Calligraphic styles in Arabic (and other languages using the Arabic script) are
more akin to fonts in western scripts. Letters do change shapes based on the
context i.e. standing alone, at the beginning, middle or end of a word but
that's nothing like upper / lower case. Shape of a letter does n
This is not new for them either. Remember when all their hardware products had
become "server"s or "z/OS is UNIX" or "COBOL now has object oriented features".
Not sure how many customers bought their hardware because it was a "server" or
how many bought z machine for their UNIX applications. As
May be Ginny & friends don't want to be left out of all this cool cloud talk at
the parties, so they made the claim. It's not like that there is a Cloud(TM)
certifying authority that will shut them up :). Service bureaus were surely
very much like clouds but were not called clouds and there are
I use XODO app on my Android tablet which allows annotating pdfs, price is $0.
Mohammad
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:25:52 -0500, John McKown
wrote:
>
>Thanks, I'll look at that.
>
>Not bad. It costs some money, but I don't know if I'm willing to pay
>$15/month for it. Also, unfortunately, it is Wi
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 20:30:21 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>
>Why DB2 has so many address spaces is probably because of the IMS heritage.
>Other (simpler but equally effective DBMS) manage on a single address
>spaceI wish...
>
I believe this was due to the size limitation of 31-bit address
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:04:45 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>On 31/10/2017 8:34 PM, John McKown wrote:
>
>What genius at IBM decided it was a good idea to re-brand DB2 to Db2?
>We've got loads of documentation that references DB2. Should we spend
>time and money changing our doco or leave it as it
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:36:46 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353
wrote:
>Although Arabic word writing is right to left, numbers are written left to
>right.
It appears so but that not the case, since the numbers are read in unit - tens
- hundreds order the writing follows the same order.
>Mohammad, I’m confused. You said:
>>In Arabic while writing from right to left 345 is written exactly in that
>>order and it's read "five forty three hundred".
>I’m trying to understand. Given the number 345. You’re writing a series of
>letters, starting with A (yes, of course it’s not an >A,
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:04:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>How would you enter that number in a bilingual editor/word processor? Which
>digit would you press first?
>
>I once had Google translate a short sentence to Arabic. I was puzzled
>to see the period on the right. But, ah, that's a Lati
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:11:44 -0600, John McKown
wrote:
>This is more a Friday type topic. But I'm curious about why the original
>designers of the S/360 went with "big endian" instead of "small endian"?
>The _only_ reason that I can think of is because our arithmetic "system" is
>"big endian". Th
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:07:02 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>>To me, one of the biggest pluses is the "hardware memory key". As now
>>used by z/OS, it really helps with reliability because, properly used,
>>it enforces separation of authority (ability to write) by major OS
>>subsystem. E.g. JES2
Unless he has become a technology expert he seems be out of his circle of
competence here. Then again he probably won't even miss that money if it all
goes down the drain.
Mohammad
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:50:58 -0500, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
>Someone still has hope ... or faith.
>
>http://www.blo
I hope the updated JZOS Cookbook would have some samples exploiting these
features. Are there any samples available anywhere as of now ?
Mohammad
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:48:38 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>There has for some time been a package in JZOS (in the SDK) named
>"com.ibm.zosrrs" (in the zo
Exactly ... with more options at their disposal programmers can do interesting
things. Unfortunately we do not inhabit the free world of Linux and have to
live by what the Central Committee decides and the local bosses permit :)
MQSEND works fine but does have a limit on the size of the messages
>
>
>On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Peter Ondruška wrote:
>
>> :-) actually, Mohammad, you have received answers to make your (work) life
>> easier (and deliver results); in the end it is your decision which way to
>> go.
>>
>>
>> On 10 April 2014
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:10:06 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>
>You've listed three arguments. The first argument is that *you* won't be
>using all the features a major transaction manager offers. To which I'd
>reply that almost nobody uses all those features for any particular, single
>program.
Nic
I'm not using z/OS Batch Runtime rather it's a plain vanilla batch job using
JZOS to run Java code. My reasons for not using a transaction manager are as
follows:
- The process is pretty simple and does not need all the features they offer.
- I hoped that I would be able to use RRS to coordinat
Does this option provide transactional integrity the two resource managers (
DB2 and MQ ) ? I mean if there a problem with any one component the updates in
both will be backed out. My current Java code is able to write to both and as
long as nothing goes wrong it's all fine. Unfortunately it's t
I may be trying to push the envelop but RRS attach is already being used for
connecting to DB2 as shown by the plan name used by the thread in our db2
monitor. Now if I could only coax it ( ! ) to recognize MQ as well.
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 04:33:44 -0500, John McKown
wrote:
>Just a wild guess
> In the end you could also write your own transaction manager.
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Denis.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Mohammad Khan
>> To: IBM-MAIN
>> Sent: Wed, Apr 2, 2014 4:11 pm
Hi Denis,
Thanks for your response. I'm not trying to write my own transaction manager
rather I'm hoping to use RRS in that role, after all RRS is already being used
for DB2 access. Now if Java does not provide any means of using RRS to
coordinate multiple resources I guess I'm out of luck. I'll
I have a batch program that runs under JZOS ( on z/OS 1.13 ) which connects to
DB2 using jdbc type 2 connection and connects to a local MQ queue in binding
mode. It updates DB2 data as well as writes to MQ. It seemed to work ok until
it encountered an error writing to MQ and abended. More import
Sure, but one could still beat them :)
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 17:16:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe
wrote:
>>
>> So "USS" and "USS" would be a case of a ...
>
>Dead horse.
>
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For all who have know Rick,
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