Note: xQuartz hasn’t been updated in FOREVER. While I use it, I’m nervous
of this fact. (I use xQuartz and x3270 on Catalina, without problems, by
the way.)
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> On 4 Apr 2020, at 17:38, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>
> On 4/4/20 9:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> I tried building x3270
Let's posit that ABENDing on the first such condition is not acceptable to
user
management.
That is a bad thing to posit. That is an insane design in the absence of
other information, unless by ABEND you also include "and the task
terminates" (and I am assuming you are including "program chec
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-jersey-cobol-coders-mainframes-coronavirus
Reasonably bad article but kinda funny/ironic/something.
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On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 08:33:41 +, Martin Packer wrote:
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>Note: xQuartz hasn’t been updated in FOREVER. While I use it, I’m nervous
>of this fact. (I use xQuartz and x3270 on Catalina, without problems, by
>the way.)
>
So XQuartz is 64-bit.
Is X11 gaining features that would require support in a
Actually its not.
https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/10
Joe
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:09 AM Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 08:33:41 +, Martin Packer wrote:
> >
> >Note: xQuartz hasn’t been updated in FOREVER. While I use i
My recollection is that catching '10'X and '11'X was only for ESPIE and was
intended for use by IBM. One plausible use that comes to mind is guard pages
for segmented stacks.
BTW, what is the status if you do a LINK while a SPIE is active? The
documentation has several references to RBs.
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A friend just taught a COBOL course here in Australia. Some Oz banks and
government agencies are recruiting younger folks for such roles. Lots of
COBOL around. I wrote some COBOL in the past few days. DB2 stored
procedure. Mow trying to get it working for Broadcom Datacom. Any one done
that? Fetc
it seems that the huge increase in benefit request in New Jersey is causing
their benefit systems to be overloaded and not able to handle the volume of
requests.
It doesn't seem like a load issue but more the application needs to be
changed. Otherwise you would just throw more MIPS at it
https://
Says here "COBOL is a dead language that hasn't been taught in most
universities for decades, and the rare COBOL coders command anywhere from
$55 to $85 an hour".
I'm reminded that five or ten years ago one of my sons heard my standard
rant #37 about mainframes, and thought maybe he should learn t
I came to the opposite conclusion: I couldn't see why coding was required
unless new function was DESPERATELY needed. The word in bold because that
seems very risky - going around changing function at a time like this.
And, because my lens is more-or-less performance, I thought making the
appli
But what about the TP shortage?
Charles
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Most of it is BS. Scratch the surface and you usually find capacity or
performance issues around the Windows servers while the management blithely
blames the mainframe because they don’t know how anything works.
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Eat more fibre.
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Don't want to beat this thing to death but FWIW I meant "ABEND" in the sense
I hear it usually used: to abnormally end, to blow up, to go kaput. When
someone says "payroll ABENDed last night" they typically in my experience
don't mean it took an ESTAE exit and recovered transparently. They mean it
Hopefully it is a capacity issue and not programming, given Brooks’ law...
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> On Apr 5, 2020, at 12:15, Martin Packer wrote:
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> I came to the opposite conclusion: I couldn't see why coding was required
> unless new function was DESPERATELY needed. The word in bol
I have asked and been told that various universities do not teach languages,
they teach theory. So the students learn an object oriented language such as
C++ or Java online(?).
The statements made and questions asked of/by contract programmers (off shore)
relative to COBOL — I believe it.
Se
COBOL is not taught because those that know it can make a much better
living using it than teaching college classes to people that believe it is
“dead”
Of course the latter opinion is stupid on the face of it. After all, how does
one replace systems that are not understood
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 12:24:40 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Don't want to beat this thing to death but FWIW I meant "ABEND" in the sense
>I hear it usually used: to abnormally end, to blow up, to go kaput. When
>someone says "payroll ABENDed last night" they typically in my experience
>don't mean it
Today's programmers consider programs "throw-away" just like everything
else. Hey also consider them multi-granular, where any piece can be
plucked out and replaced without affecting anything else. This is
derived from the OO programming model. (But, we know how models and
real-world differ. Ju
That may be true to some extent. I haven't been to college (not counting
working at one) in decades. But back then I was getting a degree in
Accounting, and took ONE CLASS in programming - sounded boring, but I figured I
should know something about computers. I was immediately hooked. We wro
Tony,
Also the Agile framework and not the Waterfall model of SDLC. I have used
both
written Cobol and Assembler in both. My impression is everyone is ‘hurrying
up and rushing code’. If your code is very modularized then I feel AGile
is ok.
Scott
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 5:42 PM Bob Bridges wrot
Ok, I was going to resist the temptation, but what the heck. Some of you may
remember this joke from 20 years ago:
Jack was a COBOL programmer in the late 1990s who (after years of being taken
for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers
and Client/Server pro
To be fair, "any piece can be plucked out and replaced without affecting
anything else." if there is a rigidly defined interface and the replacement
complies absolutely. Of course, IRL someone invariably gets "pragmatic" (i.e.,
sloppy) and the inevitable ensues. "Alpha testing? That's what end u
> Get Outlook for iOS
We hates it precious, we hates it. It's as user hostile as gmail.
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Gerhard adam [gada...@charter.ne
IMHO they don't teach theory, they teach language du jour. We'd all be better
off if they exposed students to a variety of radically different languages
instead of just what's popular.
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To: Seymour J Metz
Subject: COBOL NJ
Suddenly my mail to IBM-MAIN is bouncing.
Can someone please ask to the list to whom to a
Thanks, volunteers on hand and waiting and I seem to be back on the list :)
On 4/5/20 5:13 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
From: Jack J. Woehr [j...@well.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 6:40 PM
To: Seymour J Metz
Subject: COBOL NJ
Suddenly my mail to IBM-MAI
Seymour J. Metz wrote:
>A few more notes on nomenclature. TN3270 and TN3270E (upper case)
>are protocols published by the IETF; programs implimenting those
>protocols are TN3270 clients, not TN3270 emulators. TN3270 clients
>are not 3270 emulators, because they do not support any of the link
>proto
Well, the 3rd COVID19 bill included an extra $600 per week increase in
benefits from federal sources. Should be able to change the formulae
quick enough, then just multiply the number of checks by the $600 to
transfer from the Feds. Actually I expect the problem to be a maxed
out database or fill
Cobol IMS TELON job is paying 59-100K/year in Springfield IL, kind of
a low wage.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:09 PM Bob Bridges wrote:
>
> Says here "COBOL is a dead language that hasn't been taught in most
> universities for decades, and the rare COBOL coders command anywhere from
> $55 to $85 an h
Better article:
https://freedomafterthesharks.com/2016/06/27/exactly-what-is-cobol-and-why-is-cobol-still-a-widely-used-language-in-it/
Phil Smith III said:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-jersey-cobol-coders-mainframes-coronavirus
Reasonably bad article but kinda funny/ironic/someth
Believe it or not, Leipzig university (Germany) does teach cobol and
mainframe. They even got one.
ITschak
בתאריך יום ב׳, 6 באפר׳ 2020, 0:54, מאת Bob Bridges :
> Ok, I was going to resist the temptation, but what the heck. Some of you
> may remember this joke from 20 years ago:
>
> Jack was a
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