However, on that page it says "These claims have not been accepted by the
scientific community."
Also, in a part of the world prone to flooding, do we really need a rare event
to explain a story about a flood?
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Nonsense; the Bible is a lot of things, including History. The fun starts when
people argue about which parts are what. There's lot's of allegory, metaphor
poetry, etc., but there are also things that match archaeological data.
I have this fantasy of a biblical literalist trying to explain how e
ITYM טְּהוֹרָ֗ה.
Also, the sentence uses the word טְּהוֹרָ֗ה, which limits it to mammals.
"All translations are lies."
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The scarcity of documents going back to 1000-3000 BCE makes it very difficult
to sort out what is history and what is not. Modern scholars form a lot of
hypotheses via textual analysis that are very difficult to verify with actual
data. That's why discoveries like the Dead Sea Scrolls are so exc
There were syntax changes going from CP/M to [MS|PC]-DOS, and somewhere along
the way PIP was lost.
The editor also changed fr Mr. Ed to Mr. Edlin.
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Recruiters are like tech writes; a good one can be extremely helpful, a bad one
can be just a hindrance.
I once interviewed a candidate who, after hearing the job description, asked
why he had been sent. It turns out that my employer was using the low bidder,
and they just flung résumés at the
Not all of the programmers that I worked with in the 1960s were white.
Some of the posters here have worked on multiple platforms and are well aware
that answer vary depending on context.
Wasn't the Hundred Years' War just a land grab? I believe that the Thirty
Years' War is a better example of
It's a bit more complicated than that, but Cutler certainly had a major role.
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Wayne Bickerdike [wayn...@gmail.com]
Sent:
It's not a mainframe vs PC thing or a work place versus Academia thing, it's a
general lack of curiousity and initiative. Lot's of people can't be bothered to
learn anything that they can avoid learning.
I have to partially disagree on theory: I believe that the failure to teach
basic theory ha
Why do you want to get rid of them? If a recruiter calls, I politely say that
I'm not interested at this time.
Depending on the context, I may politely explain that assembler programmer and
assembly line technician are very different skill sets, and that the skills
don't transfer well in either
On 15/08/2023 10:09 am, Jon Perryman wrote:
This is z/OS with SYSPROGS, not Unix with sysadmins where programmers have full
control to define reasonable. You keep asking the wrong question. Who (not
what) determines reasonable. Right or wrong, it is their job, not yours. If you
can't give up c
We've all dealt with good recruiters and bad recruiters over the years. Good
recruiters will send decent paying remote jobs that match your experience.
Bad recruiters will send jobs about 40+ lpars paying peanuts. Then there's
always let's work onsite in nyc for 1/4th the salary you'll need to
There's a Christian missionary organization called Wycliffe Bible Translators
whose goal is to send a small team (and by "small" I mean usually husband and
wife or two brothers, like that) to these groups that speak a language that
only a thousand people in the whole world use, to live with them
When I was contracting on-site I had an Excel workbook that I used to estimate
what rate I would want to go live in for a few quarters.
The workbook was - well, you know what Scott Adams said? "To a normal person,
if it ain't broke, don’t fix it. To an engineer, if it ain't broke it doesn't
Translation is a bear. I'm a native Anglophone who learned Hebrew as an adult,
yet there were things I wrote in Hebrew that I had trouble translating into
English.
I inadvertently pasted "teharah" twice; the word I meant to paste the second
time was "behema".
__
Personally, I'm tired of getting recruiters emailing and/or calling (yes, they
do both) about an urgent need for a 25+ year experience position that maxes out
at $40/hour 1099. So, those, I do not care if their job is harder or not.
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Even a book listed as fiction in the library has some elements of truth. The
Bible is fiction. Christians are atheists when you bring up Roman, Greek,
Aztec, Norse, or other non Christian gods. As with the aforementioned gods,
they don’t exist either.
Nobody ever seems to address the crusades i
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
> Nobody ever seems to address the crusades
Maybe not in fundie circles, but lots of people are aware of how evil they were.
> And nobody addresses the pedophile ring called the Catholic Church.
They hardly have a monopoly. Anywhere adults are in a position of authority
over children they need
1984? You mean when Apple announced a system that was less open the IBM's? Are
you sure that it isn't Apple who is "Big Brother"?
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Crawford Robert C (Contractor) <04e08f385650-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.
A 13 year old girl in Mississippi was forced to give birth to her rapist baby.
All because christofascist want to force their incorrect interpretation of the
bible onto everyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/mississippi-abortion-ban-girl-raped-gives-birth
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Can you PLEASE take non-mainframe related discussion elsewhere
Thank you
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Bill Johnson
Sent: 15 August 2023 14:53
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Subject: Re: The ultimate (another one!) definition of mainframe
Caution: Ex
...and that's one of the ironies of this whole thing. And why did Apple keep
their systems closed? For control, security and (wait for it) money. Sound
familiar?
Robert Crawford
Abstract Evolutions LLC
(210) 913-3822
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Little script.
I continue to use this script and the off-shore recruiter; Well you can
hear them
Just die on the phone. They continue on their s
I have had some off-shore recruiters ask for my SSN and birthdate. You can
imagine how far that goes.
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On Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 at 10:18 AM, Steve Beaver
<050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Yest
Ha! When I was last looking for a job as a storage manager on the z/OS
platform, a recruiter approached me with a position where I'd be responsible
for renting out 10' x 10' storage units to people who'd already filled their
garages with belongings they could not part with.
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Bruce Hewson wrote:
>fyi - a quick check shows approx 200K users defined. Is that a big enough
>number?
Wow! It sure is. How many of those represent real users who log on, and how
many represent real users who access using something else?
I'm really not going much of anywhere with this, but I
Has anyone broken down and bought
Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus
Regards,
Steve
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On 8/15/23 10:12 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Wow! It sure is. How many of those represent real users who log on,
and how many represent real users who access using something else?
+1
I'm really not going much of anywhere with this, but I think it's
useful info to have to say "This is how much t
Mary Kay
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 6:43 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>
> IBM never showed enough interest or vision in microcomputer futures.
>
> I quit IBM in 1979 to work with some former colleagues on microcomputer
> software development. My IBM manager would have walked me if I had been
> join
I’ve had Office 365 for years now, I find it useful to keep paying the yearly
fee because they upgrade the individual components without me needing to
concern myself with which version is current today and I can share it with my
family for no extra charge.
In prior times when I consulted for a
TAKE THIS CRAP ELSEWHERE!!!
Doug Fuerst
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Date 8/15/2023 9:53:14 AM
Subject Re: The ultimate (another one!) definition of mainframe
A 13 yea
I bought a second hand license at Gamers Outlet for very little UKpounds.
But it has not broken down😊.
Lennie
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Sent: 15 August 2023 16:19
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Subject: Has anyone
Has anyone broken do
One thing that absolutely scares the hell out of me is converting Office
2010
To any of the new Office Products,
Has anyone converted? What Problems did you have?
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I find OpenOffice and LibreOffice perfectly adequate.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 11:32 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Has any
I also use Office 365 … best bet for families with kids that need access as
well.
Side note, I also pay for Creative Cloud which is far more economical than the
individual bits.
Matt Hogstrom
“It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive."
— Hogstrom
> On Aug 15, 2023, at 11:18 AM, Steve Be
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 11:12, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
> Bruce Hewson wrote:
> >fyi - a quick check shows approx 200K users defined. Is that a big enough
> >number?
>
> Wow! It sure is. How many of those represent real users who log on, and how
> many represent real users who access using someth
Same here. I use Libre office. I prefer it over Microsoft office.
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:49:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I find OpenOffice and LibreOffice perfectly adequate.
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The troll who said he would stop commenting on here a few months ago? My vote
would be to have his account tagged as restricted from posting.
Rex
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Allan Staller
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 7:16 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LIST
I have both M/S office products and Libre Office on W10 & W11
laptops. The reason for that is, clients are tied to M/S so I
have to use Office 365 for interfacing with them. I use Libre
office when I do not want M/S to use One Drive, or otherwise
don't need M/S software (We have our own file se
The z/OS TSO REXX User's Guide says
(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=stack-using-data):
The data stack [...] can pass information between REXX execs and other types of
programs in a TSO/E or non-TSO/E address space.
Because of the data stack's unique characteristics, you can use the
GETLINE and PUTGET let you read from the stack, if you're comfortable writing
in assembly language.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 1:48 PM
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Subject: How can a
You need to pass eight bytes from a Cobol program to the invoking REXX. Why
not use a disk file with a DD name? You can allocate it in the REXX, call
the Cobol program, this can write it to the disk file, and you can read it
in the calling REXX. Why does it have to be through the stack?
Best wishes
Thanks to an off-list suggestion from Charles that I run a gsktrace, I've now
proven to my (and his) satisfaction that it does the label lookup and
then.never actually uses it after that. So at least I now understand the
results, even if they're arguably not quite what it should be doing. Or at
That's my last-resort. I wanted to see if there's an alternative, and when I
saw what the Users's Guide said about the data stack, I'm wondering what that
actually means. Is it just that a program could write something to SYSTSIN?
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If you assign a card punch on your Cobol program, where will it write to?
Best wishes
Jack
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 19:15 Schmitt, Michael
wrote:
> That's my last-resort. I wanted to see if there's an alternative, and when
> I saw what the Users's Guide said about the data stack, I'm wondering what
> On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 09:41:03 AM PDT, Tony Harminc
> wrote:
>> Bruce Hewson wrote:
>>fyi - a quick check shows approx 200K users defined. Is that a big enough
>>number?
> Until not too many years ago one of the large Canadian banks used
> software from my then employer to mana
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:48:39 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>...
>What I'm trying to do is pass an 8 character field from a COBOL program to a
>calling exec. The constraints are:
>...
I.e. almost anything that's likely to work. Why?
>...
>..., so the parm is one-way, and would hav
> On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 06:30:51 AM PDT, Crawford Robert C
> (Contractor) wrote:
> I also have to wonder if MS-DOS would've taken off at all if IBM had kept it.
>
IBM has a track record of shooting themselves in the foot. Consider what they
lost on the first day "The Cloud" was an
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:48:39 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>...
>Please don't say, run using ISPF, it's easy! Or, call program with LINKMVS,
>it's easy! Or, use the IRXECOM variable access routine, it is easy! I know it
>is, but it can't be used in this case. It has to be the way I describe.
If I DISPLAY something UPON SYSPUNCH it goes to the SYSPUNCH DD. Is that what
you mean?
Meanwhile, I thought of passing through an environment variable. But as far as
I can tell, the REXX exec has no way to read one.
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Hi,
it would be helpful, if you describe your scenario in more details:
Server has some certS, signed by some cas. (I skip possible intermediates). The CAs cert needs to
be trustworthy buy the client.
So far there is no client cert involved. If the server wants some client cert, it has to be
I believe that the TSO CALL is passing a string that is a copy of the
variable(s) used to build it.
So even if I said:
variable = 'dummy'
"TSO CALL *(program) PARM("variable")"
And had the COBOL program change the value of the passed variable, what's being
passed is a copy of the string
Either the environment() BIF or the stem __environment.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 3:01 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a p
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:01:07 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>If I DISPLAY something UPON SYSPUNCH it goes to the SYSPUNCH DD. Is that what
>you mean?
>
He may have been sarcastic. Or an antiques dealer.
>Meanwhile, I thought of passing through an environment variable. But as far as
>I can tel
Unfortunately, neither one resolves in this environment. I tried getenv() also.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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What did syscalls('ON') return?
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Schmitt, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 3:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?
Unfortunately,
It has been a long many years since I wrote my last cobol program. I was
wondering if it would be possible to use a card punch to write to the stack.
Best wishes
Jack
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 20:13 Paul Gilmartin <
042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:01:07
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:08:07 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>I believe that the TSO CALL is passing a string that is a copy of the
>variable(s) used to build it.
>
Can you omit the "TSO"?
>COBOL won't give e access to R1. But even so, as mentioned above, I don't
>think that would help.
>
With
In a universe that is running an emulation of TSO/E but not actual TSO/E. Which
is why ADDRESS SH isn't available either.
And why there are all the constraints.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:25 PM
To:
I believe that he is referring to the command CALL in the TSO environment.
address tso
'call' '...'
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 3:24 PM
To
Errors with "Routine not found"
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?
What did syscalls('ON') return?
Yup.
The funny thing is that if LINKMVS was available then I wouldn't even need the
COBOL program.
I'm giving up and going to pass it back in a file.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:32 PM
To: IBM-MAIN
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:30:32 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>In a universe that is running an emulation of TSO/E but not actual TSO/E.
>Which is why ADDRESS SH isn't available either.
>
I believe that LINKPGM, etc. pass a copy of the argument string, but copy any
modified value back to the REXX
In what environment is your REXX code running
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Micro Focus ESMVS/TSO Version 7.0.000
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:48 PM
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In what environment is you
Guys and gals. Than you for all your input
Steve Beaver
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Of Steve Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 12:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Has anyone
I have both M/S off
Ok, what I said won't work.
Whose COBOL is in use? Is it MF COBOL? Does it support dynamic
"DD" changes via the ASSIGN? If that is the case, then passing
the DD name to the COBOL program would allow it to write to that
DD the data the caller is asking for.
Steve Thompson
On 8/15/2023 3:54 P
If all of us give them a HIGH rate ($125/HR) when they want to pay $40.HR it
does get the point across
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
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Andrew Rowley wrote:
> Disk space is cheap. Data is valuable. People are expensive.
This is absurd. Not all disk is cheap (e.g. GDPS). Not all data is valuable.
While a person may be expensive, not everything they do is of value to the
business and worth the hidden expenses.
> I started on M
I can do dynamic DD names in z/OS COBOL using a trick*, but that trick doesn't
work in MF COBOL. There's no documented way to do a dynamic DD name**. Dynamic
*file names* yes, but not DD names.
But dynamic file names are native files (e.g. C:\Data\Catalog\File.DAT) not
catalogged MVS data set n
Peter Sylvester wrote:
>it would be helpful, if you describe your scenario in more details:
I'll short-circuit this: the STC is a client but is not using a client cert.
It's just doing a GET via HTTPS.
My confusion was that:
a. The doc doesn't really make it clear that a label is o
Then how about the calling program passing the communications
file name [DSN or whatever] and then have the COBOL program
allocate, and open that for output, then CLOSE and "free" it.
The caller, upon return of the COBOL program should now have
access to the string. I recall doing things like
I agree with Seymour that system z is not the same as PC but disagree that the
problem is curiosity. The problem is with students not questioning what they
are being taught.
> Steve Thompson wrote:
> How about the prestigious Schools telling their students that
> COBOL is a dead or dying langu
That's not a recruiter, that's a spammer.
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From:
Yeah, I've noticed the conventions are different for Indian and American
recruiters. The Indians want lots of information up front, including my lowest
rate before even we've talked about the details of the req. The Americans
expect a certain amount of conversation about it first.
On the othe
I gather he cannot. But there's a blocking option, isn't there?
I haven't looked seriously at that option because these posts don't seriously
annoy me. (And to be fair, his on-topic posts are sometimes informed and
interesting.) But by all means drop the hammer for your own mental health; no
I thought programming sounded boring, but I figured an accountant should know
something about computers so I signed up for a class. Not boring. I finished
my Accounting degree, but I went straight into coding and never looked back.
I agree with the folks who approved of your move. Now that I'
Well, yes. But when I ~needed~ the work - needed the money, I mean, of course
- I sometimes took jobs like that. So even to those recruiters I stay polite.
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Oops. Sorry, folks; I meant to send that off-list.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Seymour J Metz
Sent: Tuesday, August
I use MS Office Pro Plus, but it's still 2019. No plans to upgrade until I
must; often when I "upgrade" I find the new product doesn't do something I
wanted to continue doing.
For example, some years ago I set out to find a text editor that had a
hex-display feature. I settled on Notepad++, and
I have Pro-Plus too, and I'm definitely an individual contractor.
And yes, I too fork over the money for it, whenever I get a new PC, because it
has Access. My little sister reminds me from time to time that OpenOffice is
just as good, but I don't want to write something for a client and then
Sometimes you have to do something boring that is not your responsibility
because you're the only one they trust to do it right and they can't afford for
it to be done wrong.
That said, there's nothing wrong with writing tools to eliminate some of the
drudgery.
___
I've ranted on this before so I'll make it short: I finally, maybe a year ago,
got tired of trying to write serious documentation in Word. I asked you folks
and those at another listserv about markup languages, and then took a week off
to learn to use LaTeX. I'm ~much~ happier with that.
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We'll, they did adopt ISA and extentions, but not MCA in the PS/2s.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 08:31 Crawford Robert C (Contractor) <
04e08f385650-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> 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
I'm coming late to this thread, and this solution (if it even works) is
really going around your elbow to get to your thumb, but:
1) You said the REXX exec is running in batch, right?
2) Call the COBOL program
3) The COBOL program displays the value to any DD
4) The exec invokes the SDSF interface
The exec can't access SDSF, and I'm not sure it is possible for it to access
the spool equivalent. It basically restricted to what's available in address
TSO.
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Bridges
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:20 PM
To: IBM-
I just coded this, except I had to hard-code the DD name.
The REXX code looks like:
get_job_step: procedure
address TSO
/* Call JCLEXECI to get JCL exec step info in dd JCLEXECI */
"ALLOC DD(JCLEXECI) RECFM(F) LRECL(80) NEW DELETE"
"CALL *(JCLEXECI)"
"EXECIO * DISKR JCLEXECI (STEM jc
HSM has been able to back up at the file level (and recover, of course)
rather than an entire ZFS data set for some time now.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 21:17, Jon Perryman wrote:
> Andrew Rowley wrote:
>
> > Disk space is cheap. Data is valuable. People are expensive.
>
>
> This is absurd. Not all
Re: MCA, IIRC that's because IBM wanted to charge an arm and a leg to the other
PC manufacturers to license MCA. I believe NCR did license it and their PCs
were relatively expensive.
Rex
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Sent: Tuesday, Au
For a HEX viewr, try the V fileviewer at www.fileviewer.com
It also recognises XMIT format and will even work with XMIT within XMIT.
I bought a license about 8 years back for very little.
Lennie
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Bob Bridges
Sent: 15 Aug
I highly recommend "HxD hex edit".
Rex
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Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:58 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Has anyone
For a HEX viewr, try the V fileviewer at
https:/
I believe that responding to a possible server request for a client certificate
is the only purpose for the certificate label parameter *in a client
configuration.*
For a server, the label is a possible alternative to the usual convention of
having the server present the default certificate on
I use it. I have nothing to really compare it to, but it does the job for me.
Supports EBCDIC.
Charles
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:16:16 +, Pommier, Rex
wrote:
>I highly recommend "HxD hex edit".
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I use both Libre Office and Ashampoo office. The Ashampoo products are like
MS-Office used to be. Not overloaded with features I don't need and each
component offers compatible file formats with MS-Office. Costs about $20. I
have a number of other Ashampoo products for disk backup, video editing,
a
There is too much misleading information. This isn't a simple question about
passing data between REXX and Cobol.
Passing between languages is never consistent. I can't remember about Cobol but
Micro Focus Cobol was written in C which makes me suspect it passes / receives
by value (a copy of)
On 16/08/2023 6:17 am, Jon Perryman wrote:
This is absurd. Not all disk is cheap (e.g. GDPS). Not all data is valuable.
While a person may be expensive, not everything they do is of value to the
business and worth the hidden expenses.
It's not cents per GB PC cheap, but it's not 1990s expens
> Timothy Sipples wrote:
> If an attacker inserts a keylogger or gets an adequate view of the keyboard
I hear that AI is getting good results using the microphone to get keystrokes.
On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 10:17:36 PM PDT, Timothy Sipples
wrote:
Tony Thigpen wrote:
> And, that I
> Andrew Rowley wrote:
> It's not cents per GB cheap
While I agree with everything you're saying, at the end of the day it's the
storage sysprog's decision. As with any z/OS sysprog, they make decisions that
programmers feel are abusive.
People are arguing about passion. If this were a manager
rsyncport is available on z/open tools site.-
https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 2:01 AM Rick Troth wrote:
> And for my next question: what about RSYNC?
> I don't see it mentioned on the Co:Z web site. Didn't find it on
> Rocket's web site either.
> I thought I heard a rumor
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