Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-06 Thread zMan
ve access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM sells software portfolio including Notes and Domino to HCL for $1.8b | ZDNet

2018-12-08 Thread zMan
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Re: Code vulnerability

2018-12-08 Thread zMan
> > > > https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf > > Sneaky! > > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Crosshair cursor

2018-12-29 Thread zMan
Does anybody here voluntarily use a crosshair cursor in your 3270 emulator? -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue)

2019-01-10 Thread zMan
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Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue)

2019-01-11 Thread zMan
ructure > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:31 PM zMan wrote: > > > Semicolons?😀 > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > > > > REXX is lot like C? I can't think of anything they have in common > beyond > > > the minimum b

Re: The WHY of the POR

2019-01-17 Thread zMan
this message. > > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its > employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission > of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

2019-01-25 Thread zMan
arksandspencer.com > > Please note that electronic mail may be monitored. > > This e-mail is confidential. If you received it by mistake, please let us > know and then delete it from your system; you should not copy, disclose, or > distribute its contents to anyone nor act in r

Re: Highly technical question - how do I only get my posts?

2019-03-15 Thread zMan
s from everyone? > thanks > Bill > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a m

Re: Is it broken? or just useless

2019-03-19 Thread zMan
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Re: AMODE 32

2019-04-04 Thread zMan
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:17 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > My guess is the OP is married to 4 byte pointers. You've met his wife? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2019-04-13 Thread zMan
m cleaner... The array was using a standard power > plug. > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO I

Re: Email validation (was Re: Mainframe Report meets abrupt end | Computerworld Shark Tank)

2019-04-26 Thread zMan
to a smaller > value, > > 9 to 13. > > > > -- > > Walt > > > > > -- > This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough > hunchbacks. > > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > >

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-12 Thread zMan
No link there. On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 11:21 AM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Maybe this link will be more likeable? > IBM Knowledge Center > > > > | > | > | | > IBM Knowledge Center > > -

Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages

2020-07-01 Thread zMan
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Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages

2020-07-02 Thread zMan
age: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > --

Re: Mainframe co-op

2020-07-07 Thread zMan
amp; Other Industry Solutions > IBM Z & LinuxONE > - - - - - - - - - - > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-18 Thread zMan
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Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-20 Thread zMan
Not gonna sue you, but you realize AltaVista died in 2003, right? You’re using Yahoo, whose continued existence is a mystery to all. On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:52 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > You had me convinced, Tony :). I've recently started using "Google", > capitalized, to mean Google, but the l

Re: Fwd: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls

2019-05-28 Thread zMan
So...you make statements and don't back them up, and when offered coutner-examples, refuse to view them? Plonk. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:30 PM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Demos remind me of this joke. > http://www.jokes.net/heavenandhell.htm > I’ve se

Re: fluroscopes for shoe fitting was Re: IBM SR going away?

2019-06-26 Thread zMan
; > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afr

Re: Friday!

2019-07-24 Thread zMan
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Re: What's the intent of the "LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE" instruction?

2019-07-24 Thread zMan
or double word alignment, which > LZRF/LZRG do not. > > Paging Dan Greiner... > > Tony H. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...

Re: IBM classic data capture

2019-08-11 Thread zMan
on List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Cameron Conacher > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the m

Re: Mainframes testing

2019-08-13 Thread zMan
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Re: vendor distributes their private key

2019-08-26 Thread zMan
d data encrypt using your public key. So if foo wants to > send bar a signed encrypted document, foo double encrypts it with foo's > private key and bar's publickey. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

Re: Important hardware question

2019-09-03 Thread zMan
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Re: [External] Re: Important hardware question

2019-09-03 Thread zMan
ss instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM z15 Announcement

2019-09-12 Thread zMan
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Re: z15 from IBM i perspective

2019-09-23 Thread zMan
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Re: z15 from IBM i perspective

2019-09-23 Thread zMan
e saying your shiny > new ThinkPad has a 386-it's sorta kinda in the neighborhood, but really > just wrong. > > > > Signed, > > Mr. Pedantic > > > ------ > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread zMan
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Re: Phoenix Software International Announces IBM(R) JES3 Licensing Agreement

2019-10-07 Thread zMan
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Re: CBPs (processors) - some explanation

2019-11-07 Thread zMan
, KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Fully paid-up share capital > amounting to PLN 169.347.928 as at 1 January 2019. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

IBM does it again

2023-01-26 Thread zMan
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/18/ibm_sued_securities_fraud/ What has happened to the IBM we knew and loved?! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM does it again

2023-01-30 Thread zMan
Yes, Rex, that's how I read it as well. If proven, someone should join Sanjay in Fairton (acually he got paroled six years ago last week). I'm sure anyone who has worked for a large vendor has seen this happen to one extent or another. Sometimes it's relatively harmless, just pumps up some product

Re: I want to cry

2023-02-03 Thread zMan
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Re: I want to cry

2023-02-03 Thread zMan
. On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 10:11 AM Hobart Spitz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:00 AM zMan wrote: > > > O my. > > > > I was on a call with a bunch of customers a few years ago. One of them > was > > having a very basic problem with a COBOL program calling our pr

Re: z/OS 3.1 Announcement US Letter

2023-03-01 Thread zMan
; send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Z15 EOM

2023-03-02 Thread zMan
Thanks for all the inside knowledge! /s Seriously, that page is a keeper. On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 8:17 AM Eric D Rossman wrote: > First, let me say that I have NO inside knowledge. > > While it doesn't directly answer the question, the official IBM page for > "IBM Z mainframe hardware product ma

Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please

2023-03-27 Thread zMan
Now we get to argue over whether JCL is a language! (Despite the "L" in the name, I'm 100% sure there are folks who will argue that it is not, just as there are folks who argue that HTML isn't a language. I'm not one of them, don't throw things at me!) On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:43 PM Farley, Peter

Re: Fascinating Interview with Steve Jobs [non-mainframe]

2023-03-29 Thread zMan
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Re: Not aging well (know-it-alls)

2023-04-10 Thread zMan
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If You Had Invested $10,000 In IBM In 2013, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

2023-04-17 Thread zMan
https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/04/17/if-you-had-invested-1-in-ibm-in-2013-this-is-h/ TL;DR: Less than $10,000. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: If You Had Invested $10,000 In IBM In 2013, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

2023-04-17 Thread zMan
Fair enough. One could argue that a blue chip like IBM is quite different from an upstart, and that the GM bankruptcy was a black swan, but it's a fair point. On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:59 AM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > If you had invested 10,000 in Tes

Re: Tape compression and modern encryption facilities.

2023-04-18 Thread zMan
>What does it mean "non-virtualized"? ;-) "Realized", obviously! (OK, maybe not.) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: If You Had Invested $10,000 In IBM In 2013, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

2023-04-19 Thread zMan
lways pick a time frame for every stock where it doesn’t perform. MSFT > stock did nothing from 1999 til 2016. > > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > > > On Monday, April 17, 2023, 10:20 AM, zMan > wrote: > > > > > https://www.fool

Re: RCF feedback [was: RE: Re: IBM RCF Documentation email address?]

2023-04-30 Thread zMan
ror, please notify us immediately by > e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to li

Re: Solarwind to z/OS

2023-05-08 Thread zMan
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Re: IBM announcement letter summary

2023-05-09 Thread zMan
y requires a list of 100 names to be split into paragraphs no > longer than > 8 column-cm. with a different introductory phrase for each. > > -- > gil > > ------ > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-20 Thread zMan
Alas, this is patently false. The number of MIPS may be growing, but the number of boxes, shops, and applications is clearly dropping. When was the last time a new mainframe customer joined this list? Why are the parking lot and floor in POK empty all the time? I sure wish it wasn't so, but all th

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-20 Thread zMan
not growing? > > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > > > On Saturday, May 20, 2023, 11:17 AM, zMan > wrote: > > > > Alas, this is patently false. The number of MIPS may be growing, but the > > number of boxes, shops, and applications i

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-20 Thread zMan
subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-20 Thread zMan
trumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2022/10/05/ibm-to-announce-tech-investment-during-biden-visit > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Saturday, May 20, 2023, 7:04 PM, zMan wrote: > > Note that "fewer mainframes" doesn't refer to fewer boxes. It

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-22 Thread zMan
nd Poughkeepsie are > where IBM has most of their mainframe engineering and manufacturing. > Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson Valley. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Saturday, May 20, 2023, 10:58 PM, zMan wrote: > > Nothing here says it's investing in P

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-22 Thread zMan
chitect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity > IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific > sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN &

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-22 Thread zMan
Good point. I'm out. On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 8:13 AM Jay Maynard wrote: > Get a room, you two. > > On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 7:10 AM zMan wrote: > > > Right, but there are other facilities, and the article isn't about > > mainframes, it's about AI and chi

Re: Are you serious about wanting a better IBM doc RCF-type process?

2023-05-22 Thread zMan
> >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: z/OS 3.1: Now UNIXR Certified

2023-06-02 Thread zMan
;> -- > >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>> send email tolists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >>> > >>> -

Re: Why can't a LinuxONE run z/OS

2023-06-09 Thread zMan
ior Architect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity > IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific > sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to

Re: 0C1 abend

2023-07-04 Thread zMan
Indeed. It's hard to see how doing so would break anything, since it's already broken by definition, more or less. One can (barely) imagine someone setting a trap to recover from such a thing, but c'mon... Oh, wait, you don't consider an 0C1 to be documented? /s On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 12:23 PM Jo

Re: Double ampersand?

2023-07-06 Thread zMan
he rule. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and

Re: Userid schemes

2023-07-14 Thread zMan
; > >> On 2023-07-13 22:53, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:56:55 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: > >>>> When I worked at IBM Canada full time (1994-2002), our TSO Userids > were > >>>> XXn, where n was a person's &q

Re: [EXT] Re: Userid schemes

2023-07-17 Thread zMan
; > ------ > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Will z/OS be obsolete in 5 years?

2023-07-18 Thread zMan
- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Curved Flat Screen

2023-07-25 Thread zMan
ible for delivering to the intended recipient, please (1) be advised > that any use, dissemination, forwarding, or copying of this document IS > STRICTLY PROHIBITED; and (2) notify sender immediately by telephone and > destroy the document. THANK YOU. > > --

Re: Cloud Storage

2023-10-31 Thread zMan
e process. When using a cloud > service like Amazon S3, the TS7700 must wait for the transfer to complete > otherwise they risk integrity issues like an incomplete transfer causing > partial processing. Either the cloud object is completely processed or not > processed at all. > >

Re: A real light bulb moment [for 3420 tape drives] | Computerworld Shark Tank

2019-11-20 Thread zMan
/ signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send

Re: A real light bulb moment [for 3420 tape drives] | Computerworld Shark Tank

2019-11-20 Thread zMan
s not checking the easy things first, hence pillage > then burn. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf > of zMan > Sent: Wednesday, No

Re: IDENTIFYING 3270 GDDM USERS

2019-11-21 Thread zMan
If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and > follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not > occur in the future. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: [External] Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

2020-01-03 Thread zMan
mmediately > by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, > whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. > > > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: Job Posting

2020-01-08 Thread zMan
is confidential and may > be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If > you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate > it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, > copying, distribution or use of

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread zMan
archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "

Re: Talking to 3270 terminals?

2020-01-14 Thread zMan
ad > > of 3170 terminals, that would be interesting as well. > > > > -Alex > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-25 Thread zMan
True. But RE aren't even standardized across platforms, making them very difficult to use in multi-platform product code. On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:34 AM David Crayford wrote: > On 2020-02-25 9:14 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > "regular expressions". What a misnamed item. It should be called "geek

Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder]

2020-02-27 Thread zMan
I think it makes at least as much > > >sense for proportional fonts as mono. You can (and I do) have Word > check > > >to make sure they're always there... > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-09 Thread zMan
and effort. It’s not easy > but I’ve done it for years > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread zMan
on.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of zMan [zedgarhoo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 9:40 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainf

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2020-03-10 Thread zMan
> > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of zMan [zedgarhoo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:49 PM > To: I

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-17 Thread zMan
re all about ease of use and "glitz". > > -- > People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Wanted Civil programmers in New Jersey urgently

2020-04-09 Thread zMan
Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > > 741598. > > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 > 3AU > > > > > > ------ > > For IBM-

Re: Three years ago, IBM ordered staff to work in central hubs. Now its new CEO ponders mid-pandemic: Is there a better way of doing things? • The Register

2020-04-22 Thread zMan
signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: LzLabs

2020-04-28 Thread zMan
> Peter B > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

2020-05-10 Thread zMan
Without disagreeing about the stupidity of making stuff just vanish (hint: if they wanted to move it, they didn't need to delete the old content, and anyone vaguely conscious would have provided links to the new locations,or AT LEAST a static page saying "Stuff moved, go here"), anything that gets

Re: 3270 terminals: CUT vs. DFT

2020-05-12 Thread zMan
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Re: : z/OS Java 11 coming anytime soon?

2021-04-12 Thread zMan
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Re: IBM Earnings are excellent!

2021-04-20 Thread zMan
re. Cloud was up 4% to 5.44 billion. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan --

Re: IBM chip breakthrough!

2021-05-07 Thread zMan
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Re: U 4087 abend

2021-06-07 Thread zMan
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IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/ "If we can't even handle our own cloud migration program then why would any customer trust us?" Indeed. Don't worry, IBM -- nobody actually uses your cloud in the real world anyway, no matter what you claim. --

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Off topic. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:47 PM, zMan wrote: > > https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/ > > "If we can't even han

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
y sad. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:02 PM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Your anti IBM bias is well known here. And very old. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:58 PM, zMan wrote: > > Firs

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
fine. Unlike the numerous outages from AWS & > Azure. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Friday, July 2, 2021, 1:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin < > 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 12:47:23 -0400, zMan wrote: >

Re: 3277 graphics

2021-09-01 Thread zMan
>Tek bought the company for $100 million, sold it 2 years later for $5 million. Make it up in volume? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INF

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: zPDT Learner's Edition

2021-09-30 Thread zMan
Eh? You want z/OS to remain in its little puddle of uniqueness, unable to interoperate with the vast majority of the universe, requiring arcane skills to do the most basic of tasks and thus ensuring its path toward demise? On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 8:51 AM Ron Wells < 02ebc63ff5ef-dmarc-requ...@

Re: Abbrev. (was: PL/I vs. JCL)

2021-10-04 Thread zMan
een forbidden. > > --- On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 10:02:46 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: > >I guess that nobody bothered to tell the tech writer that the "S" in > >MVS, is an abbreviation for "Storage". > > ---

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-08 Thread zMan
And you were. In those exchanges, that makes one of you. On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:00 PM Charles Mills wrote: > Sincere apologies. I was trying to be constructive. > Bill, you need to put the crack pipe down. -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: System Programmer Titles

2021-10-11 Thread zMan
> > > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The foregoing message (including attachments) > is covered by the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. sections > 2510-2521, and is CONFIDENTIAL. If you believe that it has been sent to you > in error, do

Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

2017-03-01 Thread zMan
If it's truly a perpetual, unlimited-seat license, "No" is the correct answer, and the vendor gets sleaze points for trying an end-run. If there's a weasel clause, you may be SOL. Will be very interested to hear how this plays out. P.S. Would not be the first time a vendor (software or otherwise)

Defined capacity?

2017-03-01 Thread zMan
"run this Rexx snippet and tell me the current, max, and CEC capacity". zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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