Re: Historical Question
Charles,
All true - with the caveat - when it worked - it was fun and amazing - HOWEVER, when it failed - there were some horrific messes -
We used to laugh that this was a VERY INTELLIGENT MACHINE
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Jeff Bassett
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#5096
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Re: Historical Question
When I worked for IBM in Tucson, AZ, in the early 1980's, much of our data was stored on MSS. When we would run a foreground job from TSO, the application would typically output a message like:
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Charles Bailey
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#5095
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Re: Historical Question
Dave,
The 3850 mass store was at the time quite a device -
And due to the high cost of DASD at the time - it really did serve a purpose -
At the larger shops that had these - you will hear all
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Jeff Bassett
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#5094
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Re: Historical Question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3850
[email protected]> wrote:
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Mike Schwab
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#5093
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Re: Historical Question
I would say it was hard to design systems that made efficient use of them. I can see that some Universities and research organizations in the UK had them. I think at Manchester University they were
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Dave Wade
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#5092
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Re: Historical Question
The 3850 (and the 2821 before it, which performed a similar function in a
much different manner) were notoriously unreliable, with serious issues
surrounding the function of retrieving and storing of
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Jay Maynard
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#5091
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Historical Question
So I am studying the OS JCL and Utilities book (Michael Trombetta) from the mid 80's, good book ,was recommended to me for the MVS 3.8j era of JCL. Am happy with it and can also recommend it.
They
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Dave Trainor - N8ZFM
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#5090
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Re: REVIEW R51.6
Hi All,
I will release MVS-TK5 Update 4 in a few days.
Review 51.6 is included and many more components.
Cheers,
Rob
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Rob Prins
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#5089
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Re: The FUTURE is here. Finally! AI from IBM that can answer all your MVS, z/OS, z/VM, JCL, HLASM or COBOL questions. FOR FREE!!!
Dear Patrik,
I get your skepticism, but i was not born yesterday, and also pretty familiar with all this new AI stuff.
Of course if you ask deep complex question, there is a chance that you will get
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Andre
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#5088
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Re: The FUTURE is here. Finally! AI from IBM that can answer all your MVS, z/OS, z/VM, JCL, HLASM or COBOL questions. FOR FREE!!!
Hello Andre,
I hate to spoil your enthusiasm, but…
Am 04.02.2025 um 22:02 schrieb Andre via groups.io <http://groups.io/> <procritic@...>:
… and a dream it is.
If you blindly
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Patrik Schindler
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#5087
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The FUTURE is here. Finally! AI from IBM that can answer all your MVS, z/OS, z/VM, JCL, HLASM or COBOL questions. FOR FREE!!!
Hello guys, good news indeed.
My dreams come true, i don't need to search answers in documentation anymore,
because there is AI Helper from IBM itself, which will explain to me in detail anything and
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Andre
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#5086
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Re: REVIEW R51.6
Hello Greg,
Am 21.01.2025 um 11:15 schrieb Greg Price via groups.io <procegrog@...>:
Has anybody done an install "procedure" (aka: JCL) matching the turnkey environment? I think this
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Patrik Schindler
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#5085
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Re: How to ftp the cbttape from cbttape.org
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
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[...]
Thanks, Frank! Much appreciated!
Now all I have to do is find the time to give it a try and play around with it. :)
(which at the rate I'm going won't be until
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Fish Fish
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#5084
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Re: Why is this job asking for another 3350?
Do you have the updated JCL you used to install it on a sysgen-ed system?
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AC9QD - Neal
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#5083
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Sysplex definition in hercules CNF
Hello Group
Is it possible to create a sysplex environment in hercules by running two
different hercules environment in same PC and define them as SYSPEX ?
if so kindly point me to the documentation
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zpmain
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#5082
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Re: How to ftp the cbttape from cbttape.org
By far the best way to use CBT is via the CBT dialog available on file 43 of the CBTTAPE.ORG files.
It allows you to browse and download (via FTP internally) directly to your z/OS system from the
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Brian_Westerman@...
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#5081
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Re: How to ftp the cbttape from cbttape.org
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=ftp-using
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.
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#5080
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Re: How to ftp the cbttape from cbttape.org
Frank R wrote:
Don't you mean upload?
FTPing to/from z/OS is just like FTPing to/from anywhere else. The only difference is, because it's z/OS, its file system structure is quite different from
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Fish Fish
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#5079
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How to ftp the cbttape from cbttape.org
Does anyone have a sample of how to download the latest CBTTAPE to a version of z/OS. I am trying to follow the example from the CBT website, and, having never used the z/OS FTP facility, I'm at a
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Frank R
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#5078
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Re: Whats the best way to transfer dasd from z/os to Hercules
Andrew wrote:
[...]
Then as you wish, I shall not.
--
"Fish" (David B. Trout)
Software Development Laboratories
http://www.softdevlabs.com
mail: fish@...
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Fish Fish
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#5077
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