lboc

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by lboc 6y ago
Could you elaborate on the Slack-Linux-Japanese thing please? I have no problems with it, and was wondering if maybe an update broke it?
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by lboc 6y ago
I went looking for it myself a while back: https://www.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward/clearpath... Unfortunately, I haven't got access to a Windows machine at the moment.
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by lboc 6y ago
Thank you. I can't believe I only just noticed the 'search' box at the bottom of the page...
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by lboc 6y ago
Thanks for your 3270 font by the way. It's my daily driver for terminal sessions.
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by lboc 6y ago
Has the MTM/learning system been submitted to HN before, do you know? I'm getting kinda tired of copy-pasting the same links over and over :)
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by lboc 6y ago
Most active development is happening on the SDL fork I believe: https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion
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by lboc 6y ago
I thought everybody did it that way!
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by lboc 6y ago
IBM Dallas: http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/ Others exist, but you might need to be looking for/googling a 'service bureau' (what cloud providers were called in the olden days)
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by lboc 6y ago
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248851.html and http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr011.pdf Should pretty much cover it :) Edit: missed http
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by lboc 6y ago
But z/OS isn't. You need both for a functioning local environment. (Yes, yes, leaving aside IBM z/OS licensing restrictions which preclude use under Hercules)
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by lboc 6y ago
Yes, I thought so but didn't want to assume.
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by lboc 6y ago
If you're assuming 'for free', then yes I agree. A full z/OS cluster on a laptop is well within the realms of feasibility using (non-free) zPDT however. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg24820
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by lboc 6y ago
1. Yes 2. Yes https://ibmsystemsmag.com/IBM-Z/07/2019/resiliency-gdps-solu... Don't know enough about current mainframe development practices to answer the last two sorry, but I don't see why not. (
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by lboc 6y ago
Woohoo! I can give my ctrl-c, ctrl-v fingers a bit of a break :)
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by lboc 6y ago
Visa could process up to "47,000 transaction messages per second" in 2013 according to: https://www.visa.com/blogarchives/us/2013/10/10/stress-test-...
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by lboc 6y ago
>The other problem is that Java is the most 'modern' programming language available. https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2018/07/06/using-swift-creat... https://www.rocketsoftware.com
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by lboc 6y ago
:) IBM really need to pull their finger out and hype this. (If you need more than a year btw, you can re-apply for a new ID in subsequent years. I've done it myself twice)
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by lboc 6y ago
(s390x) Docker containers are natively supported in z/OS 2.4: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com... I guess there'd be nothing to stop you eg. including a s390x Linux on He
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by lboc 6y ago
>ibm needs to figure out how to get mainframe access for developers, only then will they see usage increase. They already did, but seem to have a pathological aversion to actually publicizing it: https://www-01.ibm.com/ev
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by lboc 6y ago
Free z/OS access for a year from IBM: https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/ast/mtm/audit.nsf/enrollal... All z/OS docs are freely accessible online: https://www-01.ibm.com/ser
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by lboc 6y ago
I think the $900 is just for the z software. For zPDT you need to provide your own hardware/cloud instance, and pay for the emulation software on top of that. That came in around $2.5k/year IIRC.
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by lboc 6y ago
I can't believe this (still?) isn't being more widely publicized by IBM - they offer free 1-year z/OS accounts to anyone. You're perfectly free to re-apply the following year (I've done it myself). https:/&#x2
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by lboc 6y ago
IBM give away free year-long z/OS accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20873531
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by lboc 7y ago
This set me reminiscing about the x87 series FP co-processors. Nice nostalgia break waiting for a build to finish, thanks!
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by lboc 7y ago
Heh. No problem :)
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by lboc 7y ago
I take it you didn't follow up on this six months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20873531
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by lboc 7y ago
I know a rhetorical question when I see one :)
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by lboc 7y ago
It's referencing former IBM chairman Thomas J. Watson's alleged quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_attrib...
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by lboc 7y ago
There's the Open Mainframe project, and Zowe I guess: https://github.com/zowe If you're interested, there's also the Master the Mainframe initiative. Mainly a competition for those in school, but the 'le
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by lboc 7y ago
Search that Redbooks site for 'abcs of systems programming'. There's a 5-volume set from 2000 that covers S/390 and OS/390. Also check out the OS/390 ADCD Redbook: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/r

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