Replaced my 1TB drive with a 2 TB drive. The one TB drive still can be used for storage. Bumped up home from 300GB to 500GB. Will install my backup distro with 500GB home also. So reinstalled Linux Mint with newest version 20.1 and it still has x3270 and c3270 terminal emulators! So there Manjaro. …
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Computer problems – Pt. 3
Now perhaps my computer problems were not the SATA connector on the motherboard. I sure hope not, because if one fails…how soon before others? I say this because in the efforts of installing the new HD, I needed to shuffle drives around in an attempt to save any important data. So I was able to …
Computer problems – Pt. 2
So in order to proactive about my HD failure, I bought a 2TB drive to replace the suspected 1 TB failing drive. However when attempting to create partitions on and formatting the new HD by reinstalling Manjaro, I got “The installer failed to create partition on disk…”. I found a boot-able gParted DVD and thinking …
Computer problems…me thinks!
Disk to be specific. Shutdown problem last night, didn’t shutdown cleanly. Suspected it, hoped it would come up this morning…it did! This disk command was first thing I ran at startup. Of the 4 disks this is the only one reporting bad sectors…of course it holds all my home directories.
Copy a PDS to another PDS
Thinking about this new YouTube Video and thought maybe it would be more useful to others to do it on a 3270 using ISPF. Which I assumed would be intutitive…but it wasn’t. See the copy utility below. It wasn’t clear to me how to copy looking at this panel,from the beginning, after I decided I …
My YouTube videos
I’m not a put myself out there kinda guy. Also since I tend to have a lot of sinus problems, my already pretty bad speaking voice is even worse by my sniffing and throat clearing. But I want to make another YouTube video. These are Hercules MVS (Tk4-) vids. I have no desire to be …
Manjaro – No 3270 emulator
Tried to install x3270 today…and it doesn’t exist in their repositories anymore! As a matter of fact, no 3270 emulator could be found. I thought Arch had everything? Maybe the writing was on the wall, the last time I installed it on Manjaro recently, it was in a foreign language! No love for mainframes? Just …
Done with Pi-hole…for now!
Love the concept. First time I installed it seemed to work great! A month later the server ran like molasses just trying to log in. Second time installed didn’t work as well. Queries reported (or whatever it’s called) seemed to be updating but blocked report numbers were very low, even though it appeared to be …
New Program to copy local files to a MVS PDS
Wrote new python program to copy local files to a MVS PDS by wraping IEBUPDTE JCL around the file.
Another advantage to keeping MVS programs local
If you have to restore TK4- for some reason. You still have all your programs/JCL! Sometimes if there are problems it’s just easier to unzip TK4- and start anew!