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I made/uploaded a quick YouTube video. Mostly because I’ve been working more with VM/370 CE, which leads to me working more with the other OS’s, and some things are coming back to me, and…I’m bored!

If you, for example dial mvs. And you are on virtual address 010. You can #cp reset 010 from your mvs logon. Made/uploaded a short Youtube video. Mostly because I’m bored.

I don’t know why. I don’t really have a pressing need for it right now. But I saw it for $20 and couldn’t pass it up. The first USB flash drive I bought was 256MB and I think it was $60-$70.

I was sure I spelled lineage wrong. Line age? But I didn’t! I always forget the line of succession DOS/360 (1966) DOS/VS (1972) DOS/VSE (1979)* VSE/SP (1986)* VSE/ESA (1990)* z/VSE (2005) * – What I worked with

I compiled, .BAC, my TAPE06 program. I didn’t seem any faster for my small test…1000 records…about 3 seconds. I don’t remember perhaps compile is more about protecting the code.

I Forgot about this cool VSE program we ran at the Bank, until I saw it in my log. There is DYNAM/T(Tape) and DYNAM/D (Disk). The biggest thing I remember was CA Dynam/D manages your disk data sets in the following ways:

I honestly couldn’t have told you, from memory, what IBM computer we were using at the Bank. However I saw these entries in my log (doesn’t tell me what we were using prior)… 07/02/93 – 9121-210 (ES/9000) ARRIVED TODAY.07/11/93 – SUN. IN 7:30-12:45PM FOR VM/ESA REL 2 INSTALL.CALLED IBM LEVEL 1 (1X331) WITH PROBLEM DEFINING …

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I was looking at an old mainframe log file I kept. I was looking up various words. Since I’ve been working with VM lately for some reason I decided to look for DMKRIO. I was shocked not to find it in my log file. How can this be? I remember DMKRIO. I did find a …

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I was researching mobile phones and a couple places started talking about haptics. WTH are haptics? Even worse it rolls off their tongue as if, of course, everyone should know what that is. I know I’m sure a lot of younger people would say “OK boomer”. So I look it up and I found this …

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No I’m not trying to be a regular YouTube contributor. One of the reasons I sometimes like to post a video is to have a date/time stamp of when I did something. I had recently put a lot of effort in reading IBM type tapes using Basic-Plus on a PDP-11, like I did many years …

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