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Big MVS COBOL Sort
I did a million record Cobol sort months ago. Here I am talking about getting the Cobol sort to work.Saw no mention of timings on my log.So found old Jobstream and reran today for timings.Input 1 million 165 byte recordsOutput 1 million 60 byte recordsSorted by Last Name, First Name Below is a cut & …
IBM Announces z/OS V2.5
Yes they did.
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OK…and? What am I supposed to do with this WordPress message? I looked at it and I don’t care!!!!! If I click the X to close the message it just comes back the next time I want to edit this post. How about an option? Switch to the autosave or Ignore the autosave. If I …
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New project
I don’t usually have trouble coming up with some kind of project to work on for some reason I am now.
System Monitor in virtual desktop 4
The one thing (KDE System Monitor) I always wanted starting in a specific virtual desktop was the one thing giving me trouble. It was always starting in virtual desktop 1. Everything else seemed to reopen where I shutdown the system. Right click menu bar select More Actions. We are concerned with the following 2. Possibly …
Hercules version
I guess I never noticed or looked. But Tk4- uses Hercules version 4. The main Hercules page says the current version is hercules-3.07-1. There is a version 4 manual available with an date of November 21, 2015. HHC01603I versionHHC01413I Hercules version 4.00HHC01414I (c) Copyright 1999-2012 by Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, and othersHHC01415I Built on Jun …
Tumbleweed System Monitor
In my experience, my system monitors always graph right to left. So first off the History option seems to be what I’m familiar with…except it starts graphing left to right then when it reaches the other end it switches right to left. What in the Twilight Zone is going on? Am I crazy? Also the …
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Dbeaver
Can’t believe I hadn’t heard about Dbeaver until a recent Destination Linux podcast talked about it. A free multi-platform database tool that works on many different databases. Tried it on a SQLite DB, and it worked great. Automatically downloaded the driver needed. It caught my attention because it supposedly works on MS-Access databases. However I …