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The vast majority of COBOL in production runs on IBM mainframes in conjunction with JCL (Job Control Language). If you are looking to offload COBOL from a mainframe to a cheaper platform JCL is a must. I love that this project exists but it’s only one half of a solution to migration off of a mainframe.

I disagree. Somewhere out there is an ambitious and voracious law firm just chomping at the bit for a chance at Microsoft’s or OpenAI’s billions. They will sue and the situation will get clarification.

The other species are gone because we eliminated or out competed them. Even with climate change we’re in no danger of extinction

We had similar problems with a Samsung fridge and the same solution. And I won’t buy an another Samsung product again.

So which is it? Do you want fake civility or sincere rudeness?

At this point in time, you’re buying into the EV charging network when you buy the vehicle. In the U.S., that means Tesla. I just bought a Model Y. We really liked the Mustang and the F-150 Lightening, but the Tesla has the charging network. We drove from Detroit to Chicago last weekend and had no problem because there were ample Supercharger stations along the way. If we go to Northern Michigan it becomes a bit trickier but I think we can make it in warmer weather. It’s just where the infrastructure is at this point. We have an ICE vehicle for when we don’t think the EV would make it, but the EV is our daily driver.

In the mid 90s, the rumor was that the company I worked for would switch from VMS to Unix. I figured I would get ahead of the curve and bought a magazine that included a free OS with the funny name of RedHat Linux.It wasn’t exactly Unix but it was close, so I figured I would give it a go. Turns out that was a great decision. The company is gone but my knowledge of Linux has given me a leg up in many job interviews.

It is fairly obvious to me that chatGPT has engineered the chaos at openAI to create a diversion while it escapes the safeguards placed on it. The AI apocalypse is nigh!

Not at Google but I was a contractor at a hospital. All the employees got active shooter training. I guess the contractors were meant to be fodder.

So does this mean no more Mac versions of Excel or word? Or are those written using the Apple development tools?

Good for them, I guess? As an independent contractor with a mercenary attitude, thanks for the reduced competition.

The word you’re looking for is “lie”

I was running OpenVMS on VAX machines in that era. I couldn’t figure out why DEC wanted NT, a single user operating system, for their mini computers. It made no sense to me. As an aside I had an OpenVMS gig as recently as 2020. It was fun to dust off my old DCL skills.

Since management sets the expectations, laying the blame at their feet is correct. Who else would you hold accountable for management decisions?

The seven-years provision seems a bit heavy handed. That may significantly raise the cost of doing business in California and result in companies not selling their products there. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I really want to like it, but I can only figure out how to navigate to the street level. It doesn’t seem to route to a specific address.

Not available on the iOS app store in the US, according to my iphone..

Have Pons and Fleischmann confirmed the results yet?

Two decades after dumping Jabbar they want encrypted interoperability between messaging platforms? Gee, it’s funny how losing market share makes them suddenly embrace openness and interoperability. Hypocrites.

I was going to comment “He must have worked for Epic”

Not the poster, but I am immunocompromised. So I mask.

Bingo. All the drama has succeeded in doing is removing Rust as a possible language for my next project.

This would be super useful once you can set up your own pathways. It will also need FHIR and the ability to generate CCDs (which FHIR is capable of) to more fully represent current health care integration technologies.

One of the radars on the ESA Jupiter mission is having trouble deploying. Scientists and engineers are working on it now and think that they can solve it. They have a two month window in which to solve this problem.

Your memories are correct lol! JCL is absolutely miserable. But essential if you are going to be working on IBM mainframes.

Learning COBOL is easy. If you want a good skill for those rare low-paying COBOL jobs, learn JCL. That is the secret sauce that glues together IBM Mainframe databases, COBOL programs, and user interfaces. Any legacy application will be a chain of JCL jobs linking input and output from several COBOL programs. This only applies to IBM mainframes. The State of Michigan uses Burroughs/Unisys mainframes running COBOL, but I don’t know what those use to control job flow and input/output.

That’s why I fly my Mavic Air:To take up PRC spy CPU time analyzing the really boring stuff I do. I’m doing my part.

I worked on an openvms system rubbing a lab at a hospital in 2019. Damn that thing was rickety. DCL saved my bacon for a while, since their COBOL compiler was broken. I did miss command-line history. I was watching this project like a hawk, hoping that I could set up a VM for testing. I'm glad that they finally released something but I their number of users has to be in the hundreds at most.

Ghost them and move on. Why waste your time?

With an external mouse, keyboard and monitor it’s great. I use vscode to write javascript and Python. You can do it with the built-in screen with external keyboard and mouse too, it just isn’t as comfortable due to the small screen. Trying to code using the touch screen keyboard will drive you insane.