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(Originally posted 2007-11-25.) !Somehow I seem to have end up writing a “Memories of…” series of blog posts. That wasn’t the intention but a set of threads on IBM-MAIN Listserver got me to thinking about these nice venerable technologies – VIO, Hiperbatch, Batch LSR and Pipes. By couching these posts in terms of “memories of”Continue reading “Memories of Pipes”

(Originally posted 2007-11-22.) Thanks to Kevin Aires for pointing this out to me… “Boris in Wonderland” is a chat show in Secondlife – hosted by one Boris Frampton of IBM. Go here for the first episode. Andy Stanford-Clark (Ginger Mandelbrot in Secondlife) is interviewed about his applications and creations. The Monty Python quote “look outContinue reading “Not Boris Johnson but a Chat Show In Secondlife?”

(Originally posted 2007-11-20.) If you have any interest in novel, webby or metaverse things you’ll like the Hursley Eightbar blog.

(Originally posted 2007-11-20.) I updated my April 2007 Gameframe post. I’m not sure if the mechanism you’re using to follow my blog will’ve alerted you to this. Nothing desperately fundamental but it has been almost 7 months.

(Originally posted 2007-11-20.) My Favourite Wikipedia Page: List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension

(Originally posted 2007-11-20.) I’m very pleased to note Peggy also has a developerWorks blog. She’s one of the leading lights in DB2 Development. Her blog is here

(Originally posted 2007-11-18.) Another trip down memory lane – prompted by the thread on IBM-MAIN of Batch LSR vs Hiperbatch. Batch LSR started out as a prototype by Paul Dorn of the IBM Washington Systems Center. He was contributing to a book on writing a subsystem but also trying to solve a problem with BatchContinue reading “Memories of Batch LSR”

(Originally posted 2007-11-15.) To whoever it is in Denmark that’s repeatedly hitting my blog today with a search for “dyndisp” and “ddf” I’d love to know what it is that is causing you to search for those two terms together. As you’re on my (day job) patch perhaps I should be talking to you directly.Continue reading “DYNDISP and DDF?”

(Originally posted 2007-11-12.) I’ve just re-read the XCF (74-2) and CF (74-4) sections of the z/OS Release 9 SMF Manual. There are some nice things in there… XCF (74-2) Number of buffer 1KB blocks by path (R742PUSE). This should tell you whether memory waste by over-specifying CLASSLEN is a problem. And some of the otherContinue reading “z/OS R.9 RMF Parallel Sysplex New Fields”

(Originally posted 2007-11-11.) It’s nice to see a flurry of activity in IBM-MAIN about Hiperbatch. And it’s more for the emotional reason of reminiscence than for any stunning insights that I’m blogging about it… Back in 1988 I ran a technical project in my then customer, Lloyds Bank, to evaluate Data In Memory (DIM). ItContinue reading “Memories of Hiperbatch”