I used to drive a truck. I know how to weld, use a forklift, pallet jack, and front end loader (college jobs). And I don't have a beard or use Apple products. Could I interest you in buying IBM manuals from the early 70s? I think I have a few Linux diskettes laying around from the late 90s, but no current source for the 8" diskettes from around 1980. Want to bid on my blank punch cards? lol
Databases and documents (MQ and millions of docs I think), I guess, based on change reports I see. DB2, IMS, and Oracle databases. We really now only have one mainframe storage guy, who is close to retirement. Legacy mainframe etc., and I expect management will soon realize that.
And of course, all backed up and mirrored, and restores of datasets and files occur all the time.
VM guests for Linux are what we use, and presumable most shops. z/OS, with UNIX file services does the bulk of the work though. We do have the specialized DB2 and Linux engines as well. You can get a Linux instance up and running in minutes. For disk drives we have 130 TB in raid 5+1 emulating about 7300 3390 volumes, all mirrored at a backup site. The disk drives are in the same SANs used by the server people.
We went to all virtual tape about a year ago (although there are tapes, it's all STK robots handling them). OS upgrades are probably FTP'd now (I'd have to ask to be sure). The JCL is unchanged since the OS thinks they are real tapes. But they are not the old round reels with 2400 feet of tape, they are cartridges. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/029139.htm
Actually, to reply to myself, I looked around a bit. NASA and wiki say the IBM 4Pi is a derivative of the 360. But without the capabilty of the mainframe. IBM is famous for salesmen. It was likely marketed as such to NASA. What they probably got was a 360 with the circruitry all replaced, anything to do with IO removed, and a panel of blinking lights and switches (which can do work just as the Altair).
System 360 was a mainframe computer 40 years ago. I doubt the IBM 4Pi is related. Very very very doubtful. They have different purposes and sizes and likely OS's. It's funny to even think of it.
"Even if it's on a punched card deck and you don't have card deck reader hardware anymore, IBM does." ehhh..not so much. I know ten years ago they couldn't find a card punch machine for where I worked. (Don't ask lol). Anyways, cards are readable by looking at them.
They are connected to the net. But the parts that control the mainframe, in our case, are on a dedicated internal LAN. Only certain userids from certain IP addresses can issue commands, etc. But we have plenty of websites running on the internet through the mainframe. Just users of those websites can't get to the OS. And the websites do use JAVA, we do have SMTP and TCPIP running as well for example. Just most of the public never realizes it.
JES2 is part of the operating system (well, sorta). All it's console messages start with $HASP. That stands for Houston Automated Spool Priority or somesuch. It was developed for NASA for Apollo missions. So yes, rocket science was involved.
I just put our IT department into a spreadsheet, went through and counted the mainframe people. At a guess, there are 50,000 employed in our organization. In my IT department are about 325 people. Out of those 34 are dedicated to the mainframe 24x7x365. The other 300 are supporting mostly MS products and customers (public and internal). The network people are probably a couple of dozen, and maybe a dozen or so UNIX/Linux people. So no, mainframes are not over staffed. And we moved database clusters off servers and onto the mainframe Linux LPARs because of the huge increase of speed due to IO.
Good luck for any judge who asks me for a password. My response will be that I have 50+ passwords just for work, and I don't remember that particular one. The laptop you seized six months or a year ago? Well, I can guess but so can you sir. If I was facing serious charges, I'd just weigh the penalties vs. contempt charge while my attorney appeals.
As someone has been treated for TB, I can comment on that. King county in Washington state Public Health department had to witness me take a dozen or so antibiotic pills a day for a year. They even showed up once at work and pulled me out of a meeting. Beats coughing up blood though, even if the nausea was tough. They never figured out how a single (at the time) office worker got infected.
You can dynamically add volumes to the JES2 spool. No need for an IPL. That's what your system programmer should doing. And automation should be running a command such as $DJOBQ,SPL=(%>3.0) every 5 minutes or so to check for jobs with high spool utilization, triggering an alert to the consoles.
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I used to drive a truck. I know how to weld, use a forklift, pallet jack, and front end loader (college jobs). And I don't have a beard or use Apple products. Could I interest you in buying IBM manuals from the early 70s? I think I have a few Linux diskettes laying around from the late 90s, but no current source for the 8" diskettes from around 1980. Want to bid on my blank punch cards? lol
Not that live nuclear weapons or components can't be misplaced or anything.
http://www.ksla.com/story/16955777/no-nukes-at-bafb-global-strikes-home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident
Sort of how this billionaire supporter of Romney does it when papers or websites investigate him: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/19/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/singleton/
Databases and documents (MQ and millions of docs I think), I guess, based on change reports I see. DB2, IMS, and Oracle databases. We really now only have one mainframe storage guy, who is close to retirement. Legacy mainframe etc., and I expect management will soon realize that.
And of course, all backed up and mirrored, and restores of datasets and files occur all the time.
VM guests for Linux are what we use, and presumable most shops. z/OS, with UNIX file services does the bulk of the work though. We do have the specialized DB2 and Linux engines as well. You can get a Linux instance up and running in minutes.
For disk drives we have 130 TB in raid 5+1 emulating about 7300 3390 volumes, all mirrored at a backup site. The disk drives are in the same SANs used by the server people.
We went to all virtual tape about a year ago (although there are tapes, it's all STK robots handling them). OS upgrades are probably FTP'd now (I'd have to ask to be sure). The JCL is unchanged since the OS thinks they are real tapes. But they are not the old round reels with 2400 feet of tape, they are cartridges. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/029139.htm
IPLs are only needed for certain changes or upgrades to the OS. Craploads of other changes are done all the time, during the change window.
Actually, to reply to myself, I looked around a bit. NASA and wiki say the IBM 4Pi is a derivative of the 360. But without the capabilty of the mainframe. IBM is famous for salesmen. It was likely marketed as such to NASA. What they probably got was a 360 with the circruitry all replaced, anything to do with IO removed, and a panel of blinking lights and switches (which can do work just as the Altair).
System 360 was a mainframe computer 40 years ago. I doubt the IBM 4Pi is related. Very very very doubtful. They have different purposes and sizes and likely OS's. It's funny to even think of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)
It won't have the IO speed or uptime though, but it'll save you $5.
"Even if it's on a punched card deck and you don't have card deck reader hardware anymore, IBM does." ehhh..not so much. I know ten years ago they couldn't find a card punch machine for where I worked. (Don't ask lol). Anyways, cards are readable by looking at them.
They are connected to the net. But the parts that control the mainframe, in our case, are on a dedicated internal LAN. Only certain userids from certain IP addresses can issue commands, etc. But we have plenty of websites running on the internet through the mainframe. Just users of those websites can't get to the OS. And the websites do use JAVA, we do have SMTP and TCPIP running as well for example. Just most of the public never realizes it.
JES2 is part of the operating system (well, sorta). All it's console messages start with $HASP. That stands for Houston Automated Spool Priority or somesuch. It was developed for NASA for Apollo missions. So yes, rocket science was involved.
I just put our IT department into a spreadsheet, went through and counted the mainframe people. At a guess, there are 50,000 employed in our organization. In my IT department are about 325 people. Out of those 34 are dedicated to the mainframe 24x7x365. The other 300 are supporting mostly MS products and customers (public and internal). The network people are probably a couple of dozen, and maybe a dozen or so UNIX/Linux people. So no, mainframes are not over staffed. And we moved database clusters off servers and onto the mainframe Linux LPARs because of the huge increase of speed due to IO.
http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-Instant-Sheet-Fed-PA03603-B005/dp/B003990GMQ seems like a good model according to reviews and is $256.
"Larry Page and Sergey Brin were on hand to watch the rocket lift off at Vandenberg Air Force Base."
Oh really? It was apparently invented in France. http://davidgalbraith.org/uncategorized/the-exact-location-where-the-web-was-invented/2343/
The difference is soldiers vs. civilians.
Good luck for any judge who asks me for a password. My response will be that I have 50+ passwords just for work, and I don't remember that particular one. The laptop you seized six months or a year ago? Well, I can guess but so can you sir. If I was facing serious charges, I'd just weigh the penalties vs. contempt charge while my attorney appeals.
There would be a lot fewer complaints if the TSA were smart about it. Use attractive fondlers of the opposite genders, for adults.
Ah, a RIMshot ;)
Ira Einhorn was tried in absentia for murder, in the USA. It is allowed under certain circumstances.
As someone has been treated for TB, I can comment on that. King county in Washington state Public Health department had to witness me take a dozen or so antibiotic pills a day for a year. They even showed up once at work and pulled me out of a meeting. Beats coughing up blood though, even if the nausea was tough. They never figured out how a single (at the time) office worker got infected.
"For decades, commercial off-the-shelf rockets have been available to launch serious science payloads throughout the solar system."
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You can dynamically add volumes to the JES2 spool. No need for an IPL. That's what your system programmer should doing. And automation should be running a command such as $DJOBQ,SPL=(%>3.0) every 5 minutes or so to check for jobs with high spool utilization, triggering an alert to the consoles.