For Bill Mayo - looking for current email address

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun May 11, 2014 9:59 am

rlkeeney wrote:Dusty, are you an old RADAR man?

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I am positive you have it at least half correct!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

rlkeeney · Post by **rlkeeney** » Sun May 11, 2014 10:00 am

JPG40504 wrote:I am positive you have it at least half correct!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

If he was young he would not know what a T2 was.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun May 11, 2014 10:07 am

rlkeeney wrote:If he was young he would not know what a T2 was.

Ahh!, but he fer sure knows what a magnetron magnet is!:D

tomsalwasser · Post by **tomsalwasser** » Sun May 11, 2014 11:02 pm

cooch366 wrote:This is a GREAT thread. I too was a COBOL / Assembler / RPG programmer in the 70's & 80's. Is it me or are there a lot of us in the Shopsmith family? HMMMM.. May be related to us being very analitical.

OK Steve, let's see how much useless information we've retained. A little mainframe trivia here. First to reply gets a, gets a, well I don't know what.

What is the MVS JCL command to translate EBCDIC to ASCII or vice versa?

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun May 11, 2014 11:31 pm

tomsalwasser wrote:OK Steve, let's see how much useless information we've retained. A little mainframe trivia here. First to reply gets a, gets a, well I don't know what.

What is the MVS JCL command to translate EBCDIC to ASCII or vice versa?

We never used ASCII!:)

rlkeeney · Post by **rlkeeney** » Mon May 12, 2014 5:26 am

tomsalwasser wrote:What is the MVS JCL command to translate EBCDIC to ASCII or vice versa?

Don't know the commands but we still use an IBM main frame where I work. Probably a lot newer than the ones you are talking about. THey stil use Cobol, JCL, and EBCDIC.

cooch366 · Post by **cooch366** » Mon May 12, 2014 6:35 am

tomsalwasser wrote:What is the MVS JCL command to translate EBCDIC to ASCII or vice versa?

WOW you got me thinking, and can't come up with anything. So just like my lottery tickets. I lose....

cooch366 · Post by **cooch366** » Mon May 12, 2014 6:41 am

rlkeeney wrote:Don't know the commands but we still use an IBM main frame where I work. Probably a lot newer than the ones you are talking about. THey stil use Cobol, JCL, and EBCDIC.

Maybe I polish up my resume (do they still use these, or is there some new fangled app, ie:FACEaume reTWIT) and start a third career. Are they hiring?:)

Have code will travel....

rlkeeney · Post by **rlkeeney** » Mon May 12, 2014 7:39 am

cooch366 wrote:Are they hiring?:) .

Don't think they are hiring. There are very few people that leave. I only know one that didn't retire.

The mainframe has been upgraded several times since I started working there. It doesn't resemble the mainframes of old. There are a lot of them still around else IBM would not be supporting them.

tomsalwasser · Post by **tomsalwasser** » Mon May 12, 2014 10:15 am

I used to deal with receiving tapes, most from other mainframes in and coded in EBCDIC but a few odd balls in ASCII. By placing OPTCD=Q in the DCB section of your JCL the tape would be translated to EBCDIC while it was being read. Also had to create tapes with the same issue. Most were EBCDIC but some places needed ASCII and OPTCD=Q workd on output too. I don't think anybody's making many tapes these days though.

Yes, there does seem to be a lot of untapped Cobol talent here. I second the notion...have code will travel. Or how about holding up a sign "will code for tools".

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