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[BrotherBart]

Were you doing RTTY on HF radio at 50 or back on the TTY's at 110?

TTY originally with APRANET and also the RJE station we used with the IBM 370/158. We were big time there. One of the first places in the Southwest with disk drives on the mainframe and DOS/VS. Around 1975-1976. We were thrilled when we upgraded main memory to 16K. We could run payroll and accounts payable at one time. Our fastest comm link was the lady who carried the decks of punched cards from the keypunch area to the computer room. Guess you could call it JackieNet.

So yeah, hearth.com looks mighty fast to me.

 

[St_Earl]

the problems i (and others) were/(are?) having (are?)/were real.

at least now for myself, i can report the site is working properly.
no hesitation getting into threads like since the changeover.

and i know it wasn't my computer or connection because i haven't had any problems on any other site.

but yeah. i'm no longer having the same slowness i was getting here before.

as always, thank you for this terrific site.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

So what did you do there?

I was known to play with what this actually produced instead of what the vendor had originally provided.


* $$ JOB JNM=GENSUP3,USER='BEAR',CLASS=0,DISP=D
* $$ LST LST=00E,FNO=0001,CLASS=S,DISP=D
* $$ PUN PUN=00D,FNO=CARD,CLASS=S,DISP=D
// JOB GENSUP3
// ASSGN SYSLST,X'00E'
// ASSGN SYS001,SYSRES,SHR
// ASSGN SYS002,SYSRES,SHR
// ASSGN SYS003,SYSRES,SHR
// ASSGN SYSLNK,SYSRES,SHR
// OPTION CATAL
// EXEC PGM=ASSEMBLY
TITLE 'DOS/VS SUPERVISOR F,SYSRES=3350,MOD=138,NPARTS=5' 00420034
SUPVR X00500033
ID=F, X00550033
ERRLOG=RDE, X00650033
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PAGEIN=12, X00800033
PHO=YES, REQUIRED FOR POWER/VS X00850033
POWER=YES, 'P O W E R / V S' X00900033
TP=NO 01000033
CONFG X01050033
MODEL=138,FP=YES 01070034
STDJC X01150033
ACANCEL=NO, X01200033
DECK=NO, X01250033
DUMP=NO, X01300033
LINES=60, X01350033
SPARM=YES, X01400033
XREF=NO 01450033
FOPT X01500033
AB=YES, X01550033
CBF=NO, X01600033
DASDFP=(2,2), (TO ALLOW SYSRES ON CHANNELS 1-4) X01650033
DOC=3277, X01670034
ECPREAL=YES, REQUIRED FOR POWER/VS X01750033
ERRQ=10, X01800033
EVA=(10,10), X01850033
GETVIS=YES, X01900033
IDRA=YES, X01950033
IT=YES, X02000033
OC=YES, X02050033
OLTEP=NO, X02100033
PC=YES, X02150033
PCIL=YES, X02200033
PD=NO, X02250033
PFIX=YES, REQUIRED FOR POWER/VS X02300033
PSLD=12, X02350033
RELLDR=YES, REQUIRED FOR POWER/VS X02400033
SKSEP=YES, X02450033
SLD=12, X02500033
SYSFIL=YES, X02550033
TOD=YES, X02600033
VSAM=YES, X02650033
WAITM=NO, X02700033
FASTTR=YES, X02750033
XECB=24,JA=(25,25,25,25,25), X02800033
ZONE=NO 02850033
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BLKMPX=YES, X02950033
BMPX=YES, X03000033
DISK=3350, X03020034
TAPE=7 03100033
VSTAB X03150033
RSIZE=2024K, X03200033
VSIZE=4572K, X03250033
BUFSIZE=85, X03300033
SVA=(800K,120K) 03350033
ALLOC X03400033
F1=172K, POWER/VS (RJE) X03450033
F2=900K, X03500033
F3=900K, X03500033
F4=900K 03500033
ALLOCR X03550033
BGR=32K, X03600033
F4R=30K, X03650033
F3R=30K, X03650033
F2R=30K, X03650033
F1R=22K 03700033
IOTAB X03750033
BGPGR=25, X03800033
CHANQ=50, X
D3350=16, X03870034
D3420=16, X04100033
F1PGR=10, X04150033
F2PGR=25, X04200033
F3PGR=25, X04200033
F4PGR=25, X04200033
IODEV=40, X04250033
JIB=255, X04300033
NRES=10 REQUIRED FOR VSAM II 04350033

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ASSGN SYSLOG,X'01F' 05700033
ASSGN SYSREC,X'240' 05750033
ASSGN SYSCAT,X'240' VSAM MASTER CATALOG 05800033
DPD X06300033
UNIT=X'240', X06350033
VOLID=SYSRES, X06400033
CYL=400 06420034
SEND 06500033
END
/*
// EXEC LNKEDT
/&
* $$ EOJ

 

[BrotherBart]

Groan. I swore in retirement I would never look at JCL again. So much for that! Thanks just a whole bunch.

Night operator on the 370. If I had a buck for every time I typed "G OOE" I could have retired at 25. Or fixed somebody's busted JCL because you did not want to have to wake up a drunk programmer.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

the problems i (and others) were/(are?) having (are?)/were real.

at least now for myself, i can report the site is working properly.
no hesitation getting into threads like since the changeover.

and i know it wasn't my computer or connection because i haven't had any problems on any other site.

but yeah. i'm no longer having the same slowness i was getting here before.

as always, thank you for this terrific site.

I don't believe that anyone here said there weren't issues for some of the folks using the forum.

Actually not having any problems on any other sites is not an indication of your computer or connection being fine and dandy or this forum misbehaving.

I can over the course of a month have problems not related to any site or my computer but somewhere in the path between a site and my computer, frequently only one of the sites appears to be slow and all others appear to be fine.

Upon closer look a piece of hardware in between goes pfft or gets blocked due to many reasons, this can happen in the weirdest of ways and sometimes it is caused by the folks that run the network operations centers in response to various events taking place.

All it takes is for some duffus to run a DOS attack against any of the network devices between you and the site you are trying to get to. Most major hosting companies have to deal with this on an ongoing basis. The effect you generally see is vastly inconsistent response times. If you are on a Satellite system various weather events can cause issues.

Lots of things to look at, lots of possibilities, plenty of places in between to be in the way. More than most people realize.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Groan. I swore in retirement I would never look at JCL again. So much for that! Thanks just a whole bunch.

Night operator on the 370. If I had a buck for every time I typed "G OOE" I could have retired at 25. Or fixed somebody's busted JCL because you did not want to have to wake up a drunk programmer.

Being drunk and on call was a firing offense at every place I worked. I also have stuff for the OS/MVS, and VM side of the ledger and can actually IPL and run a number of the old systems.

 

[BrotherBart]

We have jacked Craig's thread enough. We will have to do a good old days PM sometime.

 

[St_Earl]

I don't believe that anyone here said there weren't issues for some of the folks using the forum.

Actually not having any problems on any other sites is not an indication of your computer or connection being fine and dandy or this forum misbehaving.

I can over the course of a month have problems not related to any site or my computer but somewhere in the path between a site and my computer, frequently only one of the sites appears to be slow and all others appear to be fine.

Upon closer look a piece of hardware in between goes pfft or gets blocked due to many reasons, this can happen in the weirdest of ways and sometimes it is caused by the folks that run the network operations centers in response to various events taking place.

All it takes is for some duffus to run a DOS attack against any of the network devices between you and the site you are trying to get to. Most major hosting companies have to deal with this on an ongoing basis. The effect you generally see is vastly inconsistent response times. If you are on a Satellite system various weather events can cause issues.

Lots of things to look at, lots of possibilities, plenty of places in between to be in the way. More than most people realize.

^^^
but that people in different regions describe the same type of problems make an individual event on my specific chain of connection seem the far less likely explanation.

and there were a few comments that did indeed imply that these issues were to do with the user's connection or equipment.
as well as more reasonable folks saying that indeed there seemed to be issues.

so. just for those couple of comments that were of the "it's fine for me so your equipment is junk or you connection sucks" nature, i say that's a typical and easy reply.



in any event, i am still pleased to relate that all is well now.
and reiterate my thanks for this great site.