Monthly Archives: August 2014

New driving companion, Mr Bear

Posted on August 20, 2014 by mark

In order to avoid looking silly talking to myself when driving I obtained a passenger to chat to. Ok, I really just wanted to buy a huge cuddly bear. Who can only just squeeze into the passenger seat.

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More MVS3.8J control blocks – Job Step control blocks

Posted on August 19, 2014 by mark

Well this was a real pain to work out. There are lots of hits on google on how to find the completion code of prior steps in later mvs releases using the SWAREQ macro… but that macro does not exist … Continue reading →

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The pains of using Fedora again, kernel releases

Posted on August 1, 2014 by mark

Yet again a simple “yum update” totally destroyed my system. That was over a week ago. Since then after trying a newer kernel and spending a little over 120 hours of fsck’ing disks I have everything back; including the website … Continue reading →

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