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hankpac said:
They are every where. Deep in the desert near imperial tx, they were raiding my friend’s shrimp ponds. On the beach at Corpus, I was throwing them cat fish to keep them out of my bait. I’ve seen them in the Sierra and on both coasts.
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Imperial, TX is no where special to visit. A friend and I left a ranch we were hunting in Brewster County, just east of the park. Headed north, he looks at me and said "You're going to think I'm full of shit, but if she's working we are getting lunch in Imperial. It will be the best brisket burrito you've ever had in your life." I said "BULLSHIT! There is nothing good in Imperial Texas!"

Well, the Abuela was working. Her food trailer set up at an old abandoned gas station, and the smoker running. Brisket burrito, homemade tortillas, homemade salsa, pinto beans. Super clean set-up she had. I paid her cash, and gave her 20% extra. Some of the best food I've ever had, and did not make us sick. Who would have though?

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@Fx51LP308, ahhhh, memories of switching over from VM to MVS & VSAM to DB2. But it did not end there. Calls @ 2:00 AM because a DB call hung the entire mainframe up & backend production which started at 5:00PM and most times was hard pressed to get done by the time I got in @ 5:00AM. There was an elusive bug that showed up every 5 years or so and we were never able to replicate it but always manifested itself in this major job stream. Retirement is good now!

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Maxwell said:
@Fx51LP308, ahhhh, memories of switching over from VM to MVS & VSAM to DB2. But it did not end there. Calls @ 2:00 AM because a DB call hung the entire mainframe up & backend production which started at 5:00PM and most times was hard pressed to get done by the time I got in @ 5:00AM. There was an elusive bug that showed up every 5 years or so and we were never able to replicate it but always manifested itself in this major job stream. Retirement is good now!

Maxwell
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Yeah, all the batch back-end stuff (that required hotel stays) was MVS/XA then ESA mainframe. Although, in my case, it was IMS DB/DC (well the DB part (DL1 - Hierarchical)). We used standard CICS for the communication. Now, for back-end batch, these guys would always convert the data bases to flat files and process the flat files, then re-converting them to DBs.

At the interim company beyond this one but before Wall St., it was still mainframe and CICS, but it was standard DB2. We used a CICS facilitator product called TELON. It helped you reduce time drawing CICS Maps and debugging them. Funny. For the longest time, I did not realize that DB2 Tables were just glorified VSAM files, anyway! :eek:

Wall St. was pure Client/Server using SUN/OS V880 and V1280 servers and using Sybase ASE for the DB. Of course, Solaris 8 and 10 workstations.
 
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Fx51LP308 said:
Yeah, all the batch back-end stuff (that required hotel stays) was MVS/XA then ESA mainframe. Although, in my case, it was IMS DB/DC (well the DB part (DL1 - Hierarchical)). We used standard CICS for the communication. Now, for back-end batch, these guys would always convert the data bases to flat files and process the flat files, then re-converting them to DBs.

At the interim company beyond this one but before Wall St., it was still mainframe and CICS, but it was standard DB2. We used a CICS facilitator product called TELON. It helped you reduce time drawing CICS Maps and debugging them. Funny. For the longest time, I did not realize that DB2 Tables were just glorified VSAM files, anyway! :eek:

Wall St. was pure Client/Server using SUN/OS V880 and V1280 servers and using Sybase ASE for the DB. Of course, Solaris 8 and 10 workstations.
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Fx51LP308 said:
Yeah, all the batch back-end stuff (that required hotel stays) was MVS/XA then ESA mainframe. Although, in my case, it was IMS DB/DC (well the DB part (DL1 - Hierarchical)). We used standard CICS for the communication. Now, for back-end batch, these guys would always convert the data bases to flat files and process the flat files, then re-converting them to DBs.

At the interim company beyond this one but before Wall St., it was still mainframe and CICS, but it was standard DB2. We used a CICS facilitator product called TELON. It helped you reduce time drawing CICS Maps and debugging them. Funny. For the longest time, I did not realize that DB2 Tables were just glorified VSAM files, anyway! :eek:

Wall St. was pure Client/Server using SUN/OS V880 and V1280 servers and using Sybase ASE for the DB. Of course, Solaris 8 and 10 workstations.
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I was the only one that did CICS in the beginning. Some of my error messages in the test region were, ET call home, after you error entering data you are now on double secret probation, you are now in the house of the rising sun, little red riding hood I would like to ……and so on . A few times I did not take out all of my test messages, I thought it was funny!

I remember Telon…and workbench. Everyone thought it was great until it was not and the company refused to support it.

We had some system programmer that wrote an internal product that took your screen layout and converted it to a map. You just had to select alpha or numeric field, protected or not, highlight, and your notified data tag & field name ( where to move the output).

Still miss COBOLII CICS DB2 programming.

Maxwell
 
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