As a traveling consultant, my road took me to a massive Vegas Gaming operation, that runs it's shop with AS400/CICS. The legacy-4 rooms size- computer is protected more than fort Knox, and the level of trust that I earned is envious to many of the top leaders of the organization, and beyond.
Yet I see the Legacy system holding back many opportunities for success, compared to what UNIX can deliver. Fear of change + job security + paranoid security + Grey hair + Tough-guy-gambler image, keeps AS400(system i) /CICS running, with problems building up to a staggering level, that Unix can solve in a blink of an eye.
What line of thought you can say, that can be a good argument for Unix vs. AS400?
Anyone running CICS TX in a WPAR ?
In my attempts to run CICS TX 5.1.0.1 in a WPAR..... CICS fails to start due to unable to load a CICS IPC Kernel Extension. The Kernel Extension is 64 bit (so not a 32 vs 64 bit issue).
Base system/LPAR is Power8 and AIX 7.1 TL3 SP5. WPAR is versioned... (4 Replies)
Dear All,
Can someone help to command or program to transfer the file from windows to Unix server and from one unix server to another Unix server in secure way.
I would request no samba client. (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm new to this forum.
I have a problem at work. I am a RPG programmer (AS400) but i have a new project to try something in QSHELL and i'm totally new to this.
I have to make a 'list' wich contains all our AS400 directories (+ on this level the size of the directory and how many... (0 Replies)
Hi all!
Is it possible to install AIX 6.1 over preinstalled Power Systems server with AS400?.
Now hardware platfoem is identical.
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IBM had two discrete Power Architecture based hardware lines since the early 1990's. Servers running processors based on the PowerPC-AS in the AS/400... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
We (AIX) currently mount to a ZFS on the Mainframe. When one of our local users wants to transfer a file to the Mainframe, they must first run binary MVSLOGIN passing user name and password. Our mainframe will be retired soon and business processes will be transferring to an... (2 Replies)
we have a as400 5rev4 and want to use a rhel server to use as a file server. We exported a drive on the rhel box and then mounted it on the as400. We can see the top directory in our mounted as400 directory but when we attempt access subdirectories we get a no matching object error.
When we open... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am in the need of some software which will allow me to access IBM AS400 from HP unix operating system.
I could download the software from IBM site for windows OS and it is working succesfully. I need to do the same on UNIX OS.
Could you please guide me to some site... (1 Reply)
WUMP(6) BSD Games Manual WUMP(6)NAME
wump -- hunt the wumpus in an underground cave
SYNOPSIS
wump [-h] [-a arrows] [-b bats] [-p pits] [-r rooms] [-t tunnels]
DESCRIPTION
The game wump is based on a fantasy game first presented in the pages of People's Computer Company in 1973. In Hunt the Wumpus you are
placed in a cave built of many different rooms, all interconnected by tunnels. Your quest is to find and shoot the evil Wumpus that resides
elsewhere in the cave without running into any pits or using up your limited supply of arrows.
The options are as follows:
-a Specifies the number of magic arrows the adventurer gets. The default is five.
-b Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bats. The default is three.
-h Play the hard version -- more pits, more bats, and a generally more dangerous cave.
-p Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bottomless pits. The default is three.
-r Specifies the number of rooms in the cave. The default cave size is twenty-five rooms.
-t Specifies the number of tunnels connecting each room in the cave to another room. Beware, too many tunnels in a small cave can eas-
ily cause it to collapse! The default cave room has three tunnels to other rooms.
While wandering through the cave you'll notice that, while there are tunnels everywhere, there are some mysterious quirks to the cave topol-
ogy, including some tunnels that go from one room to another, but not necessarily back! Also, most pesky of all are the rooms that are home
to large numbers of bats, which, upon being disturbed, will en masse grab you and move you to another portion of the cave (including those
housing bottomless pits, sure death for unwary explorers).
Fortunately, you're not going into the cave without any weapons or tools, and in fact your biggest aids are your senses; you can often smell
the rather odiferous Wumpus up to two rooms away, and you can always feel the drafts created by the occasional bottomless pit and hear the
rustle of the bats in caves they might be sleeping within.
To kill the wumpus, you'll need to shoot it with one of your magic arrows. Fortunately, you don't have to be in the same room as the crea-
ture, and can instead shoot the arrow from as far as three or four rooms away!
When you shoot an arrow, you do so by typing in a list of rooms that you'd like it to travel to. If at any point in its travels it cannot
find a tunnel to the room you specify from the room it's in, it will instead randomly fly down one of the tunnels, possibly, if you're real
unlucky, even flying back into the room you're in and hitting you!
BSD May 31, 1993 BSD