SPARTA News January 2004
January 2004
SPARTA Chapter President’s Corner
- by Brad Carson
Welcome to 2004; hope you all had a good holiday break. Since our
November meeting I have been able to get a job as an "Automation
Analyst" for HP on the GlaxoSmithKline account. I want to thank
John Bryant for letting me know that this position was available (just
proving that Networking and Friends are the best thing to have when
looking for another job). So far I've learned that for an FDA Validated
system the paperwork needed to make a change is HUGE, to make a tiny
change to the SA/390 automation policy required a 30 page document!
GSK has plenty of work for me to do with SA/390 on their MERPS systems (Two locations, four parallel sysplexes, 14 z/OS images, GDPS, and XRC). As always there is something new to learn with these systems and sysplexes. Since IBM built these sysplex systems there is always room for improvements and some cleaning up with what IBM has left behind. My spreadsheet of desired changes is now up to 14 items and growing.
Besides working at GSK, I am keeping my systems skills up by still doing part time work for Data Design Associates. On that front, I have successfully migrated all their development work off of OS/390 2.9 and onto z/OS 1.4 as well as a migration to CICS/TS 2.2 and DB2 7.1.
This month we will be having a presentation from Goeff Sinn, CEO of The Salem Group. I look forward to seeing you all on the 27th at LabCorp RTP. Be sure to ask for Tommy Thomas. Subs, drinks, and dessert will be provided.
2003-2004 SPARTA
Board of Directors
Brad Carson - President
GlaxoSmithKline 919-483-2348
5 Moore Drive; D.111
RTP, NC 27709
Duane Reaugh - Vice President
DTS Software 919-833-8426
2913 Wake Forest Road
Raleigh, NC 27609-7841
Mike Lockey - Secretary
Guilford Co. Information Services 336-641-6235
201 N. Eugene St. 336-227-2021 (Home)
Greensboro, NC 27401
Tommy Thomas - Treasurer
LabCorp 336-436-4178
231 Maple Ave, Koury Ctr 3rd Fl. 919-361-7267
Burlington, NC 27215
Ed Webb - Communications Director
SAS Institute 919-531-4162
SAS Campus Drive 919-362-0232 (Home)
Cary, NC 27513
Meetings
Meetings are scheduled for the last Tuesday evening of each month (except no meeting in December), with optional dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m.
These monthly meetings usually are held at LabCorp’s Center for Molecular Biology and Pathology (CMBP) near the Research Triangle Park (see last page). Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into LabCorp complex and turn Left to the CMBP Building. In the lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Tommy Thomas. Tommy will escort you to the conference room.
Call for Articles
If you have any ideas for speakers, presentations, newsletter articles, or are interested in taking part in a presentation, PLEASE contact one of the Board of Directors with your suggestions.
Newsletter Mailings
The SPARTA chapter policy is to mail a copy of the monthly chapter newsletter to each SPARTA member, NaSPA national, each advertiser, persons who have requested a copy, and to other chapters who send us a copy of their newsletter. The newsletter is mailed about the 20th of each month so you can prepare for the meeting. The mailing list is maintained by Mike Lockey at (336) 412-6235; if you have corrections or problems receiving your newsletter, call Mike.
September 2003 CBT Tape Online
The directory and files from the latest CBT tape V462 (dated September 15, 2003) are available from www.cbttape.org.
If you need a complete tape, contact Brad Carson at GlaxoSmithKline or Ed Webb at SAS (see Board of Director’s list for contact info).
Minutes of the November 25th, 2003 Meeting
•Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Brad Carson, the Chapter President.
•Thirteen (13) people were present; twelve (12) were members.
•Everyone in the room introduced themselves, told where they worked, and briefly described their job function.
•Minutes of the October 2003 meeting were accepted as published in the September 2003 newsletter.
•Tommy Thomas, the Chapter Treasurer, gave the Treasurer’s report. As of November 25, 2003, the balance is $1104.42. A motion was made and approved to accept the Treasurer’s report.
OLD BUSINESS
•Articles are needed for this newsletter. If you would like to write an article for this newsletter, please contact Ed Webb. Keep in mind that you don’t really need to write the article, it can be an article that you read that you would like to share with the membership.
•You can access the SPARTA Web site, just point your Web browser to this URL: http://www.spartanc.org. Please send any comments or suggestions about the SPARTA web site to Mike Lockey. Be sure to check our web site every once in a while to see any new or changed information.
•Brad Carson reminded everyone to continue to make sure the conference room is clean before we leave the meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
•Future Speakers and Topics:
January 2004 - ????? by Jim Horne of Lowes (Ed. note: replaced because Jim has a schedule conflict)
Other ideas:
- New release of IOF - Triangle Systems
- CMG Conference - Jim Horne of Lowe's
If you have suggestions about speakers and topics, contact Duane Reaugh.
•Food for the January 2004 meeting will be subs, sodas, and dessert.
•The January SPARTA meeting will be held at LabCorp in RTP. Be sure to ask for Tommy Thomas.
•Thanks to Tommy Thomas of LabCorp for hosting the November meeting.
•The business portion of the meeting ended at 7:40 p.m.
•Ciprian "Chip" Popoviciu from Cisco Systems spoke about IPv6. Topics that Chip discussed were:
IPv6 History and Market
IP Address Allocation History
IPv6 Business Case
IPv6 Technology Scope
Differences between IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing
Types of IPv6 Addresses
Global Unicast Addresses (RFC 2374)
Address Allocation
Address Type Prefixes
Link-Local and Site-Local Unicast Address
Interface IDs
Multicast Address Format
Solicited-Node Multicast Address
Eui-64
Interface Address Set
IPv6 header compared to IPv4 header
IPv6 extension headers
IPv6 Header Options (RFC 2460)
IPv6 Link Local Operation
Neighbor Discovery - Neighbor Solicitation
Stateless auto-configuration
Routing
IPv6 Multicast Routing
Migration Strategies
NAT-PT for IPv6
IPv6 Transition - Tasks and Methods
6to4 Tunnel
6to4 Relay
Host Configurations
Conclusions
•The meeting ended at 9:05 p.m.
Treasurer’s Report for January 2004
contributed by Tommy Thomas
The balance in the account is $ 1165.72 as of January 18, 2004.
Financial Report
2/01/2003 through 01/18/2004
INCOME
Opening Balance 672.90
Dues 860.00
Misc. 0.00
TOTAL INCOME $1532.90
EXPENSES
Food 549.78
Petty Cash 0.00
Bank Service Fees 0.00
P.O. Box 38.00
Web Site 38.70
TOTAL EXPENSE $ 626.48
BANK BALANCE 906.42
PETTY CASH($160) 109.49
TOTAL CASH $1015.91
Items of Interest
SPARTA Food Menu for 2004
contributed by Chris Blackshire
Jan - Subs
Feb - BarBQ
Mar - Pizza
Apr - Chicken
May - Subs
June - BarBQ
July - Pizza
Aug - Chicken
Sept - Subs
Oct - BarBQ
Nov - Pizza
Use EDCWLPA to avoid SMP/E problems
contributed by Ed Webb
CEE.SCEESAMP member EDCWLPA is a dynamic LPA member for certain EDC and CEL modules that are not in SCEELPA. These modules reside in CEE.SCEERUN and SCEERUN2 which must be APF-authorized.
Of particular interest for z/OS maintenance is module EDCRNLST. If you compress SCEERUN, as I do, when mass-applying maint., you might have some linkedits "sort of fail" with Joblog messages:
IEW4009I FETCH FAILED FOR MODULE EDCRNLST FROM DDNAME -LNKLST-...
IEW4005I FETCH FOR MODULE EDCRNLST FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- FAILED....
CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE EDCRNLST, RETURN CODE....
And in the linkedit sysprint:
IEW2474I 9912 LIBRARY RENAME MODULE EDCRNLST COULD NOT BE LOADED OR IS NOT THE CORRECT VERSION.
By using the EDCWLPA member in a SET PROG=xx command or issuing the SETPROG LPA... command that contains EDCRNLST, you can avoid this FETCH failure, LinkEdit message and possible problems.
Humor
People Over 40 Should Be Dead
contributed by Ed Webb
People over 40 should be dead.
Here's why ..
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us over 40 shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
As children, we would ride in cars without air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
Horrors!
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
NO CELL PHONES!!!!!
Unthinkable!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no
video games at all, no 999 channels on cable, video
tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends!
We went outside and found them.
We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
They were called.........accidents!
No one was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.
Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own.
Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law and what we were going to get when we got home was much worse than what we were facing at that moment.
Imagine that!
That generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them!
Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids without politicians legislating our lives, for our own good !!!!!
One Liners
contributed by Chris Blackshire
1. Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.
2. Marriage changes passion. Suddenly you're in bed with a relative.
3. I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?" She hit me.
4. I don't do drugs. I get the same effect just standing up fast.
5. Sign in a Chinese Pet Store: "Buy one dog, get one flea..."
6. I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here.
7. I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.
8. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
9. I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.
10. There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and S**thead's.
11. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
12. I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.
13. Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
14. How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
5. Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?
16. Why is it that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked?
17. Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
18. Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom's wise words:? "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been!"
19. A good friend will come and bail you out of
jail... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!"--
Don’t Forget the Next SPARTA Meeting
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Location: LabCorp in the RTP
Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into LabCorp complex and turn left to the CMBP Building. In the lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Tommy Thomas. Tommy will escort you to the conference room.
Free Food: Subs, Drinks, Dessert
Program:
Service Replication for the Masses
Speakers:
Geoff Sinn, CEO of The Salem Group
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