Planet MVS web site

• Updated Dave's TN3270 FAQ page to add some new entries: What works and EHLLAPI
• Updated Dave's TN3270 page to correct link to Attachmate TN3270 emulator. A link to a EHLLAPI product was added to the TN3270 information section.

• Added Rumba to Dave's TN3270 page.
• Created a new Dave's TN3270 FAQ page
• Added a new joke to my mainframe jokes page:

  Why did the systems programmer cross the road?
  To recreate the problem...

  The worst part is I think I made this up...

• Changed links on S390 Assember FAQ page for: Michel Castelein:
  • S/370-S/390 Assembler Fundamentals
  • High Level Assembler
• Reworked TN3270 page. Links to Host on Demand and PowerTerm were added. The useless TN3270 Server section was deleted.

• Planet MVS is the featured "website of the week" at Mainframe Week. An unexpected honor, thanks guys!
  
  
• Updated the Flowerbox page with a submission from John Ferguson of a Link step flowerbox.
  THIS IS FIRST TIME ANYBODY SENT ME A FLOWERBOX!.
• Wow, I got a second flowerbox after 2 years of begging, David G T Rawson sent me this!
  
  As a reminder, Planet MVS is "Flower Box"-ware.
  
  
• Leslie Somos saw my Green Card collection and offered to send me a S/360 and S/370 reference card via snail mail. I plan to scan the complete S/360 card into PDF format sometime in the future. Thanks, Leslie!
  
  
• Updated the MVS Freeware page:
  • Prycroft Six Pty Ltd has [IMON (Interactive Monitor for OS/390 | REVIEW (TSO Fullscreen browser) | MVT software ]
  • Free punch cards!
    
    
    
    
  • Frank Clarke's REXX/MVS code examples and utilities has [ Basic building blocks | Utility routines | Complex examples ]
  • BASS Home page has [ TSM Linux/390 | FIXDSCB ]
• Updated the Misc Mainframe page:
  • Mainframe Week magazine
  • Jim Keohane's Tips for TechTarget & Search390
  • Bob DuCharme's book Operating Systems Handbook formerly published by McGraw-Hill is now on the web. It includes a 91 page chapter on MVS that Bob says would be good for those new to MVS. Bob's latest book is XSLT Quickly
• Updated the Humor page to add a funny post from a newsgroup and reworked the Jokes page.
• Non-Mainframe related. Noting the loss of two greats recently:
  • Chuck Jones I, like most of you, grew up watching Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd (rumored to be the developer of Quickwef), Daffy Duck and others.
  • Waylon Jennings I've been to Luckenbach but it's hard to find because there are no signs. People keep stealin' 'em!

Planet MVS has been hit hard by this recession and had to layoff most of it's workers. The former CEO of Planet MVS got millions of course and told the Planet MVS employees to buy more Planet MVS stock while selling his right before the stock value was about to plunge. You may have seen the ex-CEO of Planet MVS invoking the 5th and are questioning why he is still using the corporate Planet MVS jet. Well he's now a lobbiest for Planet MVS and we are requesting a government bailout. What's good for Planet MVS is good for the country. If you taxpayers don't bail out Planet MVS then the terrorists have already won. Hey Planet MVS even had to resort to a bribe to win at the Olympics because Lionel Dyck's Freeware page are lots better skaters than we are. It really hurt when the crowd booed when Planet MVS won the gold. We got further bad press when John Walker Lindh was arrested wearing a Planet MVS t-shirt. And that's why Planet MVS hasn't been updated since September.