telnet, rlogin, ssh, IP's and ports (was: Java Error)
(Funny how I so often get port 23 mixed up with 25, but never 25 confused with 23. A strange form of lysdexia I think.) Anyway I think it will take me some time to fully understand all you've written. But one question to clarify. Are you saying that I can setup the telnet port (usually 23) to be a TSO connection and the rlogin port (usually 513) to connect to rlogind -- which seems to me to be the most usual setup -- OR I can use one port, say telnet 23, and take advantage of VIPA's such that I get to either TSO or rlogind via a (virtual) IP address? So in one case I change the port number, and in the other case I change the IP address? -Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Java Error Chris said: Now we can be thankful for VIPAs which have the property not to tie an IP address to an interface but to tie an IP address to an IP node or, even better as in fact here, to tie an IP address to a particular application on an IP node. In fact, using VIPAs we no longer need a port number in order to locate a server application. This, however, is not possible because the underlying IP demultiplexing logic insists on processing a port number. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
The PSI Letter V4
SABENA? There were many interpretations of airline names. As always on the Internet, someone has a better collection than me. http://www.travel-images.com/airline-acronyms.html It misses Back Every Afternoon for BEA - one I always found apposite. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Printing prom ADCD.
Hi everybody! I'm a newbie in Mainframe, and i can't find info about 3278 Printer emulation over TCPIP. Can anybody help me to find info about this topic? My host system is a ADCD z/OS V1R4 Summer. Thanks in advance... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: The PSI Letter V4
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 10:30:28 -, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SABENA? There were many interpretations of airline names. As always on the Internet, someone has a better collection than me. http://www.travel-images.com/airline-acronyms.html It misses Back Every Afternoon for BEA - one I always found apposite. It also misses one of my favourites. The rules that allow airlines to fly long distances over oceans using planes with only two engines are called ETOPS - 'Extended-range Twin-engine Operation Performance Standards'. Some wag suggested it really stood for 'Engines Turning Or Passengers Swimming'... equally apposite. Mike http://www.corestore.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Any recommendation on Z9-109 can share
Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi all, Our shop plan to replace the 2 sets of IBM model 2064-2C5 machine and we are connected by parallel sysplex with sysplex timer 9037-002. I found the model S18 with two books will be a good choice but I have the following question? It is important to understand BOOK concept. Think about 2064 as single-book machine. You have several CPs active in your machine. However there are more CPs inside, waiting for upgrade. In z9 you can have one up to four books, each one contains memory and CPs. You can have up to 8 CPs using one book, max. 18 CPs on two-book, etc. However you can also have i.e. 5 CPs on two-book model as well as on single-book model. Two books in this case gives you better possibility to grow up (upgrade), better redundancy. But no CPU power. Both machines have the same MIPS or MSU number both have the same capacity marker: 705. 2094 S18 705 2094 S08 705 S18 model MCMs=2 available PUs=24 Max availabel sub-capacity CP PU=8 Standard SAPs =4 Standard spares = 2 CP/IFL/ICF.ZAAP/ZIIP = 18 max memoary = 256G max channel = 1024 Question: 1. Can I order each book with 4 CPs that mean total 8 CPs. AFAIK yes. However AFAIK you cannot decide about CP location. 2. where can I find the actual process model ? I only found, 2094-401 to 2094-408 (1 book) 2094-501 to 2094-508 (2 oooks) 2094-601 to 2094-608 (3 books) 2094-701 to 2094-754 (4 books) from www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zeries/lspr/zSerieszOS16MI.html See explanation above. 4xx, 5xx and 6xx models have reduced power per CP. It is done for better granularity of CPU power, which was the issue for smaller machines. It is not your problem (2C5 is big machine). 3. Can I still use the sysplex timer 9037-002 without using the STP ? Yes. 4. Except the 8 CPs allocate half in each bookis there another good choice? See above. IMHO CP location is not a customer choice. 5. If I buy another new one S18 model...is it too complex to interconnect with the 2 sets of 2064-2C5...as you know the HCD ..is quite different.. any comment will be appreciate ... It is not complex. The only important difference is multiple channel subsystem (CSS) concept. You add processor, then define CSS (new thing for z/990 and z9), then define LPARs and channels. In fact you can think about CSSes as separate machines. Each have 256 limit for CHPIDs, each have 15 limit for LPARs, etc. HTH -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Competing with IBM
IMHO it is not off-topic. It is topic-less. Phil met some guy in Frankfurt. They had some coffee, even beer. He (they unnamed guy) was traveling by a train. Veery exciting. Did I miss something ? Oh I forgot, my English is bad, my German even worse, however I vaguely recollect that Hauptbahnhof is rather German word for railway station, the main one. It's not English, is it ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland Phil Payne wrote: Fierce but fair? An offline comment (it's Friday) and I think it's pertinent. I fought IBM tooth and nail from 1978 to 1992. Throughout that time I found IBM and all other competitors - at management levels - to be fair and honest people. Some might find it amazing, but I think I can claim (some) true friends at most management levels in all PCMs. There are even one or two within IBM who find the aßhole business distressing. There were a lot of good guys out there. Niggles - yes - but mostly at the fringes. When you got to the policy people - no problems. I had several occasions when something IBM Confidential (real, not trivial) turned up. This was in Germany, in the 1980s. We called IBM Stuttgart - Industry Relations - and the response was always the same: Don't touch it, we will collect it. To my shame, I've forgotten his name. An IBM lawyer used to come up to Frankfurt by train and I would collect him at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. Herr Dr Something. I'm really ashamed at not remembering his name. Always had a pipe in his mouth - never to my experience lit it. Immensely respected within our organisation. We drove to our offices, he opened his legal-type floppy leather briefcase and dropped the documents in, we shook hands, coffee was offered and accepted, we set off for the Hauptbahnhof and stopped off for a beer on the way. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question JQES utilization
JQEs are the number of JOBs on the queue. So you want to increase them to a large enough number to support the highest number of jobs you have residing on Spool at any one point in time. I always max it out (or as close to max as possible). You need to make sure your checkpoint data set is large enough to support the increase. I think there is a formula in the JES2 Init and Tuning guide that will help you make that determination. Or you can increase your jes2 checkpoint on the fly with a Reconfiguration dialogue. I did this a lot under OS/390 V2.10. It is very easy. You do not need to do anything with OUTDEF that is for sysout. You need to work with JOBNUMs. Also check to see if you have a flood of jobs coming in when you see these messages, it could be a scheduling issue or a testing issue. One user can submit a lot of jobs if there are all in one PDS member and the users says SUB on the command line. I would probably increase it to 32000 jobs and just leave it at that. If you are adding more systems or environments coming into your MAS, you may have to upgrade to z/OS sooner than later. JES2 at OS/390 V2.10 can only support so much stuff. If you do not have any OS/390 V1.3 systems then you can go higher. Only restriction would be the size of the JES2 Check point data set. Write me offline if you would like to further discuss options to get around some of these restrictions or if you want more info on the reconfiguration process in JES2. Lizette Koehler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4
Tom Marchant wrote: [...] When Amdahl started selling processors, the operating system was free. When IBM started to charge for it, they knew how much power an Amdahl processor had and where it fit in the pricing structure. It's harder for them to know that with am emulator. What stops you from putting in faster processors, or additional processors? What stops you from using z/OS on large z/Series machine without paying for it ? You can buy license for the smallest z9BC and use the same code on 2064-2C16 bought on second-hand market. Or several machines. Or without buying any license, just pay your friendly sysprog for copy of the tapes... It's legal issue, not technical one. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:14:00 -0600, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Begin Quoted E-mail -- then why couldn't the customer buy z/OS and run the software on the machine. You don't buy z/OS. You license it to run on a particular machne. When Amdahl started selling processors, the operating system was free. When IBM started to charge for it, they knew how much power an Amdahl processor had and where it fit in the pricing structure. It's harder for them to know that with am emulator. What stops you from putting in faster processors, or additional processors? Tom Marchant End Quoted E-mail -- Excuse me for using the word buy -- I knew better that you license software. As I said, you license the software for *a particular machine.* That's the relevant phrase. You had suggested buying it and running it on another platform, which would be a violation of the licensing terms. Upgrades have always been an issue in the z environment, now others are taking note of this and trying to do the same things for other platforms. So, there are a lot of devil in the details. Like how PSI would handle the CPU serial number and upgrades to the processor number and speed. I suppose they could change the serial number on an upgrade and force the customer to deal with IBM since the software is licensed to a CPU. As you say, the devil is in the details. You've avoided the question that I asked, so I'll ask it again with emphasis. What stops *you* from putting in faster processors, or additional processors? I didn't ask about PSI upgrading the underlying hardware. Of course, PSI could, in principle, provide the same sort of processor capacity information to the operating system that modern hardware provides. Then, if you put in additional or faster processors, the MSU rating would be provided to MVS. This would be a non-trivial thing to do accurately due to the number of variables involved in system performance. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
FW: The PSI Letter V4
When Amdahl started selling processors, the operating system was free. When IBM started to charge for it, they knew how much power an Amdahl processor had and where it fit in the pricing structure. It's harder for them to know that with am emulator. What stops you from putting in faster processors, or additional processors? Rare to see so much ignorance masquerading as authority. a) IBM didn't have a clue how much power an Amdahl (or any other pocessor) had. Amdahl (and I was part of the process) declared its processors to IBM. The late (and missed) Henry Cassel's team was responsible - Tom Moore and others of the FBUPALS. Huge efforts were made to make the declaration accurate - if you under-declared the user got cheap software but IBM's sales effort would disparage the machine against its own. If you over-declared the opposite was true - you got bragging rights but the software was more expensive. And I was also one of the team that re-declared the Amdahl 5990-1100 after an IBM announcement. If you think IBM is bad, try getting CA to accept a downwards re-declaration. b) You obviously know NOTHING about emulation, or at least commercial emulation. Fundamental's FLEX-ES is controlled these days by a USB dongle that defines the permitted performance and number of engines. Yes, you can rehost onto a faster Intel processor or add engines - but FSI's code works with the dongle to deliver exactly the licensed MIPS on the number of engines licensed. You buy 8 MIPS (actually 7.9) and you get 8 MIPS. There is no uncertainty in the process whatever. It's even more complex - each dongle has a time-limited software key associated with it and the key must be refreshed periodically. (And I remember standing on the top of a fire escape in a hotel in Budapest downloading such a key into my Nokia mobile phone from an FTP site in Fremont at around 03:00am a few years back.) -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question JQES utilization
In a message dated 11/5/2006 8:36:58 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sure your checkpoint data set is large enough to support the increase. I think there is a formula in the JES2 Init and Tuning guide that will help you make that determination. Ah those gray hairsshortly after converting to 2.10 way back when. Had a similar situation and the on-call person did the CHECKPT CONFIG flawlessly, only neglected to tell the DASD person(me) about the new names. When weekend housekeeping ran it did a DEFRAG on one of the DLIB packs where the new CHECKPTs lived. JES failed to be amused...got pretty good at CONFIG there for awhile! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Any recommendation on Z9-109 can share
Date:Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:02:16 +0800 From:Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Any recommendation on Z9-109 can share Question: 1. Can I order each book with 4 CPs that mean total 8 CPs. If you order a model S18 it will be a two book machine. If you order 8 general purpose CPs, you have no control over which CPs are assigned to which book. 2. where can I find the actual process model ? I only found, 2094-401 to 2094-408 (1 book) 2094-501 to 2094-508 (2 oooks) 2094-601 to 2094-608 (3 books) 2094-701 to 2094-754 (4 books) from www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zeries/lspr/zSerieszOS16MI.html When you order an S18 machine, you also specify a capacity indicator. If you order eight CPs, the machine can be specified as a model 408, 508, 608 or 708 depending on which capacity indicator you choose. The physical model will still be an S18. All CPs on the machine are the same speed. A 401 has 1 general purpose CP and capacity indicator CP4. If you order more than eight general purpose CPs, for example 9, then the capacity indicator must be a CP7, and the CPU will have a capacity setting of 709. You are able to order a 401 capacity setting on any of an S08 (one book), S18 (two books), S28 (three books), S38 (four books), or S54 (four books). If you did this these machines would all have one general purpose CP of about 200 MIPs and a different number of uncharacterized (spare) PUs. 3. Can I still use the sysplex timer 9037-002 without using the STP ? Yes. The 9037-002 is withdrawn from marketing in December, 2006, but is still supported. GA of STP is in January or February 2007. 4. Except the 8 CPs allocate half in each bookis there another good choice? You have no choice over where the CPs go. 5. If I buy another new one S18 model...is it too complex to interconnect with the 2 sets of 2064-2C5...as you know the HCD ..is quite different.. I don't understand your question. A single IOCDS can contain the definitions for all three machines if you wanted to connect the new machine into the existing configuration. With z/OS 1.7 there is a new format IOCDS and there are coexistence PTFs and MCL updates required on the old system to support the new format IOCDS if you are down level. any comment will be appreciate ... Check out the Redbook site. See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247124.html?Open and http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247203.html?Open or just go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com and search for z9. G. Tom Russell Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs. -- Jasper FriendlyBear ... and remember to leave good news alone. -- Gracie HeavyHand -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4
In a message dated 11/5/2006 9:30:54 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can buy license for the smallest z9BC and use the same code on 2064-2C16 bought on second-hand market. Or several machines. Or without buying any license, just pay your friendly sysprog for copy of the tapes... It's legal issue, not technical one. You end paying for all MSUs in service and support. Creatively you can reduce the charges by moving the ISV software around or unloading the print servers to AIX. Guess about the only time I've every loaned anybody software was when a local service bureau was on it's way out and had lost many of it's people and had a big lightning enema. IBM had the service contract but the customer hadn't done maint in a while and their version of ICKDSF wouldn't format the new dasd so I cut them a copy of SAICKDSF and gave it to the SE on the account. Paying for or loaning IBM tapes is illegal in US-Property of IBM. Seen people fired for bringing in unlicensed software to large shops. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Printing prom ADCD.
In a message dated 11/5/2006 5:54:17 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and i can't find info about 3278 Printer emulation over TCPIP. Can anybody help me to find info about this topic? ITYM 3287. The newer printers IBM/Lexmark come with Eth/VTAM,Serial ports. The key is the configuration/customization. For 3287 you need a fixed VTAM LU and this is easy to accomplish with LUGRP and LUMAP in TCP PROF/PARMS then you need a VTAM definition for corresponding logmode. Think you can pick one from ISTINCLM in SYS1.SAMPLIB for 3287's. Then you need a JES/JES328X definition for the printer. If you've got IP connectivity you can LPR to just about anywhere if you know the host and printer queue name. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Saturday 04 November 2006 07:55 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Alan, there's nothing wrong with being paternal, as you put it. But sometimes the policies of IBM seem to be rather foolish. And that sometimes makes IBM's legal reps look equally foolish. As a Hercules user, I can't do the software development I'd like to, because MVS 3.8 doesn't have RACF installed; nor does it have the z/OS features that might make things so much more elegant, and efficient, for my efforts. Begging for z/System time from friends isn't really an option, because of the legal ramifications. And there's a bunch of us in the same boat! Being stuck on a barely-adequate pension, I'd like to augment my income with low-priced software that works well (maybe become another McKinney Systems? G) but IBM's policy about licensing z/OS to run under Hercules (NOT) effectively cuts me out. This after being a loyal IBM fan for nearly 40 years. (grumble) Amen, Rick. I've got ideas that I'd like to play with but cannot for these very same reasons. In my case, it's after 25+ years (including college days) of being loyal to IBM. The sad thing is that for my prototype application, I'm having to use Visual C++ Express on Windows. I really don't want to (WD4z, anyone?). But the price is right. (Heck, if I could find free time on a BS2000/OSD or MSP box, I'd take it. Close enough.) Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling. --Robert B Wilson English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe Pierret [for Alain LaBonté] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SHOWzOS 714
The internal beta report some issue but with a little help I was able to fix them. This version will be public for all as an X-MAS release but it seems some z/OS R8 installation won't wait til this so here it is on request. Please drop me an email an I'll reply at the end of next week. What's new *$714RS0806 * Implement enhancements contributed by John Hamlet JH0806 * Unicode display on z/OS R8 (Eyecatcher IR8) JH0806 * ABENDS0C7 in V64USE00 for shared memory objects JH0806 * Implement enhancements contributed by Roland Schiradin RS1006 * If you run different DB2 on the same image make sure RS1106 * SHOWzOS runs with the highest level of SDSNLOAD andRS1106 * SDSNEXIT. Otherwise you might get abends while RS1106 * running SHOWzOS. Alternate you can omit those libaries RS1106 * but SHOWzOS is unable to show the real DB2 Version.RS1106 * The CICS Region display contains only CICS regions RS1106 * with MRO connections. Only those are registered in the RS1106 * SUDB pool. RS1106 * DIAG 204 subtype 6 for z800 and z890 RS1106 * Identify zAAP in the display (z900 and higher) RS1106 * CSRSI VM-Info missingRS1006 * ISPF display ISPCFIG/ISPCFIGU data like ISPVCALL RS1006 * SMS display Libname for optical drives RS1006 * SMS display LibID for libraries RS1006 * SMS display Volser for each Storage Group and theRS1006 * capacity, free and total used for each storage group RS1006 * Decimal ASID for LX and Name/Token display RS1006 * Support new DIAG204 set (easier to use) RS0906 * Old display still exist to compare the dataRS0906 * LPAR Config gets FAILCODE 39 (zIIP) RS0906 * IEAOPTxx CPENABLERS0906 * Display Cpucrit/Stgcrit for a service class RS0906 * IMS level for V9 and above RS0906 * SYSEVENT REQSVDAT SMF info for each ASID includesRS0906 * info for enclaves, zIIP and zAAP if availble RS0906 * (Section SMFD00) RS0906 * LE-Option DYNDUMP (z/OS R8, LE-OCB Version 17, HBB7730) RS0806 * Mircocode level (A.Dominguez) not for VM, Herculeus RS0806 * IPL-Statistics layout changed in z/OS R8 (HBB7730) RS0806 * GRS-RPT entry layout changed in z/OS R8 (HBB7730)RS0806 * New Event listener code z/OS R8 (HBB7730)RS0806 * MIDAW Status (HBB7709) RS0806 * GDPS Status Yes/No (HBB7707) RS0806 * Increase buffer for EZBNMIFR from 256KB to 4MB RS0806 * ABENDS0C1 in USERS68 if # of TCP/IP user is zero RS0806 * Event listener code 64 (GDPS)RS0806 * Bug AIF in IOSCDR wrong (changed) Mark ZeldenRS0806 Kind reagards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Any recommendation on Z9-109 can share
Tommy writes: Our shop plan to replace the 2 sets of IBM model 2064-2C5 machine and we are connected by parallel sysplex with sysplex timer 9037-002. I found the model S18 with two books will be a good choice but I have the following question? [] 1. Can I order each book with 4 CPs that mean total 8 CPs. You can order a 2094-S18 with 8 CPs, certainly. However, which books run the CPs is a technical implementation detail that might be in the hands of the IBM engineers. Work with your IBM IT Specialist on that issue. It could be that all 8 CPs will run (day to day) on the first book, and that may not be a bad thing. Is there a particular reason why you want 4 on one book and 4 on the other? (Or why you want 8?) 2. where can I find the actual process model ? I only found, 2094-401 to 2094-408 (1 book) 2094-501 to 2094-508 (2 oooks) 2094-601 to 2094-608 (3 books) 2094-701 to 2094-754 (4 books) from www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zeries/lspr/zSerieszOS16MI.html That's your choice, based on the order you place with IBM. With 8 CPs enabled the last digit will be an 8. So it'll be a -408, -508, -608, or -708, depending on your requirements. For the -708 model all 8 engines run at full speed. My guess is you're looking at a -508 model (if you are taking four 2064-2C5 systems and migrating the workload to two z9 ECs), but that's just a guess. Of course you can also vary the number of engines if something other than 8 makes sense. The IBM IT Specialist or business partner can help you figure out what makes the most sense. 3. Can I still use the sysplex timer 9037-002 without using the STP ? Yes, you can. The z9 EC still supports the Sysplex Timers. But you might want to look at STP anyway. Consider the cost of maintenance for the Sysplex Timers, for example, as well as floor space and electricity. STP is supposed to become generally available in January, 2007. You can also make this decision separately in the future. (For example, if you want to migrate the workload first, then worry about the Sysplex Timers, say, 6 months later, that's could be a perfectly reasonable strategy.) 4. Except the 8 CPs allocate half in each bookis there another good choice? Many are possible, but you'll have to sit down with a professional to look at your workload. 5. If I buy another new one S18 model...is it too complex to interconnect with the 2 sets of 2064-2C5...as you know the HCD ..is quite different.. I'm a little confused since it sounds like you want to replace the z900s with the z9 EC. Are you talking about interconnection during migration? By the way, if you don't have a DR system, you might consider keeping some number of the z900s (maybe not all) and moving them to another data center. Talk to your IBM or business partner contacts about this to see if it makes sense financially and technically. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4
Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 11/5/2006 9:30:54 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can buy license for the smallest z9BC and use the same code on 2064-2C16 bought on second-hand market. Or several machines. Or without buying any license, just pay your friendly sysprog for copy of the tapes... It's legal issue, not technical one. (Ed responses:) [...] Paying for or loaning IBM tapes is illegal in US-Property of IBM. Seen people fired for bringing in unlicensed software to large shops. OF COURSE it is illegal, not only in the US. It is as illegal as running software on bigger machine than licensed one, or on more machines. Breaking any rule from license agreement is illegal (unless law regulations allow for something). My point was it is possible to cheat IBM (illegally of course) without Hercules or PSI machine. So, it is not good excuse for denying software for PSI machine owners. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Batch RPG Question
Hello! I need to have a batch RPG program (say A) call another batch RPG program (say B) and be able to change program B and have program A execute using the modified program B, without the need to re-compile/link-edit program A. More specifically, the need is to have a common program, Y say, which will need to be modified at some later stage. A considerable number of programs, X1, X2, X3, ..., Xn, say, call program Y. When program Y changes, I do not want to deal with re-compiling (or link-editing) programs X1, X2, X3, ..., Xn. Their execution should transparently use the modified program Y. Any ideas out there? Please help. Thanks. Chris. PS. I had a similar question regarding PL/I programs the other day. The answer was using the FETCH statement... What's the equivalent for RPG? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
