Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/11/2006 10:46:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Universities that don't place graduates in jobs don't stay in business long. If your place of employment cares about zSeries skills, it is important to make that known to local colleges and universiti

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Darren Evans-Young
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >Other than being line mode, TSO EDIT is a *lot* more user friendly >than vi. But if you're working on multiple Unix systems, it's useful >to know an editor that will always be there. > >Then there are the people who actually like the thing. De

Re: ISPF panel question

2006-04-12 Thread Jim McAlpine
Blue Peter badges to Dave and Tom. It was a cock-up with the ISPTLIB concatenation. Thanks chaps. Jim McAlpine On 4/11/06, Thomas Conley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm configuring File Manager for DB2 and I want to remove a particular > > option from a panel so some users can't see it.

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/12/2006 8:24:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this case, two jobs are submitted simultaneously. We use CA-Scheduler for production and other test job streams. I thought that a scheduler was included with the operating system, but I am just a

Re: Storage group & PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Actually I suspected it but some bosses were scared about having so many sms >volumes with PAVs. SMS and PAV's are not connected (yet). PAV's are based on device activity and I/O queuing. Devices that are not SMS managed are still eligible for PAV's (EG: SPOOL). And, you can (through the IODF)

Re: Storage group & PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Max Scarpa
Hi Kees Actually I suspected it but some bosses were scared about having so many sms volumes with PAVs. Having many volumes defined tgo SMS even if not 'real' volumes gives me more flexibility in managing space shortages. Thank you very much MAx Scarpa Db2 sysprog -

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Shirey
Workload Manager allows for the definitions of "scheduling environments." If you were to use JES2 (or JES3, I suppose) to issue MODIFY commands to the WLM address space at particular times of the day to set the resource values, you could create some semblance of a job scheduler. It does require yo

Re: IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Aaron Walker
Page six of the referenced link, left side, bulleted item: IBM currently intends to deliver the following items for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, V6.1 in a post GA timeframe: - 64-bit enablement for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS - A Web server for z/OS, powered by Apache for use w

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Karson, Lynne (SAA)
One of the things I do for test purposes is use the following JCL at the end of the job: //STARTER EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=25,COND=(4,LT) //SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD *

Re: IBM Patents

2006-04-12 Thread Jon Brock
"Eliminated." Heh. They couldn't resist it. Jon IBM has quietly eliminated a patent it received on a method for determining who gets to use the bathroom next. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Jon Brock
Yeha, that works on my Intel Linux systems, but on my VM-hosted ones, if things are that broken, then I'm probably in 3270 mode and even "vi" doesn't work; that's when I find myself trying to remember how to use "ed." Jon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[

Re: z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/support/zos_eos_dates. html -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond J. Slisz Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS 1.6 End of

Betr.: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread N. Blekemolen
I´m afraid not, because it has not been announced yet. Have a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/index.html "Raymond J. Slisz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Verzonden door: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 12-04-2006 14:57 Antwoord a.u.b. aan IBM Mainframe Discussion List Aa

Re: z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread Porowski, Ken
Last I saw, last column is service discontinued. z/OS Program Marketing Service number VRMAnnounced Available withdrawn discontinued 5694-A01 1.07.0 2005/07/27 2005/09/30 2006/09* 2008/09* 5694-A01 1.06.0 2004/08/10 2004/09/24 2005/10/24 2007/09* 569

z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread Raymond J. Slisz
Could someone please inform me as to the end of support date for z/OS 1.6 ?? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archive

Mainframe & Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Warner Mach
I have been reading IBM-Main off and on for awhile and one of the reoccurring concerns is, of course, the phasing out of the mainframe at various shops. There is one aspect of this that, I think, has not been emphasized. This aspect was pointed out in recent Wall Street Journal column titled, 'Ap

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:17 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Job scheduling > > Hi, > > I need to schedule the execution of 26 jobs. > > This has

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Hoelscher
our sysprogs discourage (prevent?) 0M on the belief (fact?) that if such a job were to run-away and consume all available memoryon its way to ebending, there would be no room to set up abend-related control blocks in memory when it did abend - thus we are constrained to use 2047M Chris Hoelsc

Re: IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Timothy, I don't see the SOD re: Apache in the referenced announcement. Can you provide a link? Thanks, Kirk Wolf On 4/11/06, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 6.1 announced today. Details here: > > http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS206-077/ENUS206-077.PDF > > G

Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread andy corpes
Hi All, We are having discisisons regarding an optimal region size for our "standard" batch processing. Currently, we use region=0M for all of our batch jobs without any noticeable problems. Is this subparm useful anymore? it would appear that our system does not care too much, but i am concerne

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
A. Harry Williams wrote: Let's see if I can get this past Darren's filters this time. From: "A. Harry Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Marist College Subject: Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion X-LSVline1: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:42:40 -0500 Mohammad Khan said: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:4

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali wrote: Hi, I need to schedule the execution of 26 jobs. This has to happen such that the 2nd job should start after the successful execution of the 1st job, the 3rd after the 2nd and so on. Moreover the output of 1st job is the input to the 2nd job. How do I accompli

Re: PDS Unload Using IEBUPDTE

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Price
Really Jim? You surprise me. BTW, Release 40 of REVIEW should be out in a week or two. :) GP Jim Marshall wrote: Snippage. > You can thank Bill Godfrey for getting everyone > started in many more utlities besides LISTPDS. > > Jim Marshall -

Re: Heads Up - LE PE - PK15432

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
The 'SEARCH ALL' APARs PK15432 and PK16765 have closed with PTFs available. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 IBM: I Bring Madness

(fwd) Re: Over my head in a JES exit

2006-04-12 Thread Clark Morris
On 10 Apr 2006 10:33:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: >> much snipped > >I believe in the context of the original writer that the JES exit(s) >were either complex or change was needed to accommodate the change in >JES2 levels. Some one spoke about the mana

(fwd) IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Clark Morris
On 11 Apr 2006 04:49:30 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) wrote: >Version 6.1 announced today. Details here: > >http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS206-077/ENUS206-077.PDF > >GA date is June 30, 2006. I'm still quickly reading through the >announceme

(fwd) Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

2006-04-12 Thread Clark Morris
On 9 Apr 2006 12:40:06 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: >On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 11:43:35 -0500, Sebastian Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:13:43 -0400, Aaron Peterson <[log in to unmask]> >> >reasonably competent with Perl, and I ha

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Print is *not* what it does. These arguments would be more interesting if you read my post(s). I originally said: "cat -- list ..." Where was the word PRINT? - -teD O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS! Let's PLAY! BALL! -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Storage group & PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Esteemed listers > > I'd like to modify our Storage Groups structure to react quickly if the SG > is in shortage of space. > > We want to create some SG with many volumes (say 100) defined but only few > (say 20) having a real DAS

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/11/2006 at 09:43 AM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I also believe that VSAM uses EXCPVR, AFAIK it uses STARTIO, which has a shorter path length than EXCP or even EXCPVR. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/12/2006 at 08:14 AM, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I place it right up there with the TSO line mode edit command - when >you have a *really* broken install, you need a tool of last resort. Other than being line mode, TSO EDIT is a *lot* more user friendly than

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/11/2006 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I was giving 'reasonable' substitutes, ie: what it does. Print is *not* what it does. It catenates its inputs into standard output, and in this case standard output was a pipe. The function of that cat wa

Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/11/2006 at 11:55 AM, Cathy Taddei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Aaron, I don't post here often, but I want you to know that z/OS >Sysprogging is not a world of men with grey beards and hairy chests. > Although we are definitely in the minority, there are plenty of >

Storage group & PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Max Scarpa
Esteemed listers I'd like to modify our Storage Groups structure to react quickly if the SG is in shortage of space. We want to create some SG with many volumes (say 100) defined but only few (say 20) having a real DASD allocated, the other should be only entries in SG. I did it in other shops wi

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Phil King
Ted, A general technique I have used successfully to estimate the CPU usage (or instruction path length) of a "black box" piece of code is as follows: (1) Measure the resource usage of the standard job - call this R1 (2) Modify the job (in the case your COBOL program) to call the "black box" s

Re: system level objects

2006-04-12 Thread Luis Correia
Hi Lizette, Your right.. i think it's due to my inexperience in Z/OS. The answers are 1. Z/OS 1.4 2. RACF 3. I must test a control that says: "Ensure that the creation / deletion of all system objects is logged." Until now I consider datasets and TCP connections, for both "systems objects" I've

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