IBM Announces FICON Express8

2009-07-23 Thread Timothy Sipples
The announcement letter is here for 8 Gbps: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS109-417 Shipments should start very soon (on July 31, 2009). FICON Express8 is available for System z10 EC and BC. IBM is withdrawing FICON Express4 adapters for z10 machines (only) effective October 27,

Re: Downloading large datasets to PC is that Mainframe any Performance issue ?????

2009-07-23 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Interesting, but I would think that FTP is all I/O over a very slow path. Unless you are doing some heavy duty software based encryption/decryption, FTP should not consume enough CPU for WLM to even notice. I agree. All the TCP related hints others gave are more probable to be of help.

Ted Kotlowski is out of the office.

2009-07-23 Thread Ted Kotlowski
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Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Shane
Good luck fella - there's a lot of (justified IMHO) bad blood out there you're going to have to overcome. It'd better be good. Shane ... .. . Scott Fagen Principal Architect Mainframe 2.0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: cbttape #737

2009-07-23 Thread Angel-Luis Dominguez
You can view XMI files in PC ONLY if the original library in HOST is a classic PO. If the base file to build de XMI file is a PDSE, you cannot inspect the file in PC, but yo can upload to a HOST y recreate it without problems. Angel Luis Domínguez

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Richards, Robert B.
If Scott's the architect, it definitely is worth our time to look at it. Just my $.02. Make that $.01 if cap and tax and/or universal healthcare pass. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Fagen Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: Telnet Unix System Services

2009-07-23 Thread Klein, Kenneth
And when you find that Mark, please post it. I have been looking for that for weeks. Ken Klein Sr. Systems Programmer Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance - Louisville kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com 502-495-5000 x7011 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: What's the difference in SMP/E between the SOURCEID's called RSUnnnn and PUTnnnn ???

2009-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Klein, Kenneth John, the problem is that the same name exists on the system I am running on. I think I might try iehmove. Shouldn't make any difference. We have duplicate RESVOL sets for each z/OS image we run,

Re: What's the difference in SMP/E between the SOURCEID's called RSUnnnn and PUTnnnn ???

2009-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Klein, Kenneth Allan, the problem is that the datasets are on the target res vol with the same name as the dataset on the currently running res vol and they are catalogged in the master cat. Eg. sys1.serblink,

Re: What's the difference in SMP/E between the SOURCEID's called RSUnnnn and PUTnnnn ???

2009-07-23 Thread Klein, Kenneth
Yes, you are both correct. The serious warning messages, some in red, just scared the heck outta me. Now I have iebcopied the full datasets to larger ones and done the renames manually with ispf being sure to only affect the inactive resvol that is the target for my maint. Now the target pack is

Re: Telnet Unix System Services

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Pace
in /etc/profile I added set -o vi and then I can do esc k to recall previous commands. Now if I can figure out how to change the keyboard in PuTTY to send an esck for the up arrow. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Klein, Kenneth kenneth.kl...@kyfb.comwrote: And when you find that Mark,

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Jeff Grigg
We started looking at using this but soon found out it does not support secure FTP so that came to a quick halt. CA has said this may come in the future. With PCI requirements SFTP is a must for us. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: What's the difference in SMP/E between the SOURCEID's called RSUnnnn and PUTnnnn ???

2009-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Klein, Kenneth Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What's the difference in SMP/E between the SOURCEID's called RSU and PUT ??? Yes, you

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA Mainframe 2.0 snip Mainframe 2.0 provides a generalized framework that any ISV or

Re: Need to delete olsolete entries from tape volcat

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to delete olsolete entries from tape volcat Thanks, John,  is it possible to delete a

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Bobbie Jo
I agree with Scott as the architect, it has the potential to be greatly improved over ca-aggravator. - Original Message - From: Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:45 AM Subject: Re: CA

Re: SHOWzOS 7.19

2009-07-23 Thread R.S.
I just installed it, thank you! Honestly, it's my first time with ShowzOS. g I just get tons of informations, some of them are clear for me, but there are sections which I understand. Is there any description of ShowzOS's output available? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I would hazard a guess that we would require SFTP as well. Scott, your mission should you choose to accept it. As always, this email will self-destruct in 5 seconds. Bob - Robert B. Richards(Bob) US Office of

Re: Need to delete olsolete entries from tape volcat

2009-07-23 Thread John Kelly
snip We now have a problem in that we want to remove all of the volcat entries from the shared volcat that belonged to the old hardware VTS that has been de-installed unsnip deleting the various entries is a way to go but the VCAT is a catalog. you could also AMS REPRO the old range to another

Re: Telnet Unix System Services

2009-07-23 Thread Don Poitras
While I finally bit the bullet and learned (somewhat) how to use vi, I think using it as the command editor is overkill. The emacs keys for recalling commands and moving forward and back on the line are much more amenable to key bindings. I do: set -o emacs and set up arrow to CTRL-p, down arrow

Re: What's the difference in SMP/E between the SOURCEID's called RSUnnnn and PUTnnnn ???

2009-07-23 Thread Klein, Kenneth
Yes, that's how I remember it. And to correct myself we do have the DDDef's hard coded with a specific volser. We clone the target.csi and zonedit to create a new sandbox for maint. Ken Klein Sr. Systems Programmer Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance - Louisville kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com 502-495-5000

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Hal Merritt
I could be wrong (and often am) but I think PCI only cares about cardholder data and some ancillary processes (like system security). A documented (and management approved) exception with compensating controls ought to be sufficient. Of course, much depends on the quality of the auditors.

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Robert B. wrote: As always, this email will self-destruct in 5 seconds. Your self-destruct mechanism isn't working! ;-D It is now 16:28 (GMT 14:28) and I had to destroy your mail. Feel free to destroy my email... ;-D --

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Patrick Loftus
We've been using MSM beta version, and we're very impressed at this early stage. As an example, it took me about 2 minutes work to get VTAPE installed (not configured). Elapsed time longer obviously, due to downloading and SMP/E batch work, but you can put your feet up whilst you wait, or

Re: IBM Announces FICON Express8

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I just read through a lot of the announcement letter from the link quoted below. This sounds very interesting. I don't know what the FICON Express8 channels cost, but I know if you just bought your machine, and you decide you need those channels, you it will probably cost a lot to convert. I

TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Ian
Techtarget is running a survey on Mainframe usage etc. The first 2 or 3 pages is boring stuff but it is worth it to get to the real mainframe questions. Link = http://go.techtarget.com/r/8764676/1317583 I'm posting it here to make sure they get the right audience for the survey. quote The

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Agreed -- we are allowed no unsecured file transfer to the mainframe due to PCI. Our preference is FTPS but we could (for certain kludges) work with SFTP. All vendors need to be reconsidering their supported protocols. Jerry Whitteridge Mainframe Engineering Safeway Inc 925 951 4184

Re: IBM Announces FICON Express8

2009-07-23 Thread R.S.
Eric Bielefeld pisze: I just read through a lot of the announcement letter from the link quoted below. This sounds very interesting. I don't know what the FICON Express8 channels cost, but I know if you just bought your machine, and you decide you need those channels, you it will probably

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread P S
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jerry Whitteridgejerry.whitteri...@safeway.com wrote: Agreed -- we are allowed no unsecured file transfer to the mainframe due to PCI. Our preference is FTPS but we could (for certain kludges) work with SFTP.  All vendors need to be reconsidering their

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
No -- the problem is the credentials are in clear if you use your method. The link has to be encrypted. Jerry Whitteridge Mainframe Engineering Safeway Inc 925 951 4184 jerry.whitteri...@safeway.com If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. -Original

Re: IBM Announces FICON Express8

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I doubt if the new channels will be significantly more expensive if you buy them with a new machine. If you just took delivery of your machine 2 months ago, and then realize these chanells could help because you have a huge DASD farm, you might be talking significant dollars, although if you

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Gibney, Dave
Just curious, why do you or your security folks care about the encryption at an external company where the data transfer is all incoming (to you). Seems that CA should be the one concerned about the security of their system (But they can't required secure transfer for everyone). I don't see

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA Mainframe 2.0 No -- the problem is the credentials are in clear if you use your

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: I am not familiar with CA's framework. But I do like ShopzSeries' delivery methodology. ShopzSeries is not available to entities outside IBM. It's primarily an order fulfillment tool. SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK can be used by anyone who understands it. -- Edward E

Re: IBM Announces FICON Express8

2009-07-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Eric, Yes, you would definitely bury Escon channels doing anything with current disk or tape. However, moving to 4 Gb Ficon (much less 8 Gb) you won't see any significant delays across the channels - unless you have a huge, well-balanced DASD farm (without balanced channels :-) ) Rex

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
We have learnt that there is not always logic involved in what the PCI QSA demands to certify we are compliant. Not all QSA's have a good grounding in Mainframe strengths and weaknesses - despite our best efforts in education. However I agree that a transfer initiated from the mainframe using

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA Mainframe 2.0 McKown, John wrote: I am not familiar with CA's framework. But I do like

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Bill Washburn
It appears to be a survey from CA since at the end it asks if you want CA to send you the survey results. I said 'yes', and supplied my email address. After which it promptly told me I wasn't the demographic they were looking for and thank you for playing... hmmm

ZHPF - Cost/Benefit Analysis

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
Now that we have z10's in the environment I started to look at the new 'stuff' I can turn on. One of them is ZHPF but that requires a chargeable feature to the DASD array. Our DASD manager doesn't see any problems with not having the feature installed and I don't know enough about the benefits of

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It appears to be a survey from CA since at the end it asks if you want CA to send you the survey results. I said 'yes', and supplied my email address. After which it promptly told me I wasn't the demographic they were looking for and thank you for playing... hmmm To quote Teal'c: Indeed! The

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Don Leahy
I said 'no' and got the same response. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Bill Washburnbwashb...@winwholesale.com wrote: It appears to be a survey from CA since at the end it asks if you want CA to send you the survey results. I said 'yes', and supplied my email address. After which it

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Bobbie Jo
It does the same response to pretty much everyone, no matter what your answers were. - Original Message - From: Bill Washburn bwashb...@winwholesale.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:49 PM Subject: Re: TechTarget Mainframe

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Pace
I answered two questions and go the Not in the demographic response. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Don Leahy don.le...@leacom.ca wrote: I said 'no' and got the same response. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Bill Washburnbwashb...@winwholesale.com wrote: It appears to be a survey from

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Jerry Fuchs
Guess they are not going to share the results with anyone. Bobbie Jo just...@peoplepc.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 07/23/2009 01:00 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: TechTarget

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:42:17 -0500, McKown, John wrote: SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK can be used by anyone who understands it. Well, what I like is the Download Director which downloads all the subdirectories files for a given order. Can't this be done with a handful of MGETs? Is Download

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I answered two questions and go the Not in the demographic response. Just what is the 'proper demographic'. Why don't they just say: I'm sorry, but your responses are not the ones we were expecting! I'm sorry, but I thought you were looking for staff in mainframe shops. - Too busy driving to

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:21:38 -0500, McKown, John wrote: No -- the problem is the credentials are in clear if you use your method. The link has to be encrypted. Jerry Whitteridge There would be 1 of 3 possible methods (as I see it). sftp - which is a type of file transfer over an SSH tunnel.

Re: ZHPF - Cost/Benefit Analysis

2009-07-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Jacobs wrote: Does anyone have any real world experiences with ZHPF that I can bring to the attention to management? We have done extensive in-house testing comparing standard non-zHPF DX/LR[E], non-zHPF PFX, and zHPF channel programs. The tests measure elapsed time, connect time,

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA Mainframe 2.0 On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:42:17 -0500, McKown, John wrote: SMP/E RECEIVE

Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: TechTarget Mainframe Survey I answered two questions and go the Not in the demographic

Re: ZHPF - Cost/Benefit Analysis

2009-07-23 Thread Staller, Allan
Has Pat Artis weighed in on this yet? snip We have done extensive in-house testing comparing standard non-zHPF DX/LR[E], non-zHPF PFX, and zHPF channel programs. The tests measure elapsed time, connect time, and throughput. We see *significant* differences between these three approaches, with

MAXASSIZE restriction

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Szott
We reset the MAXASSIZE to 900M. The OMVS options display shows that the parm has been reset, but one of our LPARs shows (through the help of rexx routine and getrlimit) that the Max AS is 825M. What parameter/resource would limit getting the new value? Trying to keep question simple without

Re: MAXASSIZE restriction

2009-07-23 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I remember that there is a AMAXSIZE parm set for the RACF userid (or something similar) that can override MAXASSIZE. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Szott Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:47 PM To:

LISTSERV archives

2009-07-23 Thread William Janulin
Where can I find the archives to this listserv? Thks, Bill J. ASPG, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: LISTSERV archives

2009-07-23 Thread Hal Merritt
Last line of every message. *Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html* -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of William Janulin Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: LISTSERV archives

2009-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of William Janulin Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: LISTSERV archives Where can I find the archives to this listserv? Thks, Bill J.

Re: LISTSERV archives

2009-07-23 Thread William Janulin
Thanks guys, that will teach me not to scroll down, eh? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: LISTSERV archives -Original

Re: Telnet Unix System Services

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Post
On 7/23/2009 at 7:03 AM, Klein, Kenneth kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com wrote: And when you find that Mark, please post it. I have been looking for that for weeks. Have you tried man sh ? Or, if you have access to a Linux system, man ksh ? I've never been interested in running ksh myself, but a

Re: Find the computer error

2009-07-23 Thread Kirk Talman
Visa does have cards beginning w/2. Don't know what they are yet. Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 07/15/2009 06:31 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject

Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread JE Thinnes
If you want IBM's initial response to zPrime, ask your IBM business partner. You can get a letter written by Mark Anzani (IBM VP and CTO, System z) dated July 10. Paragraph 4 and 5 lay out their position. Seems like IBM thinks you might owe them more money not less if you implement zPrime.

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread Ken Porowski
Found this on the web http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mainframe-blog/ibm-warns-custo mers-about-neons-zprime/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of JE Thinnes Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:00 PM To:

Re: Find the computer error

2009-07-23 Thread P S
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Kirk Talmanrkueb...@tsys.com wrote: Visa does have cards beginning w/2.  Don't know what they are yet. See http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

USSTAB

2009-07-23 Thread Ron Wells
Anyone have a copy/example of using sysparm in the USSTAB for VTAM logon screen,, to place system-id on screen. I know there is something once on the cbt tape but I do not have access to it.. -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail

Re: SHOWzOS 7.19

2009-07-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:13:50 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: You're welcome. It's self documented :-)) To be honest most part is based on all DISPLAY comands. What kind sounds a secret to you? BTW: SHOWzOS 7.19 will fail on z/OS R10 and z10. Fix will be ready soon Roland I

Re: USSTAB

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Kline
Anyone have a copy/example of using sysparm in the USSTAB for VTAM logon screen,, to place system-id on screen. I know there is something once on the cbt tape but I do not have access to it.. No sample, but code BUFFER=(addr,SCAN) on the USSMSG macro, and code within the buffer wherever you

Re: USSTAB

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Kline
That should specify two ampersands and the character string 'SYSPARM' without my quotes and without spaces. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-23 Thread Anthony Giorgio
Hal Merritt wrote: Old days? Still very much so today here in the US. It is called 'off road' diesel, and, except for the color and tax, it's exactly the same fuel. Or so I'm told. Don't know the price difference but I'd suspect it's substantial. As the penalties for using it for

Re: LISTSERV archives

2009-07-23 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/23/2009 2:01:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time, william.janu...@aspg.com writes: Where can I find the archives to this listserv? Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html **Dell Deals: Treat yourself to a sweet deal on popular

Re: USSTAB

2009-07-23 Thread Ron Wells
not a guro on asmblr... trying to figure out where this is to go and coding it from older copy I have.. From: Martin Kline martin.kl...@yrcw.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/23/2009 03:16 PM Subject: Re: USSTAB Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Anyone have a

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Giorgio Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME Hal Merritt wrote: Old days? Still very much so today here in the

Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME

2009-07-23 Thread Tony B.
Umm, uh, yes I know, uh uh, a friend told me. Yea that's it. A friend told me. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Giorgio Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Offload

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Did anyone else see the CA Mainframe 2.0 video? I just watched it. You can find it at: http://www.ca.com/lean-it-mainframe.aspx It's 8 minutes long. The first 4 minutes could have all been said by IBM. I've heard IBM presentations that sounded very similar. The last 4 minutes talked

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I just commented about the MCMG meeting that I attended last Friday. On the ziip and zaap session that Al Sherkow gave, he talked quite a bit about the zPrime product, as several people there had seen the discussion on IBM-Main. He didn't have any knowledge (or at least he said he didn't)

Re: USSTAB

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Mason
Ron This is not a matter for VTAM since an USSTAB is created from the assembler (and linkage editor - or whatever it's called these days). The VTAM support is described in Network Implementation Guide - Chapter 3 Implementing a VTAM network - Using MVS system symbols. It does *not* include

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Fagen
Dave, The best way to obtain CA MSM is to contact the AD/AM on your account. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:21:29 -0700, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: Hi Scott, One question, when can we have it. We might have tried today :) Point of strangeness, I actually sorta liked Aggravator :) nut I was

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
Eric Bielefeld wrote: I attended the Midwest Computer Measurement Group (MCMG) meeting in Milwaukee last Friday. Al Sherkow gave 2 good sessions on IBM's pricing by workload license charging, and about ziip and zaap processors. I believe he mentioned several times how complicated their

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:00 -0500, JE Thinnes wrote: If you want IBM's initial response to zPrime, ask your IBM business partner. You can get a letter written by Mark Anzani (IBM VP and CTO, System z) dated July 10. Paragraph 4 and 5 lay out their position. Seems like IBM thinks you

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread P S
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Shaneibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: This just has to get uglier. Seems every vendor (IBM included) has been been announcing (to great fanfare) new exploitation of specialty engines. Presumably with IBMs imprimatur. So the initial concept has become quite a bit

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread P S
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Edward Jaffeedja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: That might be their objective. If so, it's a failed strategy. IBM knows that many ISVs figured out long ago how to enable 3rd-party code to run on zAAP/zIIP. (A fun exercise.) If IBM bought NEON (or zPrime) to

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Fagen
The PCI Data Security Standard only addresses the protection of cardholder information. The standard is not intended for any other data (although, in my opinion, the specification would tend towards being a good idea for any *sensitive* information that you would want to protect.) See

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
P S wrote: My SWAG: This is NEON's way of getting IBM to buy them, to put them out of their misery, a la PSI. That might be their objective. If so, it's a failed strategy. IBM knows that many ISVs figured out long ago how to enable 3rd-party code to run on zAAP/zIIP. (A fun exercise.) If

Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10

2009-07-23 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10 On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:00 -0500, JE Thinnes wrote: If

Re: CA Mainframe 2.0

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I forgot to mention that in my last post, but yes, Al did bring up his working as a consultant for zPrime. He also mentioned that a good part of his consulting work is for IBM. He was very open about this, so I don't think he would mind my mentioning it. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems

is out of the office.

2009-07-23 Thread Keith Zawila
I will be out of the office starting 07/23/2009 and will not return until 07/29/2009. I will be out of the office beginning Friday, July 24th, and will return on Wednesday, July 29th. Thanks. The information contained in this communication is confidential, private, proprietary, or otherwise

Re: Volume ID Gone

2009-07-23 Thread John Argall
Hi Ron, The box does have Truecopy Async running on it to a site about 1000km away. Our hardware vendor is still investigating, but has said a 'slot lock' is being seen in shared memory/cache generated by some internal task within the disk subsystem. Unfortunately, we have to play a wait and

Antwort: Re: MAXASSIZE restriction

2009-07-23 Thread Michael Klaeschen
Hi, the field in the RACF OMVS segment is ASSIZEMAX. It has to be seen together with the BPXPRMxx symbol MAXASSIZE. Check the Unix System Services Planning Guide, chapter 3.6.3.3 for details. These max-values are among others which I call hard limits. In addition, Unix processes may obtain

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-07-23 Thread Bob Woodside
On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Vikesh Bhoola wrote: On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Bob Woodside wrote: Try this. Edit the file zip.c. [snip] Thanks for your assistance, done the above I get the following : [snip] Zip special compilation options: * size of int: 4 * size