Re: Attends Orlando IBM EXPRO OCT 7
Hi Daniel, This is my first time to visit IBM EXPO...thanks your advice...I will beware::) Tommy On 9/8/06, Daniel A. McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tommy, I would love to, but not company policy. I have been in the past and enjoyed it and learned a lot. There is a hall of vipers (vendors) who will lure you with pretty things...beware! Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford Company PH: 770 621 3256 * -- 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 -- 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
HFS Vs ZFs
Hi, What's different between HFS ZFs, I am migrating a z/OS from 1.4 to 1.7.anyone comment or have experience on using ZFs...is it a good time to change from HFS or ZFsor stay at HFS Tommy -- 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
P series Vs Z9-109 series
Hi, Is it possible to consolidate all P-series machine into a single Z9-109 machine .. ... how about i-series ...will it remove from IBM family in nearly future? anyone try upgrade from Z900 to Z9-109? any opinion will be appreciated tommy -- 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: P series Vs Z9-109 series
Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi, Is it possible to consolidate all P-series machine into a single Z9-109 machine .. ... how about i-series ...will it remove from IBM family in nearly future? anyone try upgrade from Z900 to Z9-109? any opinion will be appreciated tommy -- 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 Unless you are running Linux on your p/i Series then you really can not consolidate them onto a zSeries. You can replace the applications that running on the the p/iSeries with applications that do the same function on a zSeries. What do you mean by all pSeries machines? If you mean that you have 100 pSeries servers and you want to consolidate the workload running on them to a single z9, well it depends on which pSeries you have, what type of workload you are running and how busy the pSeries systems are. However I would say that unless you have a lot of small pSeries or they are sitting there very idle you would be hard pressed to put 100 pSeries on a single z9. If you mean can you put any workload that runs on a pSeries onto a z9, yes you can, but that does not mean that it will run as well. There come types of workloads that the Power processor does better than a z processor does. -- 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: Is no one reading the article?
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: part of the issue had been that HP had acquired Convex. Convex had done the scalable Examplar using 64-port sci memory coherent with two hp pa-risc chips/board (128 chips, processor in numa configuration). my understanding from the hp engineers was that superdome would be somewhat smaller and more efficient (to implement, 32 processors) box that they would move into the (convex) examplar customer segment ... as well as moving out into the more commercial world. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#8 Is no one reading the article? note that in the same time-frame (mid-90s), both dg sequent also did a 64-port SCI cache consistent implementation, but using four intel processors on a board (for a 256 processor configuration, instead of the two pa-risc processors on a board done by convex). the sci design with multiple processors on board are somewhat analogous to current multiple chip implementations with multiple cores in a chip. ibm inherited one of the implementations (NUMA-Q) when it bought sequent. minor ref: http://www.scizzl.com/ a couple other past posts in this n.g. that mention superdome http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#57 Another light on the map going out http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#28 Google Architecture for some other historical, at the time ibm bought sequent, steve chen was cto and evp of product development at sequent. Steve had previously worked at cray and then formed chen supercomputers ... which got a lot of funding from ibm. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/11/08/2003210211 http://www.ahaventures.net/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=17Itemid=32 one of the people that worked at cray and chen, joined ibm and transferred to austin. he was behind the four RSC (rios 0.9 or rios single chip) chip machine ... OAK, shared memory but w/o cache consistency. he then went to HP for superdome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_Single_Chip -- 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
PGP Assistance Needed
Hal: . Thanks much for the detailed explanation. snip From:Hal Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PGP Assistance Needed Suggested reading: z/OS Communications Server, IP Configuration Guide, Version 1 Release 4, Document Number SC31-8775-02. Of course, use the manual appropriate to your os level. ... etc snip -- 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: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:18:28 -0700, Frank Yaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Rutledge wrote on 09/08/2006 04:50:40 PM: Why not just sort it as three characters and have done with it? That won't work if the EQUALS function is needed. You lost me with that one, Frank. I don't see how anything is lost if you sort a 5 digit packed decimal as a 3 byte binary as opposed to a 2 and a half byte binary. 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
Re: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:52:16 -0500 Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:18:28 -0700, Frank Yaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Bob Rutledge wrote on 09/08/2006 04:50:40 PM: : Why not just sort it as three characters and have done with it? :That won't work if the EQUALS function is needed. :You lost me with that one, Frank. I don't see how anything is lost if you :sort a 5 digit packed decimal as a 3 byte binary as opposed to a 2 and a :half byte binary. Consider 1C 1D 1F Sorting as a 2.4 byte binary has three equal values. Sorting as a 3 byte binary has 3 unique values -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- 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
It's No Game: IBM Uses PlayStation Chip For New Supercomputer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060909/tc_cmp/192700567 By harnessing a processor originally built for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3, IBM is building a new supercomputer that is expected to break the petaflop barrier by topping speedz of 1,000 trillion calculations per second. -- 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
On 9/13/56
On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM announces the world's first hard drive, the RAMAC, and explains in this silent film on its CNET Fri, 08 Sep 2006 1:19 PM PDT Video: On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM announces the world's first hard drive, the RAMAC, and explains in this silent film on its invention to the world. In 1952, IBM opened a research lab in San Jose under Rey Johnson, and one of its first assignments was to come up with a magnetic storage system that could hold 5MB of data, then a whopping amount. Johnson's group used platters coated with magnetic http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6113819.html?part=rsstag=6113819subj=news -- 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
Macro IRARQSRV
Nice one as it shows why IBM prefer PLX or is it just because 1. no one ask for it. 2. no one use the assembler version 3. lazy IBM. The given size in macro (SYS1.MODGEN) *01* Size: 248 bytes is also wrong Well the SVC 95 for this provide very nice info 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: Debugging SMS
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/08/2006 at 09:11 AM, Darth Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are you suggesting having test cases for your non-SMS datasets? Not specifically; I'm suggesting retaining test cases for every important component of your system and applications. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/08/2006 at 07:50 PM, Bob Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why not just sort it as three characters and have done with it? C D. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/08/2006 at 06:11 PM, Bernd Oppolzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: BTW, on older machines (not IBM) there were concepts like storage tags, which allowed to detect the use of uninitialized variables even for binary values. I don't understand why these concepts never reached the market. They did: Burroughs, now part of Unisys. RCA. Probably others as well. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- 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
Call for Linux and Linux/390 Speakers at SHARE
Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBMMAIN One of the hats I wear is the session scheduler for the Linux Project at SHARE. We are always on the lookout for user experience sessions. That is, when someone who isn't a vendor talks about their personal and company's experiences, good _or_ bad, with Linux or mainframe Linux. (The caveat about not being a vendor doesn't apply if you what you're talking about is your experiences, not your product.) Based on the mailing list traffic, it's easy to see that we have a fair amount of people here that could give just such a presentation. (Several already have in the past, and we thank them for volunteering.) So, I would like to issue a more direct plea to the members of the list. If you have worked with Linux or Linux/390 in your company, whether VM was involved or not, please consider creating a user experience presentation for SHARE. If you are interested in doing so, please contact me off list. Thanks, Mark Post Deputy Project Manager Linux Project, SHARE -- 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
