Re: Another difference between platforms...

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
07/02/2008
   at 04:29 PM, "Thompson, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Is it CKD vs. FBA?

Yes.

>Or is this caused by it being cheaper to emulate CKD
>on RAID?

AFAIK, the last real CKD device that IBM announced was the 3350; the 3375,
3380 and everything since have been FBA under the covers, and that was
well before the advent of RAID.

>IF FBA were such a wonderful thing, why hasn't some company that makes
>disk units (or did) put out FBA for "MVS" with their own device
>handler/driver?

Because there's a lot more involved than just drivers and because it would
be a nightmare to do it without active cooperation from IBM.
 
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Re: IBM buys PSI

[Timothy Sipples]

Jim McAlpine writes:
>AFAIK you can't licence the ADCD software package on these
>machines. Please tell me if I'm wrong.

The primary machine requirement for licensing the ADCD software is that you
obtain the machine through IBM PartnerWorld, but I don't see any
requirement (other than technical) concerning machine type. So I'd
recommend contacting PartnerWorld to ask about what machines (if any) they
currently have on offer (used z890?) for purchase or lease, then compare
that to the hosting service.

One major advantage to the hosting service is that I think they use System
z10 EC technology, so you're going to have access to the latest processor
features. It's likely that continues over time.

The central point is correct, though, that there are lots of used 64-bit
machines now.

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Re: Display IEAOPT

[Norman Hollander]

Sounds like a good requirement for Share, Don.
You should have access to open it.


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Re: Memory Upgradation ??

[Gibney, Dave]

  Right. HSA is still a chunk on a z9-anything. Another 8GB is cheap and
you'll likely never page (which is a GOOD thing).

> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 4:23 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Memory Upgradation ??
> 
> >May be as simple as a "xxx Gigs/processor rule-of-thumb"- may be more
> complex; more CPUs means more work, means more memory pressure, means
more
> memory needed.
> >Who knows.
> 
> I may not know, but I have an opinion.
> I don't think you can drive the default config (8GB) that far with a
BC.
> -
> Too busy driving to stop for gas!
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Re: Edit macro to support jcl set commands in instream inputs

[Itschak Mugzach]

I wrote this program as a need to use the set variables over all of the job
parts. In your attitude, why to use SET vars in the job at all? Read the
thread from beginning and you'll see that it is a problem discussed here
several times with no solution. And... It is offered as take it or leave it.
You can leave it if you want. 

Regards, 
Itschak   


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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Kenneth E Tomiak
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Edit macro to support jcl set commands in instream inputs

You lost me. You were talking about CICS regions, then maint jobs, then IMS,
then CRC. And yet still provided no clear example of what good it would be. 
Perhaps you have a tool and are trying to force it to be used somewhere?


On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:37:23 +0200, Itschak Mugzach 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Kenneth,
>
>This rexx is for the maint. Jobs. If you run the same job for every region,
>for example if you have several IMS regions each of which has a different
>naming convention, CRC etc., but all the rest is the same, why to handle
>several copies?
>
>
>| Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software |
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>-Original Message-
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>Of Kenneth E Tomiak
>Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:45 AM
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>Subject: Re: Edit macro to support jcl set commands in instream inputs
>
>Can you give an example of why running rexx code on tens of CICS regions
>every time they start up day after day to change a variable in SYSIN which
>is stored in a permanent dataset is productive? After all, I know have to
go
>add SET statements to started task JCL for variables that are only in
SYSIN,
>maybe.
>
>On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:44:53 +0200, Itschak Mugzach
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Dave,
>>
>>This is not an application. The is standart JCL stored in your librabry.
>>Suppose that you have some tens of CICS environments. All have the same
>>charcturistics execpt some prefix. JCL SET command will take care of
>>the JCL variables, but what about the sysin data? This rexx exec take
>>care of the sysin data only and let MVS take care of the JCL side, but
>>both areusing the same set of values visa JCL SET commands.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>
>>| Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software |
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