Re: OS/400 and z/OS

[Alan Altmark]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:45:10 -0500, Eric Bielefeld 
wrote:

>Is the OS/400 still marketed and supported by IBM?

You guys gotta get out more.  OS/400 -> i5/OS -> IBM i

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/index.html

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM

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Re: OS/400 and z/OS

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <47c6005912674613badde75964c96...@ericnbpc>, on 04/09/2010
   at 06:45 PM, Eric Bielefeld  said:

>Is the OS/400 still marketed and supported by IBM?  

Not under that name. Is OS/390 still marketed and supported.

AFAIK the current name is something like i/OS.
 
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Re: How many mainframes are there?

[Chris Hoelscher]

interesting question, Groucho,  er, Lindy

Chris Hoelscher
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Humana Inc
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Just curious how many mainframes are in the world.  And also how many 
mainframe people  (sysprogs, developers, etc).

I just wanted to know how exclusive a club am I in.  Then of course I have 
to decide if I want to belong to a club that would have me a member. 
Hoping it doesn't get to that.

)Lindy



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Re: How many mainframes are there?

[zMan]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield  wrote:

> Just curious how many mainframes are in the world.  And also how many
> mainframe people  (sysprogs, developers, etc).
>

Of course, IBM holds this closely. Best guess is on the order of 10,000 --
that is, it's more than 1,000 and fewer than 100,000. I suspect it's 10K+/-
a few K, myself, but have nothing to prove that with, so take it with the
largest grain of salt you can find.


> I just wanted to know how exclusive a club am I in.  Then of course I have
> to decide if I want to belong to a club that would have me a member.  Hoping
> it doesn't get to that.
>

You could do worse... (SRJs, anyone?)

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How many mainframes are there?

[Lindy Mayfield]

Just curious how many mainframes are in the world.  And also how many mainframe 
people  (sysprogs, developers, etc).

I just wanted to know how exclusive a club am I in.  Then of course I have to 
decide if I want to belong to a club that would have me a member.  Hoping it 
doesn't get to that.

)Lindy

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Re: setsockopt problem

[Phil Sidler]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 06:40:58 -0700, osman cinar eren 
wrote:

>thanks for the prompt reply.
>After i read this document, i switched to COBOL as these two timeout values
were written as supported for COBOL API.
>But with these options used for setsockopt in COBOL, i still receive "not
supported" error.

I think this RCVTIMEO support was added in z/OS 1.10.  In the meantime, you
could use select().

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/topic/com.ibm.zos.r11.halg001/r10sapi.htm

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Re: OS/400 and z/OS

[Ed Rabara]

Search the archive at http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?IBMTCP-L. They 
had a lengthy discussion on the topic. Look for contributions by Chris Mason. 
HTH.

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Re: (slightly OT) CA is laying off 1,000 workers and expects to take a $50m h...

[Scott T. Harder]

Amen to that.  True words.  It ain't real nice weather "out here" right now.
I'm not from CA, but brave the same elements.

Scott T. Harder
Mainframe Services, Inc.
Naples, FL

> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
> Behalf Of Chris Craddock
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:52 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: (slightly OT) CA is laying off 1,000 workers and expects to
> take a $50m h...
> 
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Ed Finnell  wrote:
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 4/9/2010 9:14:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> > maryanne4...@gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Um, it wasn't Ed Gould, it was zman.
> >
> 
> 
> True and regardless of who posted the original story it is at best
> insensitive to take any pleasure in seeing 1000 people lose their jobs.
> FWIW
> the overwhelming majority of people I worked with at CA are great and
> today's CA is not the big bad CA of old. But no matter what you might
> think
> of the company they work for, those are real people with families and
> responsibilities. Now they are going to be facing a really tough time. A
> little empathy would be a much more civilized response.
> 
> 
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Re: Console's behavior when no paths available

[Scott T. Harder]

I thought console buffer shortages were not supposed to happen anymore...
period??


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> Behalf Of Barbara Nitz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:38 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Console's behaviour when no paths available
> 
> Last night (well, way into this morning) we had a severe WTO buffer
> shortage
> that nobody saw. Here's why:
> 
> *IOS071I 0500,**,CONSOLE, START PENDING 378
> *IOS002A 0500,NO PATHS AVAILABLE
>  IOS2002I 0500 NO PATHS AVAILABLE 381
>  STATUS FOR PATH(S) ED
>SUBCHANNEL PATH AVAILABLE, BUT DEVICE NOT OPERATIONAL (C0)
>NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE OR UNKNOWN CONDITION (FF)
> 
> 3.5 hours later:
> 
> *IEA405E WTO BUFFER SHORTAGE - 80% FULL
> IEE889I 01.04.41 CONSOLE DISPLAY 111
> MSG: CURR=2401 LIM=3000 RPLY:CURR=18   LIM=99   SYS=  PFK=00
>  xx 46  COND=A  AUTH=MASTER   NBUF=2390
>   0500  AREA=Z,AMFORM=T,S,J
>     DEL=RD   RTME=1/4RNUM=15   SEG=14CON=N
> K S,DEL=R,L=xx
> IEE151I DELETE REQUEST INCONSISTENT-NO DISPLAY ON SCREEN
> COMMAND ISSUED IS K E,D,L=xx
> 
> Severe WTO buffer shortage a short while later. No other IOS messages or
> CNZ messages (no cnz messages before the buffer shortage) until the
> console
> was varied online again *hours* later (while still in severe wto
> shortage):
> V 500,ONLINE
> IEE302I 0500 ONLINE
> LOGOFF - ISSUED BY IEECVFTG
> IEA406I WTO BUFFER SHORTAGE RELIEVED
> 
> At the time of the IOS002A another system in another sysplex but on the
> same box got this:
> *IOS050I CHANNEL DETECTED ERROR ON 0500,**,**,**04
>  CNZ4200I CONSOLE zz HAS FAILED. REASON=IOERR
> 
> Now my question (mainly to IBM - will probably be faster than going
> through a
> tedious ETR): Why the heck isn't the console address space notified that
> no
> paths are available? Why is the console address space still issuing
> messages to
> that console? Why isn't console notified that the console 500 is not
> availabe
> anymore?
> 
> Nobody was able to even *see* the shortage messages since nothing got
> displayed on that console anymore
> 
> And if this is broken as designed, will I have to code an mpf exit that
> makes
> sure all buffer shortage messages will be sent to all consoles in the
> sysplex?
> Operators will be extremely happy about that (since many don't even know
> where to see which system issued the message- reading a formatted syslog
> message appears to be a dying/lost art).
> 
> Regards, Barbara Nitz
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Re: google groups

[Darren Evans-Young]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Ed Gould wrote:

>
>I have had a problem with the person responsible for the list for about 9
>months (approximately). i think by their non answer they are stumped. Or
>else they tossed the issue in the bit bucket (take your pick).

Aw, come on Ed. You've had a problem with me for more than 9 months!

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Ed Ghould a copy of his own post.

I can't get that proof to you because I cannot access the mail logs like
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Re: "What is ziip and zaap" Training/doc

[Jodi Everdon]

Issue 17 of z/OS Hot Topics features zIIP and zAAP:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/hot_topics.html

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Re: Font names for AFP fonts

[Ed Finnell]

 
In a message dated 4/10/2010 2:51:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
nmo...@edfund.org writes:

DCFINDEX program is supplied with DCF and not PSF. You might be  successful 
in searching for them in DCF documentation. I am not sure whether  IBM 
still licenses DCF considering most desktop publishing 
 
>>
It was one of those funky deals where DCF comes  installed but disabled in 
PRODnn. If you have Book Manager it enables itself to print .BOO.  DCFINDEX 
was an  ancillary byproduct. We converted to ePrint long ago  so don't have  
either.. 


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Re: OT IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator

[Jim Elliott, IBM]

For another point of view...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100408153953613

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Re: Font names for AFP fonts

[Natarajan Mohan]

Ed,

DCFINDEX program is supplied with DCF and not PSF. You might be successful in 
searching for them in DCF documentation. I am not sure whether IBM still 
licenses DCF considering most desktop publishing has moved to PC/MAC over the 
years. Also AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF)  used to be licensed no 
cost option, but its priced option now.

Natarajan


From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed 
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Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 8:43 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Font names for AFP fonts

In a message dated 4/9/2010 7:47:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
nmo...@edfund.org writes:

These are documented on AFP font or compatibility fonts etc. From  the
listing all of them are coded fonts, you would have to add X0 in front of  them
and you would find them in FONT300 libraries or FONT240

>>
Haven't had to do this in a while. Used to be a   program that would read
your
FONT library and make a DCFINDEX member with types and  code pages. Does
it still exist? I searched the PSF 4.2 Shelf and  came up empty.

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