Re: Getting a VSAM data set's system timestamp
There are tools to do this. Data Propagator and STRIVA come to mind. Overhead is pretty steep. In a message dated 11/22/13 08:32:31 Central Standard Time, abend...@gmail.com writes: However I imagine it would be a bit of a hard sell to the customers. :) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Who to contact about IBM-main?
Hard to say. Only a few things get you un-sub'ed. Darren retired a few months back, but is still the list owner from his new job. Did loose many privileges for snooping around. --- From INFO For other problems, contact the list owner at: ibm-main-requ...@listserv.ua.edu --- End INFO In a message dated 11/17/13 08:28:44 Central Standard Time, jwgli...@gmail.com writes: suspect that Ed is complaining about having been unsubscribed by someone else, maliciously or as a prank. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SET IBM-Main NOMAIL
'Only thing constant is change...' Anyway, several updates, migrations and DNS makeovers under the PFCSK bridge. The only reason I knew it changed was I send a message to listserv when things bog down and try to find Darren. In a message dated 11/15/13 08:08:53 Central Standard Time, retired-mainfra...@q.com writes: But it did contain the sign-off instructions -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
BBC News - Meet the robot that teaches coding
BBC News - Meet the robot that teaches coding Pretty spiffy. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SET IBM-Main NOMAIL
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ^ In a message dated 11/14/13 12:00:48 Central Standard Time, trs...@att.net writes: SET IBM-Main NOMAIL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Fwd: Mentoring GenY Mainframers: Join SHARE for a Webcast Panel Discussion
For non-SHARE-ers might find educational. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAINHow can a strong mentoring strategy best help you work with a new generation entering the mainframe space? Is your organization up-to-speed on the importance of meeting GenY in the enterprise IT environment? A panel of seasoned enterprise IT professionals with different backgrounds will share their real-world experiences and discuss best practices for how to take advantage of multiple generations in the workplace. Register today for this complimentary SHARE webcast: Lessons Learned in the Meeting of Generations on the Mainframe Date and Time: Wednesday, November 20, 12:00 p.m. CT Hear best practices from: Reg Harbeck, Mainframe Analytics Ltd. Cameron Seay, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Norman Hollander, IBM Corporation Vance Morris, IBM Corporation Stefania Kaczmarczyk, IBM Corporation Warren T. Harper, BMC Software - This email was generated by SHARE To be removed from this list follow this link: http://www.share.org/o/ad/id=170394key=1c31ba29b6ebbbed7b36afbe3f325653optout=2 To manage all of your list email preferences, visit your SHARE profile: http://www.share.org/p/us/sn -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SET IBM-Main NOMAIL
Dated(very) Hearsay. To SUBSCRIBE to IBM-MAIN, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the following in the body: SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN firstname lastname - - - - - To SIGNOFF from IBM-MAIN, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the following in the body: SIGNOFF IBM-MAIN - - - - - To access the archives, go to https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html - - - - - If you are reading IBM-MAIN from the bit.listserv.ibm-main newsgroup, you MUST be subscribed to IBM-MAIN in order to post to the list. After confirmingyoursubscription,you cansendemailto lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the following in the body of the message: SET IBM-MAIN NOMAIL This will prevent LISTSERV from sending you email directly from the IBM-MAIN discussion list while still allowing you to post from your subscribed email address. Remember to send this command to lists...@listserv.ua.edu, not to the list. - - - - - For other problems, contact the list owner at: ibm-main-requ...@listserv.ua.edu --- In a message dated 11/14/13 16:56:48 Central Standard Time, mike.a.sch...@gmail.com writes: Last I heard that was the email address was there but no INFO document to return. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Security (Top Secret) parm file?
Ebb and flow of security and urinal defense. Some shops have a maint IDs(like VM) that will allow them access to resources to do their jobs. What you don't want to happen is the old paint into corner operations where one group needs to restore a catalog and the granting resource group is out at the ball park celebrating 100% availability(really happened). In a message dated 11/13/13 16:30:30 Central Standard Time, craig.p...@fotlinc.com writes: With that being said, changes are made with a working relationship with security...depending on security's knowledge of what needed to be change.. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
Guess in the late 60's was working as a co-op student for Bell South doing central office 'noise surveys'. Anyway all the alarms in the place started going off and people from ATT long lines started calling. What's going on? Turns out Western Electric was doing a power upgrade to Autodin for expansion to Autodin II and dropped a copper bus bar across working power supply. No one was killed but one worker was burned as a plasma ball went down the aisle and burned the back of his britches off, turned around to see what happened and it bounced off the wall and burnt the front side off! In a message dated 11/06/13 11:54:10 Central Standard Time, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net writes: Are you thinking of, e.g., MILNET? ARPANET was basically civilian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
BBC News - IBM PC pioneer William C Lowe dies, aged 72
BBC News - IBM PC pioneer William C Lowe dies, aged 72 Guess the roll-out was at an Interim SHARE in May of '81 in Phoenix Hilton. If you had a question, usually one of the developers was close at hand. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems
Acoustic coupler and no module greater then 64k? Yee-hah In a message dated 10/30/13 11:55:39 Central Daylight Time, jcew...@acm.org writes: with designing a high-volume web site should be required to test using a 56 Kbs network interface so they would be forced to give greater consideration to web-page display efficiency early in the game! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: z/OS IPL Issue
It used to be that if the Master was unavailable, the first interrupt from a defined consol became the Master.(Meatball hoagie in tape shop taught us this). In a message dated 10/23/13 14:36:28 Central Daylight Time, d10j...@us.ibm.com writes: If no valid NIP console has been found, we will use the system console (a.k.a. Opeating System Messages on the HMC) to IPL the system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Clemson Univ. Data Center Tour (1980)
They were rugged. We had an MFCM that bailed about 90 cards in the middle of card oriented registration(circa 1968). The CE(did his own car mods and maint) rolled it out in the hall and fired up a propane torch to clear the jam. Did alignment checks and rolled it back in to complete registration. (CE went home to put a Holley double pumper on his S-10)! In a message dated 10/22/13 13:44:54 Central Daylight Time, ca...@clemson.edu writes: All part of the IBM unit-record experience! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Clemson Univ. Data Center Tour (1980)
Yeah, glad you caught it. It was the pick-up truck. The S-10 was much later.
Guess after couple hundred thousand mile, put in a V-8 short block and the
Holley double pumper.
I went away after graduate school('74) and came back('86) with most of IBMer's
still in place. Sometimes the datelines get fuzzy on when who did what.
In a message dated 10/22/13 15:16:05 Central Daylight Time, kph...@live.com
writes:
The S-10 didn't come out until 1982.
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Best Desktop 3D Printers | Digital Trends
Best Desktop 3D Printers | Digital Trends I've been looking at these for the Holidays...don't know if there's an Adobe or Corel interface. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Potential Home Metal 3D Printer: The Vader - 3D Printing Industry
Potential Home Metal 3D Printer: The Vader - 3D Printing Industry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: shark fin
Your google broken? It was a plastic prop distributed with the DASD boxes. Like the penguins with the ICEbergs. EMC claims a large collection of them after swap outs for their boxes. In a message dated 10/13/13 15:15:57 Central Daylight Time, cblaic...@syncsort.com writes: What is a Shark Fin? I know what a Shark device is, but what is a Shark Fin -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: shark fin
Think I went the other way with 'IBM shark fin' and got loaded up. In a message dated 10/13/13 21:22:01 Central Daylight Time, cblaic...@syncsort.com writes: Thanks for the answer. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Distance considerations fo a Parallel Sysplex with DB2 Data Sharing
There was a great SHARE presentation in early nineties of one site that built a data center a few miles across the valley with their own fiber only to have the highway department come along and blew off a section for road widening. They had to pull across old train trestles and abandoned mines to get back in service. Great pictures of guys repelling on the trestles. After all they were an 'optics' company. In a message dated 10/09/13 16:56:05 Central Daylight Time, jo.skip.robin...@sce.com writes: There are too many environmental vagaries out there when you depend utterly on miles of fiber that you cannot control. Meanwhile the consequences of disrupted sysplex communication are too grave, including wait stating the entire sysplex. Too great a price to pay for whatever advantage you're reaching for. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: New Designed Service Portal Coming to IBM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57606448-93/amazon-wins-key-ruling-over-ibm-in-cia-cloud-contract-battle/ They may be drones In a message dated 10/08/13 02:31:51 Central Daylight Time, thomas.b...@swedbank.se writes: I think I saw flying pigs outside my window -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Catalog Rebuild JCL
Think CBT File 542 RCNVTCAT will do most of the heavy lifting here. The doc(attached) says tested thru V1.13 In a message dated 10/08/13 12:44:01 Central Daylight Time, ee...@us.ibm.com writes: Also, new support enables you to preserve user catalog connector alias entries when you temporarily delete a user catalog so they need not be redefined when the catalog is reallocated, and prevent new catalog entries using those aliases from being defined until the new catalog is available. This is intended to simplify the reallocation of user catalogs -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN//***FILE 542 is from Alastair Gray and contains some handy tools * FILE 542 //* (so far), which are described below. One is a REXX * FILE 542 //* which is an MCNVTCAT replacement, and the other is* FILE 542 //* a tool to find all the catalog alias names in the * FILE 542 //* system. There's some more too... * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* The overview for this PDS * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* Here are a number of bits of handy REXX code, the list * FILE 542 //* may well grow as I tidy up some of my REXX library.* FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* There are some of samples of using the DFSMS/MVS * FILE 542 //* Catalog Search Interface (CSI). More detail can be * FILE 542 //* found in : * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* DFSMS/MVS - Managing Catalogs - Document Number* FILE 542 //* SC26-4914 Appendix D Catalog Search Interface User's * FILE 542 //* Guide * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* The original code was derived from the IBM provided* FILE 542 //* sample in 'SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX)' but has been heavily* FILE 542 //* modified (including correcting the bugs in that code). * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* Hopefully it is now correct and should work as * FILE 542 //* intended. However as usual, no guarantee is implied. * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* All code is designed for either foreground or background * FILE 542 //* execution. * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* The pieces are as follows :* FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* #DELDUP - Edit macro to delete duplicate lines* FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* #DELNDUP - Edit macro to delete non-duplicate lines* FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* ALICOUNT - This simply finds all of the aliases in the * FILE 542 //* system and gives a count of datasets that * FILE 542 //* are using them. Handy for finding all those* FILE 542 //* redundant aliases cluttering up your* FILE 542 //* mastercat. * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* ALIMAKE - So you have just disconnected a usercat and * FILE 542 //* lost all the alises ... Reconnect the catalog * FILE 542 //* and then run this to get a DEF ALIAS for all* FILE 542 //* the 'suitable' HLQs in the catalog. * FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* BODGECAT - A sample workaround for a LISTDS on an * FILE 542 //* uncataloged dsn.* FILE 542 //* * FILE 542 //* CSICODE - Base CSI code, setup to be modified for other * FILE 542 //* functions. As provided, it simply lists ALL * FILE 542 //* entries.* FILE 542 //*
Re: Embedded two-byte representations of marked alphabetic characters in SBCSs
Maybe Darren can add more, I just know that incoming mail is subject to 'text' scans looking for glyphs or graphics. Transliterations may occur. In a message dated 10/06/13 22:42:39 Central Daylight Time, yak36...@yahoo.com writes: interchanged, the web interface, consistent in its perversity, now shows the first instance of the string with the U+FFFD, and the second instance with the accented e. I have fixed up both instances before sending, so with luck it will show the text string interchanged, and it will be an accurate quote of your reply, with my mistake. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: LISTSERV (was: Embedded two-byte ...)
Likewise. He lives a few miles across town and I usually run into him/family at supermarket or hardware store but haven't crossed paths since early summer. Last we spoke he was enjoying his work and still teaching the Freshman Computer based honors class. L-soft maint. is similar to MVS(to me anyway) in that they take bug reports and try to incorporate in next revision or release as appropriate. There's lots of knobs and switches on this big Internet machine. There are also budgetary constraints on upgrades and support efforts. Not making excuses, just the facts. Was once denied MVS upgrade (4.3 - 5.2) for the $48/month license charge. Maybe we should raise the subscription feevbg In a message dated 10/07/13 10:37:08 Central Daylight Time, charl...@mcn.org writes: about a recent issue here and received a prompt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: OT - Internet App Outages
10/3 was a muddled day for Internet services. My AOL stuff was in and out most of the day(CDT) and finally calmed down in the evening and I could look at new baby pictures Plus there's gazillion new smart phones! Seems quieter today, but haven't tried anything but eMail and more Retirement Parties(avoiding the potato salad). In a message dated 10/04/13 01:03:35 Central Daylight Time, stars...@mindspring.com writes: I am curious if anyone else experienced any types of internet difficulties today after noon PDT? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Is the zVM list defunct?
I don't know what happened. Harry Williams at Marist used to be a regular on this list and spun off MVS-OE and couple others to alleviate the pain. Maybe there will be a book someday. In a message dated 10/04/13 08:35:53 Central Daylight Time, nha...@ca.ibm.com writes: There still is a very active IBM VM list (The IBM z/VM Operating System ib...@listserv.uark.edu) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DSLIST in BATCH
Run ISPF in batch? In a message dated 10/01/13 11:29:31 Central Daylight Time, wro...@co.pg.md.us writes: ISPF DSLIST as a batch TSO job? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Quote on Slashdot.org
What's the difference in Stanford and UCSD versions? In a message dated 10/01/13 15:05:31 Central Daylight Time, bernd.oppol...@t-online.de writes: Today I am trying to add some - more - extensions to the old Stanford Pascal compiler of 1982 (running on VM/370 R6 on Hercules) with the final target to -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Quote on Slashdot.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal In a message dated 10/01/13 17:42:33 Central Daylight Time, bernd.oppol...@t-online.de writes: I don't know much about UCSD, but AFAIK this is a small PASCAL implementation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Ixglogr 0C4
If you can get to LOGREC to run it thru another system, might get module and offset. The support folks are pretty familiar with their components. In a message dated 9/27/2013 4:56:18 PM Central Daylight Time, john.norga...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu writes: I had no dump file available so there's no diagnostic info. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Pissing contest(s)
Caught it after about the second post. Hasn't changed his meds though. Just an FYI this is a TECHNICAL List! While we all have political, religious, economic values and beliefs there are other list that can accommodate those discussions. While I'm guilty of drifting due to aging at least keep it on the mainframe scenario. Or we can talk about program drum cards on the 029vbg...I actually kept a card saw for demo purposes and found out it worked great on dot matrix printers. It might still be in a box somewhere... In a message dated 09/25/13 14:09:13 Central Daylight Time, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com writes: He changed his identity because so many people blocked his previous email address(es). :D -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure
Don't know. Still works for me and tiny! http://tinyurl.com/qgyzcwf In a message dated 09/21/13 21:40:04 Central Daylight Time, eamacn...@yahoo.ca writes: The link doesn't go there anymore. I get top headlines only. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: List out all Indirect catalogued datasets
Used to be MCNVTCAT then IBM dropped support. Alistair rewrote in Rexx and put on CBT as RCNVTCAT. It puts different groups into PDS. Don't remember about indirect or not. In a message dated 09/21/13 19:26:54 Central Daylight Time, retired-mainfra...@q.com writes: It seems to me you would want to do this for all the program product datasets, whether indirectly catalogued or not. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/china-surprises-computing-world-milky-way-2-supercomputer-163928852.html In a message dated 09/21/13 13:07:22 Central Daylight Time, p...@voltage.com writes: Nothing is uncrackable if you posit unlimited computing power and time, after all. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Unused variables
Yeah, might have to go back and read some of those old backups for legal or otherwise unplanned situations. Probably be on the bottom of a 'to do' list as we covert to JAVA. In a message dated 09/21/13 18:18:57 Central Daylight Time, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca writes: This may also apply to LOCAL-STORAGE. While fields within a record may be unused, eliminating them changes the structure and can cause problems. In one sense are we straining at gnats in an era when people send megabyte size pictures to each other over the Internet and product files may contain 1 or more pictures of each product? I agree -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations
Can you view the SHARE proceedings? https://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session13662.html In a message dated 09/18/13 01:23:46 Central Daylight Time, nitz-...@gmx.net writes: 'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are still not there. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations
AMEN. Thank goodness for search engines! I just went in and did SHARE COBOL v5.1 and got to the confex site. It seems to be more 'googlized' than SHARE.ORG-hint,hint... In a message dated 09/18/13 09:33:05 Central Daylight Time, maryanne4...@gmail.com writes: The searching on the SHARE website is a bit squirrelly. Searching for 2.1 doesn't give the expected results. V2.1 works, and V2R1 works, but only if that string is in the title or description, of course. I guess it has to do with a search term starting with a number. 6.3 for z/vm and 5.1 for cics have the same problem. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5
http://allthingsd.com/20130916/google-acquires-bump-for-at-least-30m/ What's your RACF profile for this? In a message dated 09/17/13 14:03:08 Central Daylight Time, pinnc...@rochester.rr.com writes: That's what makes COBOL different, the conversion effort. Java had no code base to convert, so we could start new. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IEE313I when varying a console online
CF CHP(xx),offline then CF CHP(xx),online should clear all the status bytes and if operational the Consoles should come online. In a message dated 09/15/13 05:26:51 Central Daylight Time, gad...@malam.com writes: Could this be causing my problems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: 1403 Printer components manual GA24-3073-3
I searched a little for 1403 line printer art but didn't find anything but the music. There was Alfred E. Newman, Lone Ranger, Apollo, Snoopy Marilyn Monroe and some composite of Raquel Welch on a stool with long flowing tresses to make it PG-13. In a message dated 09/13/13 05:49:09 Central Daylight Time, d...@higgins.net writes: And then once I wrote a FORTRAN program punched on 5081 cards that Printed a birthday cake with candles and the name of a girl. My first graphics program mixed in with all those thermo calculations. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ACS routine trace.
Can you turn on verbose logging for the specific APP during the event in question? Maybe something irregular would solve the mystery. I would guess something like a temp creation and a rename. In a message dated 09/12/13 14:46:28 Central Daylight Time, kees.verno...@klm.com writes: I can only debug this problem in a live envirionment, hence the 'tracing' needed for the live ACS routines. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
1403 Printer components manual GA24-3073-3
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/140x/GA24-3073-8_1403_printer.pdf Found this on bitsavers. I remember the lid would come open when the paper ran out, normally right after the shift supervisor put their beverage cup on it. The ribbon stopped along with the paper when overprinting. If done with gusto, overprinting would saw the ribbon in two. The paper tapes for forms control were like gold with special forms. In a pinch could be duplicated with a hole punch and cellophane tape. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Teletypewriter Model 33
There was a 'Universal Train'. I don't remember the number. It only had two of most one of some and was pretty slow. One Dept. used it for Don Quixote concordance trying to prove or disprove Cervantes was author. Don't know what outcome was. They ran that darn thing most weekends just for spite. In a message dated 09/09/13 23:41:48 Central Daylight Time, gerh...@valley.net writes: named FORMAT, that provided an escape character (cent sign by default), to produce mixed case output. It came in very handy for writing memos and documentation. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Teletypewriter Model 33
I was just a flunky work study student back then, U11 sounds familiar but it may not have had all the diacriticals. Somebody complained the print on the four part wasn't sharp enough so weekend took a typewriter brush and toluene solvent to make it shiny bright. After about 20 seconds, seized up tight. CE was in good humor and didn't flog anyone, but the overtime charges were pretty steep. In a message dated 09/10/13 09:43:41 Central Daylight Time, gerh...@valley.net writes: used for card catalogs, etc. It was referred to as the ALA train, but I coded the UCS member as UN (and later U11). Yours may or may not have been the same scheme? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Job Posting Rules
Darren will chime in when he gets thru with his day job, but in general just a link to the job opening should be sufficient. In a message dated 09/06/13 15:34:52 Central Daylight Time, jeffrey.dea...@securian.com writes: What are the rules for posting links to system engineer jobs on the list these days -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Needed Killing series
Great. They're cheaper than a mocha latte. I'm about half way thru #3. Probably won't win a Pulitzer, but readable. In the prologue Bill mentions the 27 April tornado that tore thru here and he wasn't kidding. Moved their house about 3 feet off the foundation and dropped a big ol' oak tree on the back half. In a message dated 09/04/13 21:52:22 Central Daylight Time, jcew...@acm.org writes: have from time to time in our lives encountered obnoxious as.ho...s in positions of power. These novels give vicarious satisfaction in that -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Who is Lagging Whom? (Was: SYSIN in PROC -- technique)
Eddie Stanky once got ejected for taking three smokin fast ball strikes from Bob Feller wheeled around and said 'Mr. Ump that last one sounded high!' I though that went away when they move CI back to MVS? In a message dated 09/04/13 02:24:00 Central Daylight Time, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com writes: forth. I have tried ALL of these new capabilities and am very pleased to see that our JES2 users no longer must wait for a job to get into an initiator just to detect a simple JCL spelling error such as DISP=(NEW,CATLF). Took 'em long enough... ;) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)
IIRC still need referback incrementing label as you go for multivolume files. //DD1 LABEL=(1,SL) //DD2 LABEL=(2,SL),VOL=REF=DD1 //DD3 LABEL=(3,SL),VOL=REF=DD2 In a message dated 09/02/13 15:31:09 Central Daylight Time, hal9...@panix.com writes: DISP=PASS handle this so the volume is not unloaded and thus allow a 2nd allocation (ie: To another file on the tape)? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)
We had one in early XA ESP where techy changed a few jobs and had UNIT=3800 for SORTWKs and it tried to honor it. Can you say wreck? In a message dated 08/30/13 13:23:33 Central Daylight Time, gerh...@valley.net writes: He reported that a CoBOL programmer submitted a sort job with all sort work files on the same 2321 data cell drive! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Peculiar CPU behavior of SYNCSORT?
Hard to say without knowing data patterns. Alt indexes can speed things up a lot another is interchange sort order and take Sortout of Long sort(1-24) and feed into the short sort 1-3,17-24. In a message dated 08/30/13 17:22:10 Central Daylight Time, peter.far...@broadridge.com writes: You're right, the sort orders are not the same. For the CPU example I gave below, the first sort uses these parameters: -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SR stupidity
Probably not old enough to have ordered anything online before In a message dated 08/28/13 13:27:47 Central Daylight Time, gib...@wsu.edu writes: The information you provide will be used to validate your entitlement and communicate with you about your service requests. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Outage Analyzer - Mapping Internet Outages in Realtime
http://www.outageanalyzer.com/ Compuware provides this tool for free at present. Might be useful for trends or Shoes of prey might be down! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IBM Network listserv
Doesn't matter. If it's a known list, listserv figures it out. Think they were trolling for a dead list. We've never hosted ibm-nets. We did have a Candle the same time ibm-main was started(June 1986), but it fell off into 'how long's your wick?' pretty quickly and was dropped. In a message dated 08/25/13 17:31:03 Central Daylight Time, ibmm...@intergate.com writes: The one that shows that the listserv is at lists...@listserv.ua.edu not lists...@listserv.uga.edu : -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT
Their server is probably infected with dread Corona malware...hold the lime! In a message dated 08/23/13 10:36:02 Central Daylight Time, bherr...@txfb-ins.com writes: get notifications when nothing was actually updated in the SR -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DASD INDEX Display
Most of the time this is something is 'broke'. A general scenario is IEHLIST of the pack to look for overlaps. If restoring a file to another pack it is helpful to now the UCAT where it was. ADRDSSU print with DUMP of VVDS should show DSN and UCAT. Then to further narrow it down IDCAMs DIAGNOSE for UCAT or VVDS can point out discrepancies. If the DIRF bit is flicked on you should see a message in the LOG INDEXED VTOC disabled. In the olden days we would run batch jobs to allocate temp dsns on packs in question to rebuild VTOC, but haven't done this in many moons-since RAID 5. If it's not a 'size' problem can just run CNVTIX to rebuild the Indexed VTOC. PDS86 and ISMF indicate VTOC construct with I. In a message dated 08/21/13 11:46:34 Central Daylight Time, retired-mainfra...@q.com writes: What do you want to know besides whether the index is enabled or not? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: SDSF ISFPARMs to SAF security
ISFACR will convert the ISFPARMS member to RACF commands? In a message dated 08/19/13 21:30:29 Central Daylight Time, stars...@mindspring.com writes: What version of z/OS and/or SDSF? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: List all dataset in system by HLQ
Venerable PDS cmd can do most of this. HLQ mask, VOL, PUB, PRI or STOR. ISMF has similar stuff if you can get the columns sorted outvbg. Break on Totals comes to mind for some reason... In a message dated 08/12/13 11:36:02 Central Daylight Time, mathwst...@bellsouth.net writes: You have just reminded me of DADSM, which is located on file 527 of the CBT tape. That program could list all datasets found on all online volumes and did give a space summary by volume and HLQ. There is also an option to list only certain volumes. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
IBM Redbooks | Faster DB2 Performance with IBM FlashSystem
IBM Redbooks | Faster DB2 Performance with IBM FlashSystem This is a pretty good overview(and fairly recent). The trick is what Ray Wicks used to call the 'Big Pitcher';i.e. storage, CPU, DASD, paging subsystem. I googled a little while but didn't find a current reference to sizing processor, SSD, Ziips and workload. FWIW DR sight need to be similarly configured. Craig Mullin's books on DB2 are classics but don't know if they've been update to v10 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: List all dataset in system by HLQ
Your storage management should take care of it. If they're not used they'll get archived. If they're on system packs there's probably a reason. Our only casuality from Y2K was the bleepin 19yr old fiche machine. Fortunately the source was readily available and were able to fix in a couple of passes. In a message dated 08/12/13 14:57:18 Central Daylight Time, mitchmc writes: equally important to find out those that are not used, and/or where/when they are used? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: R: R: Differences between CPU values from SMF30 and DB2 stats
Looking at the three page Newsletter .pdf says reply to this eMail with Analyzing DB2 in Sub but doesn't give a hint as to the email? In a message dated 8/9/2013 1:43:36 AM Central Daylight Time, fabio.ottavi...@epvtech.com writes: Newsletter 4 and 5 2010. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS
Couple things to check. BLKSIZE less than 3200. Nulls off. FF is like EOL for editor with Nulls on. HLASM also has disassembler but have never used on conversion attempts. In a message dated 8/9/2013 3:36:08 PM Central Daylight Time, roberto.hal...@gmail.com writes: I'll revise the loading procedure to see if I garbled the RLD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: R: Differences between CPU values from SMF30 and DB2 stats
Guess you could post a link or tinyurl where the paper could be found? In a message dated 08/08/13 12:39:40 Central Daylight Time, fabio.ottavi...@epvtech.com writes: Unfortunately I could not attach the graph because of List rules but results using SMF 100 are just a little bit lower than using SMF 30 OR 72. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
IBM Furloughs U.S. Hardware Employees to Reduce Costs - Bloomberg
IBM Furloughs U.S. Hardware Employees to Reduce Costs - Bloomberg Dark clouds rising -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement
Sperry used to have a balanced tree search that all compilers and assemblers used. Very small very fast. Less than 200 lines of code, but used instruction modification depending on paths taken. Fairly long intro, but we started getting in some large modeling routines from some of the big labs. Well balanced tree sort hurled on large programs. Sperry said the code was frozen and wouldn't take a fix. WAD. My smart friend David said he could fix it but would rewrite in Fortran translating from MIX? Turned out to be almost 300 lines of Fortran with no instruction modification. Definitely a tad slower but would allow the big modeling pgms to compile and run! In a message dated 08/01/13 13:33:40 Central Daylight Time, randy.gr...@primerica.com writes: This was much faster that trying to bebug clever use of alters -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: BLKSIZE=3120
Did you get a Reason Code? In a message dated 07/26/13 00:46:05 Central Daylight Time, d10j...@us.ibm.com writes: specification is still there, exists, I apparently lost that battle -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Greenbar
Rubber stamps...for cancellation? That stuff has gotten expensive. In a message dated 07/19/13 01:51:45 Central Daylight Time, brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com writes: I don't know why, there isn't anything to print on the back side with -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Greenbar
Long ago and far away our Director got several hundred boxes of 'Greenbar' at GSA in Anniston for like 10 cents a box. Nice paper easy to load and fold. After a few days the security officer issued a cease and desist. It had 'Top Secret' pre-printed in the margins...well we'll print on the other side NO YOU WON'T! In a message dated 07/18/13 16:36:05 Central Daylight Time, walter.dav...@edcgov.us writes: Our current supply of greenbar has lines on one side only. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
So should we ZAAP,ZIIP or z??P? In a message dated 07/10/13 19:21:45 Central Daylight Time, tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com writes: Eventually all of the active compilers will use the same backend so that when new hardware comes out we can exploit it with all langs quickly! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
