Re: MULTIVOLUME FILES THRU SMS

2005-08-27 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
use a mixture of: - space constaint relief (with Reduce Space up to) - dynamic volume count (SCR must be Y) - volume count - ravi. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:35:10 -0400, javier sotela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone: We are trying to use a disk pool using sms. The idea is

Re: Any way to turn on FASTSRT without recompile?

2005-08-27 Thread Gary Walker
Bill Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to clarify, if you have an Output Procedure but no Input Procedure, FASTSRT *will* impact input I/O. The only time it has no impact is if you have BOTH an Input and Output procedure. FYI, I certainly (absolutely)

Re: How Was Share?

2005-08-27 Thread James Smith
I was impressed by the numbers of people in attendance though I was expecting a few more faces from overseas especially Europe. Without mentioning names I personally thought some of the speakers were excellent and I was also impressed by the responsiveness of a few IBMers with whom I managed to

Re: How Was Share?

2005-08-27 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
James Smith wrote: [snip] One comment - if you are planning to go to Seattle - I might suggest booking your own hotel as I was not very impressed by rate that SHARE was able to negotiate. Nothing could possibly beat the convenience of staying at the Sheraton. It was literally _right next_

Re: How Was Share?

2005-08-27 Thread ibm-main
From: Edward E. Jaffe Nothing could possibly beat the convenience of staying at the Sheraton. It was literally _right next_ to the convention center ... In addition to Eds points I find it handy to stay in the conference from a safety/security point of view. Not knowing any American city, I

Re: Newsgroups

2005-08-27 Thread Stephen M. Wiegand
At 12:20 PM 08/26/2005, you wrote: Howard Brazee wrote: On 26-Aug-2005, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I also went to 204.153.244.171 as someone suggested to sign up for comp.lang.cobol; Well, I can read the postings, but I cannot reply nor initiate posts. There is obviously

Re: How Was Share?

2005-08-27 Thread Craddock, Chris
Eric Bielefeld asks; So, how was Share? Any earth shattering news? Anything us peons who can't go should know? It was great. I got to see all of my disreputable friends and even a few reputable ones. All of the usual suspects (Jaffe, Fagen etc.) plus some other guys you all know, John

Re: Most effective BUFNO?

2005-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
Does MVS (DFSMS, whatever) still do that? What we used to call double buffering? I thought they had gone to a scheme in which they used one SIO to fill all of your buffers, while you waited. The theory being that CPU/IO overlap would be between your task and other tasks/jobs? Am I wrong on that?

Re: Newsgroups

2005-08-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Stephen M. Wiegand wrote: At 12:20 PM 08/26/2005, you wrote: Howard Brazee wrote: On 26-Aug-2005, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I also went to 204.153.244.171 as someone suggested to sign up for comp.lang.cobol; Well, I can read the postings, but I cannot reply nor initiate

Re: How Was Share?

2005-08-27 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Craddock, Chris wrote: My own presentation on Thursday afternoon was almost a disaster, when my laptop had a hard fail and refused to boot. I was saved by Mark Zelden who downloaded my pitch from the share site via the wi-fi in the room and I was able to give it using his laptop. Started 5 min

Re: Most effective BUFNO?

2005-08-27 Thread Chuck Hopf
Since I helped Barry with the tests in 1984 and have repeated it with every new DASD device and OS release since then (it is a nice test to look for changes) I will chime in. 240K/BLKSIZE and 30 are both hard limits for non- extended format QSAM files. Why 240K? I dont know. Why 30? Might

Re: IDAL

2005-08-27 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Paul Hanrahan wrote: IDAW Is this supposed to be funny? An IDAL consisting of a single IDAW? -- .-. | Edward E. Jaffe|| | Mgr, Research Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: Anybody using the MSGRT command?

2005-08-27 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/27/2005 4:43:30 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You know you could have had the PUBS folks do a SURVEY on this at SHARE I don't think they did enough of them:-) Maybe Ed will run another of his quickie web polls. The last one was such a

Re: New Cobol Releases (was FASTSRT)

2005-08-27 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 27, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Bill, Thanks for reminding me of this issue. How do companies handle the installation and turning new cobol compilers over to the end users? 1. Do you just install it and let the programmers compile cobol programs as they

Re: New Cobol Releases (was FASTSRT)

2005-08-27 Thread Ed Gould
On Aug 27, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Bill Klein wrote: Ed, I am *not* maintaining a production COBOL (or any COBOL) environment these days (I'm on long-term disability). However, I did want to make my own personal suggestions: I was not aiming the question at you, it was a general question. I

Re: SRDF question

2005-08-27 Thread Ali
Thanks to Mike Patrick for your response, yes,SQ GLOBAL works ok. The version of HC that I am using is 4.0 Regards, Ali - Original Message - From: Patrick Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:26 PM Subject:

ETR / CLO Timer Connection to Singlemode DWDM Systems

2005-08-27 Thread Will
I've read some IBM redbooks and other documents that in general describe how you can extend ETR / CLO timer signals through DWDM systems.What I am completely baffled by is that the ETR / CLO signals are multimode, and the cards on DWDM systems like IBM 2029 and Nortel OPTera 5200 that

Re: Most effective BUFNO?

2005-08-27 Thread Mark Zelden
If you can get a hold of it, I recommend a paper from CMG 2000: VSAM and Non-VSAM Buffers - How Many are Enough. I know I have a printed copy, but I'm not sure if I have a soft copy to send. Obviously the paper is slightly dated at this point, but is still a great piece of work. Also... The