Re: Attends Orlando IBM EXPRO OCT 7

2006-09-09 Thread Tommy Tsui
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

HFS Vs ZFs

2006-09-09 Thread Tommy Tsui
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

P series Vs Z9-109 series

2006-09-09 Thread Tommy Tsui
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

Re: P series Vs Z9-109 series

2006-09-09 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
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

Re: Is no one reading the article?

2006-09-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
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

PGP Assistance Needed

2006-09-09 Thread Warner Mach
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

Re: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort

2006-09-09 Thread Tom Marchant
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

Re: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort

2006-09-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
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

It's No Game: IBM Uses PlayStation Chip For New Supercomputer

2006-09-09 Thread Ed Gould
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

On 9/13/56

2006-09-09 Thread Ed Gould
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

Macro IRARQSRV

2006-09-09 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
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

Re: Debugging SMS

2006-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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

Re: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort

2006-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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.

Re: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust

2006-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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

Call for Linux and Linux/390 Speakers at SHARE

2006-09-09 Thread Post, Mark K
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,