Re: SMF Type 19 and IPL Hang

2006-12-25 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 07:52 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: In a related issue, early SYSVTOC release during volume dump processing seems to be popular among some contributors to this list. I *assume* that's a minority position since the default behavior is to hold SYSVTOC for the d

Second Life & Turing Machine

2006-12-25 Thread Warner Mach
For folks who are on 'Second Life' here are a couple of SLURLs that might be of interest, leading to sites that you may not have seen: (1) SL Computer History Museum: A couple of exhibits based on Turing: (a) A Turing Machine. (b) A 'chatbot' that is loosely related to the 'Turing Test'. Talk to

Re: ftp job submission

2006-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/23/2006 at 08:46 PM, Johnny Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >However, I'm just curious about this because I know some softwares >like Tivoli Workload Scheduler can do this job. Then, how TWS did >that? If they use 'loop' too, They don't. They use privileged interfac

Re: Max Allocation w/ Space= DD

2006-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/22/2006 at 03:07 PM, Dean Montevago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >//SPACE=(CYL,(4000,4000),RLSE), That's 6; an unsigned halfword will hold 6 but not 6+6, so you can't get a second extent unless you use extended format, which you don't specify

Re: Question about SVC 109

2006-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/23/2006 at 06:32 PM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >No; the ESR number goes from 0 to 99. My appologies; I recalled the naming convention as having been IGXxx109 for SVC 109 with R15=xx, but in fact it seems to be IGX00xxx. -- Shmuel

Re: Super-Friday

2006-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/22/2006 at 03:48 PM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >To one and all - all the best for the season. We may have agreed and >disagreed this year, and we may agree and disagree in the coming >year, but that's no reason not to wish all and sundry a happy holiday

Re: SMF Type 19 and IPL Hang

2006-12-25 Thread Shane
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 08:24 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > A lot can chage on a volume in an hour ... You sure ???. Apparently you have been happily enq'ing this volume without noticing any (other) waits. Can't be too active. Regardless, this is what our jobs are all about - finding the best soluti

Heads-Up: OA19281 PSA Overlay for z/OS 1.8, and bad HOLDDATA for Everyone

2006-12-25 Thread Brian Peterson
According to the description of OA19281 (a z/OS 1.8-only APAR), GRS in z/OS 1.8 is frequently overlaying 16 bytes of PSA, but only occasionally causes noticeable problems. Hmmm. I'm not z/OS 1.8, so I hadn't noticed the APAR. That is, until yesterday when I tried to download service using RECEIV

Re: Heads-Up: OA19281 PSA Overlay for z/OS 1.8, and bad HOLDDATA for Everyone

2006-12-25 Thread Shane
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 16:54 -0600, Brian Peterson wrote: > when I tried to download service using RECEIVE ORDER. Job ended RC=8, due > to syntax error in the HOLDDATA file. I thought, "Huh?". Cute, very cute. Look at the time on Brians post !!!. Man, I hope they are paying you plenty. Shane .

Re: Heads-Up: OA19281 PSA Overlay for z/OS 1.8, and bad HOLDDATA for Everyone

2006-12-25 Thread Brian Peterson
I earn almost as much for posting tidbits I come across to IBM-MAIN as you do, Shane! Or is it twice as much? Or, half as much? I forget ! Join us again at SHARE some time. February 11-16, 2007 in Tampa, Florida, or August 12-17, 2007 in San Diego, California. It'd be great to see you ag