On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:15:26 -0500, McKown, John
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>Re: Supposed factor improvements over time in the integer perform
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
As others have told you, the relative GDG number is relative to the
start of the job and all the datasets finally get cataloged (and the GDG
base gets rolled) at step termination. What I would suggest is at
startup do a locate on GDG(0) to find the last GDG number. Ad
Re: Supposed factor improvements over time in the integer performance of
processors, there are some faulty numbers in this discussion, or at least
misleading. It has to do with cores versus chips.
Dean, with all due respect, no matter how much you try to fuzz it, they're
not directly comparable.
McKown, John wrote:
I guess, in that case, you'd need to detect that and start "reading
backwards" to find the first segment. Not a fun thing to consider. Or
just not bother to support VBS with a message like: "VBS is for SMF
only. Get a life!"
1) I had a life, but I squandered it working in th
Tim,
As others have stated, the easiest way to change the expiration date of an
active tape is simply use the ISPF interface or the old TIQ online
interface; or even the Vantage/GMI GUI interface (Graphical User Interface).
Or, if you want to do it with a batch job you could use TMSUPDTE to change
No, we didn't... The operators were asked to the time before last, but it
was forgotten. However, I passed the request onto the manager of the group
to make sure we get a dump the next time.
We asked CA about the call not returning and they said it was not their
problem since the call to an exte
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> >x86 processor performance has increased at roughly twice the rate as
Based upon my own experience attempting to negotiate with vendors over
whether it is "good" or "bad" that they use Key 8 CSA in their code, and if
it was "bad", whether they would actually fix their code, this sledgehammer
is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED.
Thank you, Jim. Once again, you've made another hu
On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Ken Brick wrote:
I seem to recall that EASYTREV/PLUS come with a set of sample SMF
programs at one stage.
Ken,
I had access to EASYTREV ala 1979 and yes I did a lot of reporting
with SMF data. However I could not (successfully) access all the new
types of SM
>*EXCELLENT* attitude. Should be more of it - let's hope you have more "wins"
>Jim.
I agree.
But, there's nothing to stop us, as customers, from changing the defaults.
YES, I know we may have problems.
But, we will also have opportunities.
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On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:48 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote:
> I still wanted to move to a default of NO quickly, as the
> slow progress in eliminating user key CSA convinced me that
> the sledgehammer approach was required. Hopefully, having
> to explain to security auditors why use of product X requir
>Oh, and before I forget it, PR/SM was IBM's answer to MDF, not vice versa. I
>think IBM was actually the second paying customer for MDF.
I worked at an alpha site of MDF. It was about three years before PR/SM.
The problem(s) back then were simple.
MDF did not talk to RMF, until RMF could handle
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>A dual core CPUs actually cause themselve
For example, the highest performing single-core Opteron (HP Proliant
System)
gets a 14.0 in SPECint peak, and 12.7 base. The best single-core Xeon
result (a Bull system), is 17.4 peak and 16.8 base. The best dual-core
Opteron submission is 14.9 peak and 13.5 base. The best dual-core score for
X
>A dual core CPUs actually cause themselves a bottleneck if they only have ONE
>bus to communicate to/with the outside world. This becomes another design
>issue that while producing apparent processor speed has to balance out against
>the ability of the bus (or buses) to handle data flow (which
If you add ExHPDM (Expert High Performance Data Mover) to the mix for
either FDR or DFDSS you can perform your backups and restores and
experience a reduction in elapse times ranging from 50% to 75%.
ExHPDM V6.2 can now be seamlessly implemented and does not require
having to change your curre
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Frankly, I think it is a very commonly held
Actually, I was rounding a bit. My original post on the subject indicated
that the span for x86 comparisons was Nov 2000 thru June 2006 (as I was
trying to use roughly the same period as in the post I was responding to
at
the time), and the increase was from 5.8 to 63.6, so the numbers should be
Dean Kent wrote:
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Part of mainframe processing
"power" lies in its ability to do effectively use SMP (up to 54-ways now
... more later). It's part of the equation. Good benchmarks are based on
computing throughput ... not individual chip speed.
If you a
>I seem to recall that EASYTREV/PLUS come with a set of sample SMF programs at
>one stage.
PANAUDIT -- from the same people that brought you PANVALET.
The programmes seemed to disappear when CA acquired EZTREIV and PANSOFT (not
exactly sure if I got the second company name correct).
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Too bus
Ed Gould wrote:
>
> In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and it wasn't
> simple either. I am not suggesting its impossible just a little more
> than simple it isn't. IIRC it was not possible in EASYTREV at least
> the version I had. SAS I know it can be done because that is what
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/19/2007
at 02:45 PM, Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Now, our problem is sometimes the call from the Roscoe RPF to the
>Control-M IOARKSL does not get returned.
Did you take a console dump of the relevant address spaces and submit
it to both vendors? If not,
In
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at 02:32 PM, Ron Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Has anyone used an iebgener(JCL) to transfer and convert ASCII to
>EBCDIC an mvs file...
OPTCD=Q will do a translation, but you may or may not find the
translate table to be appropriate. You'll have more c
I for one would be interested in just why one would buy a mainframe
if not for the processing power, and scalability, not to mention IO.
I am involved with a data center planning activity, and the Intel
servers and RS6000's consume far more cooling and power than the
little old z/BC we have. So
>why can't SERVERPACK be shipped with an initial value of "NO"?
Stay with NO. I'll be glad to help anyone who can't figure out how to change it
to YES.
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>x86 processor performance has increased at roughly twice the rate as mainframe
>processor performance.
Yes, but.
We run mainframes at 100%.
We run wintels at under 20%.
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>To this point, however, what I have heard is a lot of orthogonal discussion
>that does nothing at all to address the specific question of processor speed.
I don't think it's orthogonal.
IMO, MIPS is just one component in a complex environment.
If I could pull out and plug in the processor in a w
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> I really wasn't paying any attention to this thread. But, I happe
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> Actually, I have had this very argument with some previous cli
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> Unless you two are prepared to formulate your positions carefully
As soon as I can locate them. Might be a while.
Grant Ward Able wrote:
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I originally wanted to start right out with a default of NO
in 1.8, but Bob Rogers talked me out of it, so I instead settled
for stern language in the description of the parameter in
Initialization and Tuning Reference. Even there, the writer
>And someone forgot A to Z (uppercase).
I actually programmed in a language called 'Eh' (Canadian pun/joke), that was
very similar to B.
Then, the University of Waterloo lab decided to put (weak) typing in and called
it Zed.
We claimed that we had gone from Eh to Zed in programming languages.
Amazing, from a single letter to history lesson in only 6 posts.
And someone forgot A to Z (uppercase).
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Gerhard Postpischil
> > I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that Ed's
> reply of "b" m
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/20/2007
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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:03:16 -0400, Jim Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> >
> > The default was changed to ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO) in z/OS 1.9.
> >
>
> Wow! I am surprised that the default is being changed so soon when
> 90%+
Thanks
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Assuming you have both CF's defined in the structures preference lis
Hi Alan
Please see my responses laced with your questions below:
What about other Sysplex users like USS, WLM, LOGRR ?
Thx.
Ed
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> McKown, John wrote:
> > Outside of that, if this were to be done often
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> > I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that Ed's
> reply of "b" may be
McKown, John wrote:
Outside of that, if this were to be done often, then I'd write my own
program. In HLASM, assuming a sequential file, I'd look at the DS1LSTAR
(and DS1TRBAL if the DS is extended format). I would then use BSAM and
POINT myself at record 1 of either the last track or next-to-las
I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that Ed's reply of "b" may be
off topic. :-)
I also suspect this is a good thread for Friday grins and not much else.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
Considering that c is now available on the mainframe, perhaps
Ed's response was on topic, and an
Assuming you have both CF's defined in the structures preference list,
issue:
SETXCF START,RB,CFNAME=primarycf,LOC=OTHER
and the structures will be moved from primarycf to your secondary
LOC=NORMAL will put them back where originally defined.
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Tom Marchant writes:
I still don't think anyone would buy a System z because of it's sheer
processor speed. And I don't mean, "In part".
The question
Would anyone buy a z/Architecture machine just for its sheer processor
speed?
seems to me to be a very different one from the question
Wo
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System manages Structure duplexing?
Do you define all structures with a primary and alte
At 15:54 -0500 on 07/18/2007, Mark wrote about Dyn Alloc gives 2nd
instance of same GDG name:
I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running instance.
I allocated one instance of a GDG and got the G0207V00 extension.
4 seconds later, I allocated another instance (different DD
Jeffrey D. Smith wrote:
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This may well be documented somewhere, but I haven't has
Hi
We have two machines.
Is there away or can we create a method to move all structures from one
coupling facility to another?
And then can we put them back where we had/want them later?
I looking at the POR function and wondering how we can do 1 machine at a
time and keep the CF envir
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:05:52 -0700, Dean Kent wrote:
>> >> I don't think
>> >> there's anyone who buys a mainframe for its sheer processing power.
>> >
>> > These servers *are* purchased, in part,
>> >for their processing power.
>>
>> "In part"?
>>
>
>I really have no idea what point yo
REGION on the // EXEC statement is useless, unless the same or larger
REGION was specified on then JOB card.
Barry Merrill
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You can use the CA-1 dialog that came with the product if you have
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command line and overtype the date. Pressing enter will let you confirm
it...
Hope that helps!
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I wasn't aware that people think mainfr
Dean Kent wrote:
In any case, raw MIPS improvements are easily researched. For example,
the charts at http://www.tech-news.com/publib/ show the largest zSeries
processor in 2000, made available in 1Q00, was a 2064-116, capable of
delivering 2694 MIPS; the largest System z processor today, made
av
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:19:11 -0400, Arthur T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> (Also,
>someone noted the problem of concatenating variable named
>'x' with a quoted string by abutting them.)
>
Problem? Ignorance the first time you ignore the REXX syntax rules and
stupidity if you keep trying. Easily
>On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:04:50 -0500, Brian Peterson
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>I think it will help us all significantly when IBM makes ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO)
>>the default, if only to encourage our vendors to redouble their efforts to
>>fix this bad bad programming practice. I sure hope this
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:27:32 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I have little doubt you
>can do it in rexx but how many people would be able to debug it (if
>need be).
>
>Ed
>
Far more than could do it with Natural, EasyTrieve, SAS, Assembler, .
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I believe that the tape has to be opened as output to change the date or
you could add a second file with a expdt and the volume would be saved or
the easiest is to update the TMC
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>
> This may well be documented somewhere, but I haven't has yet seen
It's Friday and the brain apparently turned off, and RTFM isn't working
well
When running with CA-1 active, is it possible to reset the expiration date
of an existing tape dataset via the EXPDT= parameter in JCL? Some of us
thought that at one time it was possible, at least for single-data
I replied to this directly to the newsgroup yesterday when email delivery
was interrupted. I know some don't read the newsgroup, so I just want to
reply again with the pertinent data in case anyone is interested. I hope I
am not breaching ettiquette by doing this - but if so, I apologize in
advan
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> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:51:48 -0700, Dean Kent wrote:
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> >...As I said, Intel, for
> >example, does not use SOI and seems to be producing very high clockrate
> >devices without it, which (currently) outperform their ri
This may well be documented somewhere, but I haven't has yet seen it. I
just downloaded JBOSS 4.2.1 and am looking at it. Well, it's cheaper
than WAS! It keeps its configuration files in XML format. Now, usually
XML is "plain text" as opposed to "binary". So when I created the z/OS
JBOSS, I transla
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The nasty part is testing bit fields in COBOL. The LE bit test routines
are expensive to run. (I haven't looked recently at COBOL to see if
there are native ways to do this that don't involve standing on one's
head.)
CALL 'CEESITST' USING WOR
In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:25:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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>>Jack Kelly wrote:
>> a
> b
I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that Ed's reply of "b" may be
off topic. :-)
I also suspect this is a good thread for Friday grins and not much else.
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 07/20/2007 08:39:33 AM:
> >SELECT FROM(IN) TO(OUT) ON(5,1,CH) LAST USING(CTL1)
> >/*
> I'm guessing that the ON clause tells it to look in position 5,
> but what tells it that a blank is what it's supposed to look for?
DFSORT isn't looking for a blank - it's just looking fo
The LPAR name, HW Name and other goodies can be found in the ECVT (point to by
CVTECVT , mapping macro in IHAECVT in MODGEN).
The HW model can be found in node descriptor pointed to by CVTHID.
"CVTL1" is some sort of bi-lingual label - not for use in ASM.
"CVTRELNO" can be used if you establish
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| and I apologize for the duplicate - fixed the date
Abstract:
The newest release of z/VM was generally available on June 29, 2007 and
has significant improvements to performace and ca
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Hi,
Can anybody just help Dieter , at the LA times quickly ?
Note: There must be module some where but I do not have time to get "tu it"
this morning.
Thanks.
Anton
Storr, Dieter wrote:
> Hi Anton (not SAG-L),
>
> Do you know how to get info from the CVT? or examples on the Web?
>
> The f
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Abstract:
The newest release of z/VM was generally available on June 29, 2007 and
has significant improvements to performace and capacity. This Live
Virtual Class (LVC) session will de
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/20/2007
12:04:50 AM:
> I think it will help us all significantly when IBM makes
ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO)
> the default, if only to encourage our vendors to redouble their efforts
to
> fix this bad bad programming practice. I sure hope this default change
The other person was quite accurate in that the (+1) level of a GDG
applies to the entire job, not to a particular step. So if you need to
allocate multiples, use (+1), then (+2), etc. . .
If the task is a single program that's trying to produce two of the same
GDG's where second is optional(not
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:48:03 -0700, Frank Yaeger wrote:
>
>Of course, if you already happen to have the same value in all of the
>records, this can be simplified even more. For example, if every record
>had a blank in position 5, you could use this DFSORT/ICETOOL job:
>
>//S2 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
>//T
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine
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> Subject: DFDSS versus FDR
>
>
> Many moons ago I had access to the FDR products for backup
> and recovery
Many moons ago I had access to the FDR products for backup and recovery but
now I only have DFDSS. As I remember, one of the big differentiators at the
time was that with FDR you could do a dataset restore (including VSAM
datasets) from a full volume physical dump but that wasn't possible with
D
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 07/20/2007 07:13:38 AM:
> There's a thread active in TSO-REXX in which the OP wished
> to extract the last record from a data set. Of course, this
> spawns a school of increasingly byzantine suggestions:
>
> Read into a stem and use the STEM.0th element
>
> Edit Mac
G'day,
Please let me know if there is a way to extract all the jobs (with start
and end times) from spool. The requirement is to provide a daily report
on jobs that ran, with their start time, end time and return code.
Is there a way I can use SDSF pgm to extract contents of all the jobs
(or
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:27:32 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have little doubt you
>can do it in rexx but how many people would be able to debug it (if
>need be).
>
At least as many as could for any program written in any other language
considering rexx syntax is fairly simple (one
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 06:31 -0700, Ray Mullins wrote:
> In something as compute-intensive as SMF triplets, every little bit
> helps.
The nasty part is testing bit fields in COBOL. The LE bit test routines
are expensive to run. (I haven't looked recently at COBOL to see if
there are native ways t
On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
--SNIP-
If you do see an IBM software product that isn't yet available on the
mainframe -- one of the shrinking number -- and you'd strongly
consider
buying it for the mainframe, go ahead and ask your IBM r
Charles Hardee wrote on 2007-07-20 10:16:57:
> What about simply another internal variable, similar to say, TITLE.
> One could then code
>
> For Page: EVAL PAGENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
> For Line: EVAL LINENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
>
> I mean, if one could dream and hope, I
Hi,
Just to prove that we do not all think a like :
The orginal question was asked by somebody working for a consultance.
A consultance that charges customers exorbantly high fees and then they give
the work to H1B holders that earn $10 per hour.
So maybe we should ask more questions ex.
a. W
Ed,
>
> In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and it
> wasn't simple either. I am not suggesting its impossible just a
> little more than simple it isn't. IIRC it was not possible in
> EASYTREV at least the version I had. SAS I know it can be done
It is dirt simple in Easytriev
Gil,
You can do this in many different ways with the sort. Assuming an
80-byte record the following control cards is one way you can accomplish
this:
INREC FIELDS=(1,80,SEQNUM,4,BI)
SORT FIELDS=(81,4,BI,D)
.
OUTFIL OUTREC=(1,80),ENDREC=1
John Reda
Syncsort, Inc.
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>
> There's a thread active in TSO-REXX in which the OP wished
> to extr
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
> Then I would suggest that at the annual stock holders meeting create
> a "vote" and put it before the board.
Hee! There was a time when I was almost that desperate to get a JES2
APAR accepted. After I unsuccessfully lobbied level-2 for a fix
On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:08:50 -0500, Ed Gould
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As for as being "impossible to use", it's a SMOP and there are plenty
of examples on the CBT (including DAF).
In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and
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>
>
> Thank so much John for the information. Its just what I need
In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:08:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
update is that it will be fixed by 4:30 p.m. eastern time.
>>
If you need to exorcise sadomasochistic tendencies, the Open is being
broadcast on TNT.
** Get
Hi Bob,
What about simply another internal variable, similar to say, TITLE.
One could then code
For Page: EVAL PAGENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
For Line: EVAL LINENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
I mean, if one could dream and hope, I would think this might be the
easiest
There's a thread active in TSO-REXX in which the OP wished
to extract the last record from a data set. Of course, this
spawns a school of increasingly byzantine suggestions:
Read into a stem and use the STEM.0th element
Edit Macro
Sort into reverse order and take the first.
Cou
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:20:10 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:44:57 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:45:21 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote:
>>
>>>I follow the list through the web browser. Occasionally, I notice the last
>>>word of a line is duplicated on the nex
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:54:46 -0400, in
bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "pdc"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
just a quick question. (double posted to TSOREXX)
Is there a difference, performance or otherwise, between
the following two
commands?
On the more general R
In a message dated 7/20/2007 8:03:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that puts them there, SYSLOG won't cut it. Even if he does it's not a good
method .. for a lot of reasons.
>>
Yeah, MXG/SAS on healthy PC keep you well tuned and make pretty reports the
PHB's can
Charles Hardee wrote on 2007-07-20 08:22:06:
> Thanks for the info Bob.
>
> Unfortunately, this is a report currently being produced via code from a
> CLIST. I'm not sure I want to add much code to it, however, as the
> CLISTs are in the process of being converted to REX EXECs.
> In any case, your
RMF is not my main topic. Therefore I use the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter to
investigate our LPAR performance.
But a sorted SMF dataset is mandatory for reports and overviews. I assumed
the Spreadsheet Reporter handles this automatically.
Albert
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On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:11 AM, David Andrews wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 22:50 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
Write the president of IBM and let him know. If the letter makes it
to him (doubtful) he might make a difference.
We wrote such a letter to John Akers 20 years ago, and it resulted in
*immedia
What is the host & port for the 3270 interface?
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I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running
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