Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
OK, Dean, here you go: a single IBM System z core employs a lower clock oscillator rate than an X86 core (new 2007 v. new 2007) And that fact is approximately 0.1% relevant to the achievement of particular business outcomes within a particular time at a particular fully measured risk-adju

OT Fits all of us

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Gould
Just change one or two points And it fits every Email group or list! How many group members does it take To change a lightbulb? One to change the light bulb and to post That the light bulb has been changed. Fourteen to share similar experiences Of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb Cou

Fw: COBOL Functions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Klein
Although the '02 ANSI/ISO Standard does allow for "user-defined" functions, these are NOT supported by current releases of IBM's Enterprise COBOL. (Some vendors of Windows and Unix COBOL compilers do already support it). On the other hand, What do you mean by a "function"? If you want to

Re: JAVA SAX XML parser - GOTCHA!

2007-07-21 Thread Nagesh
John, After converting the .xml files to EBCDIC, try this in prolog and start JBOSS. Regards, Nags. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IB

COBOL Functions

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Edwards
We have a need to write one or more FUNCTIONS in COBOL, to date we have been unable to find any reference to doing such. Does anyone know if this can be one? Has anyone done it? Several members of the staff say it can be doen, but are unable to show any documentation on it. TIA ___

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 17 Jul 2007 19:21:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Dean Kent wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: "Howard Brazee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >> To: >> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:29 AM >> Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'wh

Re: regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 21 Jul 2007 06:10:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >The question how SMF records can be accessed with any generality is being >fudged. > >One can now access some of them some of the time in (modern) COBOL, which >does support the data type FUNCTION POINTER. With the ability to us

Re: regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:32:31 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:09 AM, john gilmore wrote: > >> ... >> >> SMF records can be accessed and manipulated using HLASM routines, >> and this can be done in PL/I too. It cannot, in general, be done >> in COBOL or indeed in C/C++. You forgot t

Re: regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:09 AM, john gilmore wrote: The question how SMF records can be accessed with any generality is being fudged. One can now access some of them some of the time in (modern) COBOL, which does support the data type FUNCTION POINTER. COBOL does not, however, support self-d

Re: regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-21 Thread john gilmore
The question how SMF records can be accessed with any generality is being fudged. One can now access some of them some of the time in (modern) COBOL, which does support the data type FUNCTION POINTER. COBOL does not, however, support self-defining records, illustrated by the trivial PL/I con

Re: Regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-21 Thread Ken Brick
Ed Gould wrote: > 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 SMF records (those with variable subtypes and with variable > portions of data). I was at one time able to access to get at

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

2007-07-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I haven't seen anything to rebut the notion that mainframe processors are >slower than other architectures Could that be because it's irrelevant? There's more to a transaction than the processor speed, regardless of the platform. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! --