Bob Stark wrote:
In all the years since this post, has anyone come up with a new, good,
foolproof way to have one LPAR in a JES2 SYSPLEX only run SYSPROG jobs
during a test window?
This is easy in JES3 since job class groups -- no JES2 equivalent -- may
be individually activated or inactiv
Hello Bob,
1.Use Scheduling Environments: ours is called TECHSUPP.
2.Ensure all batch jobclasses have a default SCHENV coded.
This makes sure that no job slips trough the "no SCHENV" gap.
$TJOBCLASS(*),SCHENV=something
3.Use TYPRUN=JCLHOLD on your jobs to make sure
On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
---SNIP---
Why would anyone ever use uncatalogued data sets?
-SNIP-
Paul,
I have never cataloged DLIB type datasets .
At least in my case, I don't catalog any non operational datasets.
Which ones are t
Hi Gil,
Of course we want/need uncataloged datasets for our target datasets.
At present in my sandbox, I am supporting 3 different levels of our IPL res set
as targets, and 3 different versions as active IPL res setsthat gives me 6
sets of duplicated datasets.
It is far simpler to use unc
Hi,
While reading this article
(http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/wlm/documents/velocity/velocity.html
), I noticed the reference to "Dispatching Management in MVS - TCBs to
Enclaves", Pierce, Bernard R., CMG95.
I searched the web but cannot find it. I also hit another one from
Pi
History sometime return and sometime not.
I never heard about Arbiter and my MFNetDisk is different (read the all
features).
But everyone are welcome to test the product www.mfnetdisk.com and not to
put it in production tomorrow. If you put the product to production then I
can promise you that
The documented (and functional) way to do partial replacement in current
COBOL is documented at:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/igy3lr31/8.1.7.3
Int the part starting,
"The COPY statement with REPLACING phrase can be used to replace parts of
words."
However, a be
Did you try using the "Configure 3270 Sessions" task on the HMC? This task
lets you configure 3270 sessions that will get started whenever the HMC
starts. The task lets you specify the IP address etc. for the target host.
Kurt Schroeder
IBM Endicott - HMC Development
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/08/2007
08:21:55 PM:
> >Otherwise, as I recall [MVS environments], that page is Key0
> non-fetch protected.
>
> Not true any more. The upper half of virtual page 0 (aka PSA) is fetch
> protected by yet another different, independent protection
> me
In a message dated 11/8/2007 6:21:04 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In the MVS world, if a Problem State program attempts to modify 0xxx
(where x is 0-512 decimal and regardless of the content of the current
base register) and LAP is on... So it is not truly avai
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/08/2007
07:20:09 PM:
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> Behalf Of Jim Mulder
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:07 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar'
>
> IBM
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:27 PM
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Thompson, Steve wrote:
> You did say dedicated. And it certainly appears to me to b
Thompson, Steve wrote:
You did say dedicated. And it certainly appears to me to be both
dedicated and reserved (by architectural definition).
In the MVS world, if a Problem State program attempts to modify 0xxx
(where x is 0-512 decimal and regardless of the content of the current
base re
Most I dealt with in the mid-1980s were Tandem NonStop.
Later,
Ray
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/08/2007
06:23:58 PM:
Actually, no. We a
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/08/2007
06:23:58 PM:
> No, there is no such 24 bit virtual address. With only 4,096 pages
> that are 24-bit addressable, I guess we didn't want to dedicate one of
> them for that purpose.
>
>
> Actually, yes. It is address x'00' and was called PS
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:26 PM
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For at least 10 years before that, Bruce was easily the most active
poster
in th
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/08/2007
12:24:52 PM:
No, there is no su
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From: "Jousma, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Bruce Black passed away
I'm surprised no one pulled this tidbit up to remember Bruce. From
Google:
Top posters:
All time
4471 [EMAIL
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/08/2007
12:24:52 PM:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:43:03 -0800 Edward Jaffe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> :>There is also a one-page "hole" at 7000. (Another handy
> :>implementation choice made by your friendly-neighborhood z/OS
developers!)
>
> In
Hi all,
Does anyone remember, or have any details about a product called "Arbiter"?
It was a kind of client-server thing which (as best I can remember) allowed
host apps to see PC hard disks as DASD. This was a way of sharing data
between PCs to the Host - save data on local hard disk, the
> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:54 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Even got the capitalization right!!!
>
> YES!!
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.isham-
> research.co.uk/mainframe_2008.html
>
> C
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:53:36 -0500, Jousma, David wrote:
>We expect that now that you are going part-time. :-)
>
Yeah, part time:
Cast out the line, Check IBM-Main
Reel in a fish, Check IBM-MAIN
Cast out the line again, Check IBM-Main
Pop the top on a frosty one, Check IBM-Main
That wo
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:07:15 -0600 Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:43:23 -0600, Roland Schiradin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the
disassembler
:>>should decode them based on the latest level of possibl
Roland Schiradin wrote:
>
> >doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the
> disassembler
> >should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why
> would
> >you limit this?
It's all a guess. One would typically assume that, if you're
disassembling code that r
YES!!
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.isham-research.co.uk/mainframe_2008.html
Check out the capitalization in the second paragraph. Posted in July 2005 -
OVER TWO YEARS
AGO - and as accurate
today as the day it was written.
Anyone still subscribing to Gartner? Why?
You'll all hear mo
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:43:23 -0600, Roland Schiradin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassembler
>should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why would
>you limit this?
It's useful to limit the opcodes understood
At 11:58 -0600 on 11/08/2007, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re: High
order bit in 31/24 bit address:
And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to
have Braille keys? DU
The one who decided that if they were in a car, they'd be in the back
left seat behind the chauff
>From a Hasselblad brochure:
"The Hasselblad 6 x 6 cm ( 2 1/4 x 2 1/4) square format uses size 120 film and
the square
format eliminates the need to turn the camera sideways for landscape or
portrait."
It's very nearly Friday now.
I travel very frequently from Sheffield Midland Station with a
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:42 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
>
> >Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above
the
> >line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct with the
> >x'7fff', I have it now... it is a pitty that IBM did not use the
> >lowest bit to si
I first met Bruce back in the mid/late 80's as part of a local NaSPA
chapter (SPONJ - Systems Programmers of New Jersey). He stuck with us
as long as we lasted (2 years or so, the memory is fading) and even held
a few meetings at Innovation in Little Falls. He was always supportive
of us in tho
> I'm surprised no one pulled this tidbit up to remember Bruce. From
> Google:
>
> Top posters:
> All time
> 4471 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 3769 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Notice Bruce is #3 on the all-time list with 3622 posts, only
following
> our very own mainframe historian Shmue
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Any idea which opcodes are duplicates? Where are the vector facility
opcodes documented?
I don't know about official IBM documentation, but Abe Kornelis has an
excellent overview at his hlasm.com site. Check this out:
http://www.hlasm.com/english/opcd00.htm
C
Not sure if this helps but I had a two step method that worked
What I did was setup the JESPARMS so all Jobclasses but 1 were specified
SCAN=YES (so anything submitted was scanned as though TYPRUN=SCAN was specified
on the jobcard) and we, the SP's, knew what that 1, non SCAN=YES, class was.
T
> -Original Message-
> From: Edward Jaffe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:13 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler
>
> David Cole wrote:
> > Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong,
> > but it
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:13 PM
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>
> David Cole wrote:
> > Because sometimes opcodes chan
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:13 PM
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>
>
> David Cole wrote:
> > Because sometimes opcodes chan
David Cole wrote:
Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong,
but it seems to me that some of the new opcodes that came out in the
late 90s were the same as some of the old vector processor opcodes. ...
I never knew that! I always assumed all new opcodes were completely
I am planning to, at least at this point in the day.
Art
At 02:15 PM 11/8/2007, Ken Porowski wrote:
>Anyone on the list going to the viewing tonight?
>
==
Art Celestini Celestini Development Services
Phone: 201-670-1674
Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong,
but it seems to me that some of the new opcodes that came out in the
late 90s were the same as some of the old vector processor opcodes. ...
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We expect that now that you are going part-time. :-)
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I'm surprised no one pulled this tidbit up to remember Bruce. From
Google:
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We had a little mail glitch with our primary mail server yesterday.
All is well now. Sorry for the delays or burps.
Darren
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Thompson, Steve wrote:
>This message arrived in my inbox about 45 minutes after sending it. And
>that was after contacting the BAMA EDU help desk to ask
Hi Gene,
doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassemble
should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why would
you limit this?
Roland
>The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets
>you limit the valid op codes to an
You could set up a Scheduling Environment for Sysprog jobs (ONLY) and
another one for everything else that's batch. During normal operation
both are active on all sysplex LPARs. During the test window, turn OFF
the "Everything Else" environment on the LPAR you're testing on, leaving
only the Sysp
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:14:42 -, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
>Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above the
>line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct with the
>x'7fff', I have it now... it is a pitty that IBM did not use the
>lowest bit to signal the lin
In a message dated 11/8/2007 1:02:40 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A Direct Access Storage Device read of a 4K
block, if the data is not in the DASD Subsystem's cache, would take at
least
one millisecond, which is ten to the minus three power seconds. The
d
Bob,
Using just WLM? Not that I know of.
Using just one class of initiators that only SYSPROGS know are there,
and stopping/starting them on a schedule, might get you there, but it's
far from foolproof.
JES2 exits can get you there (to help make the one jobclass thing
foolproof).
Thruput Manag
Radoslav,
The advantages of having such a software product are as follows:
- Report archival: An important production report is preserved for a certain
period of time, as long as you / the law requires.
- Online viewing: A user can view a report on the screen instead of having
to wait for the hardc
Anyone on the list going to the viewing tonight?
Ken Porowski
AVP Systems Software
CIT Group
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>And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have
>Braille keys?
The one that decided it was cheaper to make one kind of key-pad, than to make
specialty ones.
Just plug&play.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Vista X64 ? ..
You did not get the X128 version it's got less BLACK holes in it...
and no ZIIP/ZAAP processors.
Anton
Ray Mullins wrote:
I am playing catch-up from fighting (and still fighting) Vista x64 fires on my
own computer that has blocked my reading of e-mail...and I find this.
In a message dated 11/8/2007 11:59:26 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have
Braille keys?
>>
Doncha think it was same one that said standards and interchangeability were
cheaper than maintaining sep
In all the years since this post, has anyone come up with a new, good,
foolproof way to have one LPAR in a JES2 SYSPLEX only run SYSPROG jobs
during a test window?
$P XEQ seems to work great to run no batch at all
$T JOBCLASS affects the other LPARs as well as this one.
$T MEMBER(sysid),IND
In a message dated 11/8/2007 12:55:16 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
tried to put the time for computer events into perspective.
A 100-MIPS processor can execute 100 million "average" instructions per secon
d, so one "average" instruction takes one hundred-milliont
Rick Fochtman wrote:
And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have
Braille keys? DU
My bank has a prominent sign at the entry to the drive-in lane
"Caution - Watch for pedestrians using ATM". And I've used it
both ways.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
-
In a message dated 11/8/2007 12:46:39 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Who wants to pay for the companies to supply two sets of ATM keys, one
which can be used anywhere, and the other can only be used in walk-up
ATMs?
Which is also why we now have assembly and inst
(Cross-posted to IBM-VM and IBM-MAIN)
A buddy asked me:
"At a previous employer, someone had an article, poster or something (I know -
real specific - it was 15+ years ago) that tried to put the time for computer
events into perspective. It started with the quickest instruction (RR) having a
b
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> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: RMDS
>
>
> [...]
> > RMDS is "Report Management and Distribution System" or
> something like
>
Hi,
Someone I know say the way to set in omegamon for cics so a transaction
automatically cancel after an excessive consuming of resources.
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[...]
RMDS is "Report Management and Distribution System" or something like
that. It takes reports from the SPOOL and places them in VSAM files,
possibly indexing and or subsetting them. Users can then logon and look
at their list of reports and view them or print them.
Without this product, us
On 8 Nov 2007 09:59:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) wrote:
>And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have
>Braille keys? DU
Who wants to pay for the companies to supply two sets of ATM keys, one
which can be used anywhere, and the other can only be
On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:58:10 -0600 Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
:>And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had
to have
:>Braille keys? DU
Nothing wrong with that - if placed on the passenger side, n
And a lot of the roads have those bumps between the lanes.
Aren't they for Braille driving?
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:10 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: High or
Lynd, Eugene (Contractor) (J6C) wrote:
The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets
you limit the valid op codes to an architecture level such as XA or
370 (and optionally list the valid OP codes at that level). The Disassembler
(ASMDASM) has a comparable SPTABLE option w
Pommier, Rex R. wrote:
Ummm, the same person who figured out it was cheaper to just build all
the ATM's with the same keypad, whether they were a drive-up one or one
in the wall at the mall?
A bunch of low-life attorneys made a "ton" of money on this. But, it
turns out that the braille keyp
Thanks John.
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:13 PM
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> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL
The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets
you limit the valid op codes to an architecture level such as XA or
370 (and optionally list the valid OP codes at that level). The Disassembler
(ASMDASM) has a comparable ÓPTABLE option which "Specifies the operation
code table
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:58:10 -0600 Rick Fochtman wrote:
>
> :>And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's
> had to have :>Braille keys? DU
>
> Nothing wrong with that - if
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:04 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: RMDS
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM product, I can't
>
Thanks Mark.
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:08 PM
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Dean Montevago wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
>
> ---
>
> >> You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a
> benefit with
> >> enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the
> very ordina
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:58:10 -0600 Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>And what intellectual paralytic decided that drive-up ATM's had to have
:>Braille keys? DU
Nothing wrong with that - if placed on the passenger side, not the driver
side.
--
Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dean Montevago wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM product, I can't
> find anything on IBMLINK that discribes the product.
>
> TIA
> Dean
>
> Dean Montevago
> Sr. Systems Specialist
> Visiting Nurse Service of New York
> (212) 609 - 5596
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Hi,
Does anyone know what product this is ? It's an IBM product, I can't
find anything on IBMLINK that discribes the product.
TIA
Dean
Dean Montevago
Sr. Systems Specialist
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
(212) 609 - 5596
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rick,
Ummm, the same person who figured out it was cheaper to just build all
the ATM's with the same keypad, whether they were a drive-up one or one
in the wall at the mall?
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
S
---
You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with
enough marketing. Look
at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone.
Exactly. I could argue my cell phone is more "accessible" for blind --
or even just aging -- people
I am playing catch-up from fighting (and still fighting) Vista x64 fires on my
own computer that has blocked my reading of e-mail...and I find this.
I don't do "me too" type stuff, but here I must.
Bruce was an excellent (and that word is not encompassing enough) contributor
to this list; I hav
Jim, at least as far back as z/OS 1.4, copytree is now being shipped by IBM in
the '/samples' directory. You no longer need to go the the Tools and Toys
page.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:33:41 +, Jim McAlpine
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone got a copy of copytree that they can send me. I've
Anyone got a copy of copytree that they can send me. I've been to the unix
tools and toys page and it is listed on there under the link for unix tools
but if I go to that page it isn't there aggg.
Jim McAlpine
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:43:03 -0800 Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
:>There is also a one-page "hole" at 7000. (Another handy
:>implementation choice made by your friendly-neighborhood z/OS developers!)
Interesting. Is that hole documented?
Is there any 24 bit virtual address which is
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Knutson, Sam) writes:
> You should have the PTFs for z/OS APAR OA17114 installed if you are
> using paged fixed buffers in DB2 V8. Not having it
Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
Last one...
I have not checked this for myself yet, and probably won't have the time
in the next few weeks... In theory... If I allocate 200 bytes of storage
at x'7f00', and my program, the way some Cobol programs are, writes
1600 bytes there, what would the address
Thanks
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
Sent: 08 November 2007 04:20 nm
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar'
In a message dated 11/8/2007 10:02:17 A.M. Central Standard
This message arrived in my inbox about 45 minutes after sending it. And
that was after contacting the BAMA EDU help desk to ask questions. I had
gone to the web site and noticed that it was not showing any postings
for 8-NOV-07.
Bill Klein's COBOL copy message was the first to show up, at about 15
In a message dated 11/8/2007 9:47:00 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is IBM Main down?
>>
It was, but the three finger salute made it all better. I was mentioning
Parker Brothers and Monopoly but doesn't seem as funny today
*
In a message dated 11/8/2007 10:02:17 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have not checked this for myself yet, and probably won't have the time
in the next few weeks... In theory... If I allocate 200 bytes of storage
at x'7f00', and my program, the way some Cobol
> Why would anyone ever use uncatalogued data sets?
Multiple SMP/E zones with the same named datasets on different volume
sets.
One could use an alias (like the SSAs that server pac generates), but I
prefer to know that when I set a boundary to a particular zone, that the
right set of data sets
While we don't have SA, we use regular NetView to do this. You have to run the
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: 08 November 2007 04:12 nm
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CSA 'above the bar'
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:24 AM
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> Last one...
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> I have not checked this for myself yet,
If You have an example of a "work-around" for the partial word replacement
I would be grateful for that. Note that a change in existing copys is not an
option.
(If that would change the field names or other functional changes.)
You cannot use nested COPY statements with COPY REPLACING. (IBM)
GP = $$$
ICF = $$
IFL or IFA = $
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Chase, John
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zAAP question
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Last one...
I have not checked this for myself yet, and probably won't have the time
in the next few weeks... In theory... If I allocate 200 bytes of storage
at x'7f00', and my program, the way some Cobol programs are, writes
1600 bytes there, what would the addresses be, would it jump across
John,
Apologies, I keep on forgetting that the '8' just signals the above the
line, you and Tom and all the others are quite correct with the
x'7fff', I have it now... it is a pitty that IBM did not use the
lowest bit to signal the line... x'0001' for 24-bit and x'0002'
for 32-bit, it
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:37:15 -0500, Pinnacle wrote:
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>Run the UNLOAD command to get the DDDEF's in UCLIN format. Then you'll have
>to hack the UCLIN yourself to add VOLUME and UNIT parms, and run the UCLIN
>through SMP/E.
>
What data sets will SMP/E create NEW?
If SMP/E creates the data sets, mu
>>I think the GP engines generally are priced at around twice the price of
>>the specialty engines.
>And add to the MSU cost of IBM and third party software
Not necessarily nowadays, and it's a very important point to understand.
The world has changed.
If you're on IBM VWLC (Variable Worklo
In a message dated 11/8/2007 9:47:00 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is IBM Main down?
This is a test message.
IBM-Main is not down as far as I can determine. It's downness for others is
undetermined.
Bill Fairchild
Franklin, TN
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Is IBM Main down?
This is a test message. If this had been a real message, then various of
the members could argue as to whether or not this message contained any
intelligence.
Alas, this is only a test message, similar to a sharp stick, with which
to poke the IBM Main server to see if it will re
I've been lurking this site for many years and, up to this point, had nothing
significant to contribute, however; the news of Bruce's passing really had an
impact. It is unusual to have an individual of Bruce's caliber so accessible,
and will to share his immense storage management knowledge s
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