Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Shane
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 15:18 +1100, Graeme Gibson wrote: Plenty - note the .au web address. Hopefully you yanks will take some notice. It should be noted that things are no better for independents here in the Antipodes. I'm sure all of us (world-wide) have mates in dire straights. This business

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Robert Justice
they need to up that salary by at least a factor of 3. they are out of their minds. - Original Message - From: Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:26 AM Subject: Are any of us this desperate?

Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS

2007-11-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, I need to transfer data from a different site. The other site has a VTS that is connected to a 3494 library. Our site does not have a VTS. Both sites uses 3590 tape drives. How can I transfer data using tapes from the other site (the one using VTS) to our site? The other site is

DFHSM can not allocate tape volume

2007-11-18 Thread Art
Does any one know if there is a command that could tell me which of the 5 LPARs/DFHSMS has a tape held, allocated, etc… I had this situation this weekend in which a job could not complete because it was telling me that the tape was allocated to another DFSMSHSM as shown below. STC10714

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 18, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Shane wrote: SNIP-- This business is going to hell ... Shane ... Shane, I did not notice it thanks for pointing it out. Is that salary even close down under? Ed

Re: Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS

2007-11-18 Thread Russell Witt
Gadi, You do not mention if you have a tape management system at both sites; and if so which one(s). Most tape management systems (CA-1, TLMS, rmm) have a tape-coping utility available and there is a third-party one called TAPECOPY that can be used. What you could do would be to copy all the tape

Re: Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS

2007-11-18 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Assuming the VTS hosting site does not have a nonvts tape drive, I wouldn't use Export. I tried import function of Ditto and it take hours. I hope the this is not a solution for a mass data transfer, because it will never end. FTP or a site sharing product like CSM (HostSystems.de) will do the job

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:34 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: Removing the ENQ is easy. Increasing the size of an existing data set for which the system has obtained ENQs is not supported, and you do so at your own risk. The ENQ's are in place so that you do NOT do this. Apparently the key word here

OT: Outsourcing has its disadvantages

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Gould
Bomb threat to IBM complex Khaleej Times Sat, 17 Nov 2007 7:49 PM PST BANGALORE — Police launched search operations at the IBM complex at Bannerghata following aphone call from an anonymous man who apparently threaten to plant a bomb in the building premises, police said yesterday. There

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Myers
It is true that you can increase the size of a dataset that is OPEN by another address space after removing its ENQ protection, as you have obviously demonstrated with your experiment. However, you need to understand that the internal constructs representing that OPENed data set to the

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Myers
Gil: See my previous reply. The DEB exists in the LSQA of the address space that has the data set OPEN. In order to do what you ask, it would be necessary for the system to find all OPEN instances of the newly extended data set and then adding the new extent to its particular DEB. How it

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:53:49 -0600, Mark S. House wrote: During SMP/E mantenance a system fils CSF.SCSFMOD0 had a d37. I removed the file from the PLEX and wanted to increase it's size. It appears the LLA and XCFAS on the on the other LPAR's in the system have enque on the name. How can I

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:28:00 -0500, Mike Myers wrote: Gil: See my previous reply. The DEB exists in the LSQA of the address space that has the data set OPEN. In order to do what you ask, it would be I believe I asked nothing (except insofar as I quoted the OP); I merely offered two empirical

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Myers
Paul: OK, it looks like I missed your ENQ shared condition. On looking back, I see you just allocated the file DISP=SHR, which would allow you to OPEN it in another job and then extend it. Of course, you realize that you violated the purpose of the exclusive ENQ by updating the data set in

Re: Increase File size on system file held in LLA and XCFAS

2007-11-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:15:42 -0500, Mike Myers wrote: It is true that you can increase the size of a dataset that is OPEN by another address space after removing its ENQ protection, as you have obviously demonstrated with your experiment. I removed no ENQ protection. I suspect that to end an

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:07:02 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Everything is prohibited unless it's compulsory. ... Unless you work for a bank. Then it's : Everything is prohibited even if it's compulsory. Pat O'Keefe

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
I have been that desperate and I would apply for this job. What they are offering is greater than zero. In 1991 I applied for and was accepted for such a position. The foreign aspect that others have quoted did not exist back then, it was simply a case of a large US insurance company offering

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Now it's 2007 and I'd do it all again, if need be. I would, too. As long as it's greater than unemployment insurance. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Everything is prohibited even if it's compulsory. Canada has a set of laws that are a catch-22. If you follow one, you break the other. 1. You must prove to the Federal Government that you are an equal opportunity employer, by having suitable numbers of minorities, handicapped, women, etc.

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:29:47 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious, what sorts of things can a Rexx program can do that doesn't interact with TSO or ISPF (or...)? ... The key is in that (or...). It may not have TSO or ISPF, but it has some or that provides a functioning

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Conmackie, Mike
snip And of course there are REXX interpreters that run in non-MVS environments with their own or (Take a look at Regina, for instance.) I've heard that even VM has REXX. :-) /snip Perhaps I missed the sarcasm but IIRC REXX was born in the VM environment as an improvement over EXEC2.

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Conmackie, Mike wrote: Perhaps I missed the sarcasm but IIRC REXX was born in the VM environment as an improvement over EXEC2. Believe me. Pat knew that. That's why he included the smiley. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I guess I would take a job like this in Milwaukee, but I couldn't move to New Jersey (I assume thats where the job was) and make it work. I'd also just keep looking. Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 - Original Message - From: Anthony Saul

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Rexx didn't resurface under MVS until TSO/E. Later than that. TSO/E came out with MVS/XA. REXX came (back?) with MVS/ESA 3.1.0e (circa 1989). I remember that for two reasons: 1. I was reading Colishaw's REXX book while my ex was getting prepped for a Caesarean for my first son. 2. I had just

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 18, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Rexx didn't resurface under MVS until TSO/E. Later than that. TSO/E came out with MVS/XA. REXX came (back?) with MVS/ESA 3.1.0e (circa 1989). I remember that for two reasons: 1. I was reading Colishaw's REXX book while my ex was getting

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:51:36 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rexx didn't resurface under MVS until TSO/E. Later than that. TSO/E came out with MVS/XA. REXX came (back?) with MVS/ESA 3.1.0e (circa 1989). I remember that for two reasons: 1. I was reading Colishaw's REXX book while my

Re: Running REXX program in a batch job

2007-11-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: I believe Cowlishaw's book reports that Rexx was developed in the VM and MVS environments concurrently. It flourished in the former and

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-18 Thread Timothy Sipples
Michael Stack writes: Mark, the statement I quoted, With the addition, ISU becomes the only public university in the state to offer its technology students both an undergraduate program in enterprise computing and hands-on access to such an IBM mainframe said nothing about z/Architecture. But

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: Last year, our company performed a salary survey in our market near Cleveland. When the results came back, the salary ranges were drastically altered downward by about 15K for systems programmers. Of course all of us balked at the idea that

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-18 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:39:39 -0800 Ray Mullins said: Frankly, I'd like to see IBM do this type of donation/assistance program at the 2-year community college level. Not to knock 4-year schools, but the type of student in a 2-year school is interested in getting a skill quickly, and employers like

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Graeme Gibson
Yeah, this post got a bit longer than I'd planned.. answering three posts here. (one correction: in my previous post I said HB1 when I meant H-1B) Shane wrote.. It should be noted that things are no better for independents here in the Antipodes. I'm sure all of us (world-wide) have mates in

OT IBM Introduced the PC in 1981

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Gould
Nice article in the Register Ed http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/17/tob_ibm_personal_computer/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Graeme Gibson wrote: Yeah, this post got a bit longer than I'd planned.. answering three posts here. (one correction: in my previous post I said HB1 when I meant H-1B) Shane wrote.. It should be noted that things are no better for independents here in the

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread Graeme Gibson
Correction: ..There are some 100,000 foreign workers in Australia under our 457 Visa system,.. (not 300,000 as I originally said) Regards to all, Graeme. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS

2007-11-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi Russell, Both sites use CA-1 as the TMS. Both have CA-COPYCAT installed. Our site does not have DITTO licensed. Gadi -Original Message- From: Russell Witt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:53 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Cc: גדי בן אבי Subject:

Re: Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS

2007-11-18 Thread Russell Witt
Gadi, In that case, simply use CA-1/Copycat to copy (and stack) as many virtual-volumes on the sending site as you need to transfer to a physical tape (the big assumption is that there is at least 1 tape drive that is native attached) and then on the receiving site you can use something as simple

Re: OT: Outsourcing has its disadvantages

2007-11-18 Thread Timothy Sipples
For what it's worth, I think this IBM-MAIN subject line choice is a bad one. First, the word disadvantages: sadly, such incidents are not unique to India. Unfortunately in a global comparison of crime rates the U.S., as an example, might not rank well. Second, the word outsourcing: a huge part

Re: Are any of us this desperate?

2007-11-18 Thread R.S.
Graeme Gibson wrote: [...] How true that is. My main point was that advertising such as the example quoted by the OP is just part of the legal procedural requirement that an employer in the US must go through in order to qualify for the H-1B visa that then allows them to bring in an o/seas