Re: Subject: FMID descriptions

2009-05-31 Thread Linda Mooney
Jim, Share with me too, please! Thanks, Linda Mooney - Original Message - From: "Jim Holloway" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 6:10:25 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Subject: FMID descriptions Bob,         My shop does annual server

Re: VSE & RPG question

2009-05-31 Thread Timothy Sipples
VSE-L might be a very good place to ask. Also, if you're not familiar with the organization already, WAVV's homepage is here: http://www.wavv.org - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.

IBM speaks up on "DB2" issue

2009-05-31 Thread Ed Gould
IBM clears name in GSIS system crash By Karen Flores, abs-cbnNEWS.com | 05/31/2009 1:26 PM Officials of IBM Philippines finally broke their silence regarding their alleged liability in the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) system crash. In an exclusive meeting with ABS-CBN News on Frid

Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions)

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:25:25 +0200, R.S. wrote: >My $0.02 regarding HFS files and Internet download and SMP/E. >When you install CBPDO product downloaded from Internet you need rougly >4x times space than the product occupies! >1. HFS for downloads >2. HFS for unpack >3. Datasets for "source" (fak

Re: FMID descriptions

2009-05-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 31 May 2009 07:49:12 -0700, Howard Rifkind wrote: >Would it be wonderful if IBM could just figure out how to make the FMID's >really directly relate the the software product name... > Particularly, why not allow FMIDs to be much longer than 7 characters (say about 50 characters) so a mean

Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions)

2009-05-31 Thread R.S.
Chris Craddock pisze: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:51 AM, John McKown wrote: A good idea. However, we only have 3390-3 volumes. And, as I said in another post, if I have a large amount of "unused" space in a SMS pool, then management becomes unglued. Of course, I could just leave the entire space

Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions)

2009-05-31 Thread R.S.
My $0.02 regarding HFS files and Internet download and SMP/E. When you install CBPDO product downloaded from Internet you need rougly 4x times space than the product occupies! 1. HFS for downloads 2. HFS for unpack 3. Datasets for "source" (fake tape) 4. Datasets for relfiles. -- Radoslaw Skoru

Re: FMID descriptions

2009-05-31 Thread Howard Rifkind
Would it be wonderful if IBM could just figure out how to make the FMID's really directly relate the the software product name... --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Richards, Robert B. wrote: > From: Richards, Robert B. > Subject: Re: FMID descriptions > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: Saturday, May 30, 20

Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions)

2009-05-31 Thread Howard Rifkind
I’ve been following this post and regarding 3390 mod 3’s, the bank I was working for has an EMC whatever box and I know it has a bunch of storage. Your can divide this storage up in any format you like 3’s 24’s, what not. Why the operate with mod 3’s is beyond me it cause more problems then it

Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions)

2009-05-31 Thread Bob Shannon
>Because it would save a lot of money!!! And that is what gets "points" now >>where I work. It's an unfortunate fact that IS has gone from being the savior to being overhead. A lot of bad decisions are made in order to reduce cost. The old adage "pay me now or pay me (more) later" often prevail