Thank you for speaking everyone's words.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.cawrote:
On 28 Sep 2009 13:47:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
28 September 2009
This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting
on Friday,
Howard Rifkind wrote:
If such training is taking place it most likely is in shops giving training to
people who already work for them.
Did you read the article?
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Howard Rifkind wrote:
Everything being said; where are the new mainframe installations?
http://searchcio.techtarget.com.au/articles/35398-Suncorp-Bank-of-New-Zealand-and-Allianz-dump-Unix-Windows-for-Linux-on-the-mainframe
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I would assume from your question that you are trying to improve the
performance of your VSAM batch applications. If you are then you should
compare the following products as well.
Peformance Solution - EMC
Veloci-Raptor - Dino Software
All of the above products provide the same facilities as
Sorry for the plug, but...
We have a low cost solution at Syzygy, www.syzygyinc.net, see SyzAUTO and
SyzCMDZ. While they are not free (IBMMAIN participants receive a big
discount on the already low cost), they are VERY inexpensive and provide
most, if not all of the features of the much higher
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wrote:
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CBT tape?
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Edward Jaffe wrote:
Howard Rifkind wrote:
Everything being said; where are the new mainframe installations?
http://searchcio.techtarget.com.au/articles/35398-Suncorp-Bank-of-New-Zealand-and-Allianz-dump-Unix-Windows-for-Linux-on-the-mainframe
Fair enough. Let's rephrase the question:
CC said :
however some of the giant brains in some customer sites will still wail and
gnash their teeth at you.
It is astonishing how often this happens - as if asking for a started task is
somehow akin to demanding the first-born child.
Rob Scott
Developer
Rocket Software
275 Grove
however some of the giant brains in some customer sites will still wail and
gnash their teeth at you.
It is astonishing how often this happens - as if asking for a started task is
somehow akin to demanding the first-born child.
Chris may have refered to the fact that this is an address space
Just to clarify, Veloci-Raptor does have dynamic buffering. For example, if
a file is placed into LSR, but changes I/O patterns to be more sequential,
then the buffering technique implemented is switched dynamically to NSR
processing.
Larry Crilley
Dino-Software Corporation
800.480.DINO
Not directly about the mainframe, but our DASD is usually RAID on the back end.
Interesting article on how the increase in the size of individual drives in a
RAID array are actually making it less reliable. This is due to the fact that
the amount of I/O done to rebuild an array can cause
That's Linux on z HARDWARE which is about as useful to a z/OS sysprog or
COBOL coder as a mp3 player running Linux. I guess everyone needs to learn
Linux and switch.
Mohammad
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:18:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
Howard Rifkind wrote:
Everything
Barbara,
Sounds like you have some battle scars there :-)
Back in the day when I was a sysprog, we used to define catch-alls in both RACF
and WLM definitions so that when we installed new software that required STCs
we used to deliberately make them drop thru unless the install doc was
On 29 Sep 2009 06:23:05 -0700, mkkha...@hotmail.com (Mohammad Khan)
wrote:
That's Linux on z HARDWARE which is about as useful to a z/OS sysprog or
COBOL coder as a mp3 player running Linux. I guess everyone needs to learn
Linux and switch.
Mohammad
I expect so. I don't see anything anywhere
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:44:53 -0500 Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote:
:however some of the giant brains in some customer sites will still wail and
:gnash their teeth at you.
: It is astonishing how often this happens - as if asking for a started task
is
: somehow akin to demanding the
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On 29 Sep 2009 06:41:09 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
I already am familar with Linux. It is my main OS at home (I have a Mac as
well).
I'm curious - do you use BASH shell features of your Unix based Mac
such as scripts?Or do you use GUI for your Linux machine?
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... and placed the STC in STCLO.
You don't need an STCLO. There is SYSOTHER.
I've always made my STC default SYSOTHER.
And, once in a while, I'd pull data from MICS (or MXG) for all tasks in
SYSOTHER and send the list to the appropriate manager, allowing them to do what
most of them don't
I second the suggestion for IAM. It is a great product that will
significantly improve your performance over VSAM.
Joel Wolpert
Performance and Capacity Planning consultant
WEBSITE: www.perfconsultant.com
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From: Robert Matthews robert.matthe...@bigpond.com
I was speaking from direct personal experience (of course). This all falls
into the realm of providing deep system level infrastructure support and
without bragging at all, there are only a handful of people out there who
can do it and get it right most of the time. Hence the sysprog community's
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:17:15 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
Not directly about the mainframe, but our DASD is usually RAID on
the back end.
I found it very amusing that his chart included the note, RAID-6 was not
used until around 2006 or so
We had an RVA at Wayne State in 1997. It used
And what about the ICEBERG from STK when it was STK.
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Behalf Of Tom Marchant
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: RAID's Days May Be Numbered -
Has been an interesting discussion. What I originally wanted to do was to
establish a PC routine once, the 1st time my started task came up after an IPL.
The same routine could be used by multiple copies of the started task, if the
user decided they wanted to or needed to operate with more
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Mohammad Khan mkkha...@hotmail.com wrote:
That's Linux on z HARDWARE which is about as useful to a z/OS sysprog or
COBOL coder as a mp3 player running Linux. I guess everyone needs to learn
Linux and switch.
Well, that's the big problem for a lot of the folks
Hi
If someone has got this:
After an IPL we got :
DXR133I MRLM001 TIMEOUT DURING GLOBAL INITIALIZATION WAITING FOR NOEVENT
and unable to start DB2 MQM
Have opened a PMR, but maybe someone has seen this.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:26 AM
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Subject: Ownership of PC routines---what I will do
Has been an interesting discussion. What I originally wanted
Dave said :
So, I will have each started task establish at initialization and tear down at
termination the same routine. Will wind up with two or more copies of the same
code, but will satisfy the requirements of the operating system, and keep
things 'according to hoyle'.
The big advantage
Hi Miklos - Have you looked up the message and the recommended response?
System Programmer Response: Investigate what is delaying initialization
based on the value for nnn. If this is the name of a peer irlm, then
that member is not sending the required XCF messages to the new member
Did you change the size of the IRLM lock structure? This is going back a
ways but I recall having a problem when the IRLM lock structure was too
large, it caused a loop when calculating the number of entries.
Have a nice day,
Dave Betten
DFSORT Development, Performance Lead
IBM Corporation
Hi
David Betten wrote:
Did you change the size of the IRLM lock structure? This is going back a
ways but I recall having a problem when the IRLM lock structure was too
large, it caused a loop when calculating the number of entries.
As far as I know, the structure size has not changed,
Chris Craddock wrote
I was speaking from direct personal experience (of course). This all falls
into the realm of providing deep system level infrastructure support and
without bragging at all, there are only a handful of people out there who can
do it and get it right most of the time.
What
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of P S
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:38 AM
Well, that's the big problem for a lot of the folks on this list --
they learned MVS 30 years ago and haven't learned anything since.
That's why they can't find jobs, and why the answer to a
MVS has hardly stood still. If there are really those who haven't learned
anything in 30 years, how are they surviving in a world of WLM, SMS, the
logger, etc. etc.?
D*mn good points!
I was going to respond, but I couldn't find a polite way.
There are many good (and progressive) changes in
I feel the only constant thing about change is change. Everything is changing,
especially in the IT arena. When the IT z/OS consulting market dried up I
worked with Microsoft and Linux. You have to adapt to survive in this world.
Flexiability is the key, I feel. I like many other guys and gals
On 29 Sep 2009 11:03:53 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
MVS has hardly stood still. If there are really those who haven't learned
anything in 30 years, how are they surviving in a world of WLM, SMS, the
logger, etc. etc.?
D*mn good points!
I was going to respond, but I
We installed a new z10-BC with a zIIP on Sunday (IBM 2098-Q05). It is
working out well and my management is pleased. We normally run an MSU
high 4HRA of 110 MSUs during a regular work day. Yesterday our high was
only 86 MSUs. Of course this was due both to the zIIP and the
improvement in the
I am working on a fix to a JES Exit 54 and am curious what order the
JECL statements are processed by the exit. It seems that the /*XEQ and
/*ROUTE XEQ statements are first but I am curious if anyone knows the
actual order they are processed. It does not appear to be in the
sequence they are
We have been running on zos1.9 for 6 weeks with no issues until 2 weekends ago.
When operations performed the weekly IPL, tasks (vendor and system sub tasks)
started abending with get main errors. The system became unresponsive and we
were forced to re-ipl, with the second ipl I told ops to use
We saw a similar R4A MSU reduction without any new specialty engines.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:41 PM
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:53:53 -0400, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote:
We have been running on zos1.9 for 6 weeks with no issues until 2 weekends
ago. When operations performed the weekly IPL, tasks (vendor and system sub
tasks) started abending with get main errors. The system became unresponsive
This doesn't help with the vendors :) But I put CLPA in IEASYS00 more
than a decade ago.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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Sent:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, esst...@juno.com esst...@juno.com wrote:
Chris Craddock wrote
I was speaking from direct personal experience (of course). This all
falls into the realm of providing deep system level infrastructure support
and without bragging at all, there are only a
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
This doesn't help with the vendors :) But I put CLPA in IEASYS00
more
than a decade ago.
We also IPL with CLPA and Load Clear every time. Been doing it that way
for at least the 12 years I've been
CLPA has nothing to do with the CLEAR in the LOAD CLEAR
hardware function if that was what you were trying to say.
Mark
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Matt,
Get a SADUMP on the next occurrence.
There use to be an issue with HSA storage but I though that IBM change
that to CLEAR on a normal IPL.
If it is consistently happening on IPL I would check HSA allocations.
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:27:49 -0400, Clark, Kevin kevin.cl...@bcbsde.com wrote:
Matt,
Get a SADUMP on the next occurrence.
Wouldn't hurt, but shouldn't be required if the system is functioning. At
worst, SLIPs could be set up in IEASLPxx to capture SVC dumps.
There use to be an issue with HSA
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote:
MVS has hardly stood still. If there are really those who
haven't learned anything in 30 years, how are they surviving
in a world of WLM, SMS, the logger, etc. etc.?
Sorry, those are incremental changes. The last
--snip---
MVS has hardly stood still. If there are really those who haven't
learned anything in 30 years, how are they surviving in a world of WLM,
SMS, the logger, etc. etc.?
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Behalf Of Chris Craddock
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Ownership of PC routines
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, esst...@juno.com
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:54:25 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com
wrote:
There use to be an issue with HSA storage but I though that IBM change
that to CLEAR on a normal IPL.
About 10 years ago. Had to do with parallel sysplex data sharing and
some information stored in HSA that wasn't
You're right, I misread the OP. We don't routinely use the LOAD CLEAR.
I wonder if we should and if it would buy us anything?
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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snip-
MVS has hardly stood still. If there are really those who haven't learned anything in 30 years, how are they surviving in a world of WLM, SMS, the logger, etc. etc.?
D*mn good points!
I was going to respond, but I
snip---
We installed a new z10-BC with a zIIP on Sunday (IBM 2098-Q05). It is
working out well and my management is pleased. We normally run an MSU
high 4HRA of 110 MSUs during a regular work day. Yesterday our high was
Are you saying the ziip might not be as fast as the regular processor on
the z10? I'm just asking because I don't know.
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Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:21 PM
To:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:02:08 -0700, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
Howard Rifkind wrote:
If such training is taking place it most likely is in shops giving training
to
people who already work for them.
Did you read the article?
I did, and I love the passage: Grim said
No, I'm saying that with the combination of the change in the MSU to
MIPS ratio between the z9 and the z10, and the ability to now run some
of our workload (DRDA stuff) on the zIIP, it appears we've lowered our
total MSU 4HRA considerably. Since we are on sub-capacity pricing that
results in a
I agree, that is a bottom line. However, lower the MSU 4HRA, and
thereby saving money in software costs every month, also puts a smile on
their face.
Tom Kelman
Enterprise Capacity Planner
Commerce Bank of Kansas City
(816) 760-7632
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Arthur Gutowski wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:02:08 -0700, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
Howard Rifkind wrote:
If such training is taking place it most likely is in shops giving training to
people who already work for them.
Did you read the article?
I did, and I love
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote:
I did, and I love the passage: Grim said Bank of America saw a growing
decline in the number of new college graduates with any mainframe training.
Great catch, Art. Only thing worse would have been increasing
decline! (I
Oy. Google growing decline: 24K hits; increasing decline: 33K
hits. I guess this illustrates the increasing decline in folks'
ability to write.
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Just curious, what would you say to communicate that thought?
Chris Blaicher
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P S
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:02:54 -0500, Blaicher, Chris wrote:
Just curious, what would you say to communicate that thought?
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P S
Oy. Google growing decline: 24K hits; increasing decline: 33K
What about a decline that is reaching its asymptotical limit?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:55 PM, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote:
Oy. Google growing decline: 24K hits; increasing decline: 33K
hits. I guess this illustrates the increasing decline in folks'
ability to write.
Arthur Gutowski wrote:
... until this
so-called recovery actually happens, I don't see much of either sort of training
happening here.
In his Sep 20 CNN interview, President Obama said that U.S. employers
have eliminated almost 7 million jobs since the recession started and
that you need
I think increasing rate of decline might work also.
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com 9/29/2009 5:10 PM
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:02:54 -0500, Blaicher, Chris wrote:
Just curious, what would you say to communicate that thought?
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:39:34 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote:
I think increasing rate of decline might work also.
Cumbersomer and more cumbersomer.
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Blaicher, Chris chris_blaic...@bmc.com wrote:
Just curious, what would you say to communicate that thought?
Decline. Either that, or the writer needs to be clear about what
(s)he means: is the raw number delta increasing year-over-year? Is the
percentage delta
Two factors here. First, the zIIP was added to the environment and a portion
of the DRDA work moved from the general purpose engines to the zIIP. Second
the technology changed from 2096 to 2098. Between those two machines there
is what IBM refers to as a technology dividend, roughly 9-10%. A
snip--
Are you saying the ziip might not be as fast as the regular processor on
the z10? I'm just asking because I don't know.
--unsnip
Nothing of the sort. I only
What you say is very true. However, assuming that the SLA's were already
being met on the old machine then you might not see a change in delivery or
response time, but a reduction in the peak 4HRA MSU usage will make
management very happy because they will see a reduction in the software
Which is the best IEFACTRT?
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Edward Jaffe asks:
Which is the best IEFACTRT?
I am dying to know what you meant exactly by that question.
But I'll offer my candidate (in case this is a contest):
IEFACTRT CSECT
IEFACTRT AMODE 31
IEFACTRT RMODE ANY
R1 EQU 1
R14 EQU 14
R15 EQU 15
SRR1,R1
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