Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
Clark Morris asks: has Bull kept updating the ex-Honeywell/GE line for GCOS? Updating is too strong a word, but Bull still supports GCOS, yes. More information is available here: http://www.bull.com/servers/gcos8/index.html In the Japanese domestic market NEC still supports a close cousin

Chris Horder/CSI is out of the office.

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Horder
I will be out of the office starting 05/15/2010 and will not return until 05/24/2010. I am out of the office and will have limited access to emails or cell-phone calls during this time If you have an emergency, please call the Hot Line on 1-800-510-3004 or contact don.brat...@mainline.com for

CA.COM Server error?

2010-05-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Is anybody else having a problem with CA support this morning? Last week CA.com brought up the CA site now I get Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the

Re: CA.COM Server error?

2010-05-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Question answered off-list. - support.ca.com Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 7:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CA.COM Server error? Is anybody else having a problem with CA

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-17 Thread Kelman, Tom
Timothy, I saw your post talking about having an A01 warm standby with Z03 CBU. That's similar to what my management is thinking, but without the warm standby. We have EMC storage and it we do synchronous mirroring from our main site to our DR site. Since that is all done via the EMC control

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: Um ... the Y2K thingie was real. Without the efforts of a lot of the people on this list data processing as we know it WOULD have come to an end. Y2K remediation also contributed heavily to outsourcing uptik. Y2K remediation was competing for resources

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-17 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Mon, 17 May 2010 07:41:33 -0500, Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com wrote: I saw your post talking about having an A01 warm standby with Z03 CBU. Tom, Thats the setup we are using: z9BC A01 at an alternate site. FWIW, our most recent IPLs of z/OS 1.11 on that machine took

RSU Maint and adding ZIIP Feature

2010-05-17 Thread Dazzo, Matt
We are running z1.9 and I'm getting ready to pull RSU maint for the next maintenance cycle. There is also a possibility that we will upgrade our box from z890 to a z10BC with a ZIIP in the not too distant future. Is there any harm at this time in pulling and applying the PTF's for the ZIIP

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-17 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Tom, if you're running as a guest under z/vm, which some D/R vendors do, then you could cap it with a set share xxx absolute limithard. You didn't say if this was your box or a D/R Vendor box. If there's no z/VM, then LPAR weights is what you have to work with. I would definitely check out

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-17 Thread Roland Schiradin
Tom, z/OS contains a cblock IPST pointed by ECVTIPST. This cblock contains information about the IPL time for various steps. SHOWzOS display the data and there is also a IPCS command but can't remember the name. Roland Timothy, I saw your post talking about having an A01 warm standby

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-17 Thread Matan Cohen
i think the best way to accomplish that is to perfom the check of 30 minute in the rexx (in case you don't want it to go to sleep) if your rexx performing somthing in this 30 minutes you should add a check in it of the time like this: RC = TIME(R) SECS = 1800 /* 1800 second you want them to

Re: RSU Maint and adding ZIIP Feature

2010-05-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
Dazzo, Matt wrote: We are running z1.9 and I'm getting ready to pull RSU maint for the next maintenance cycle. There is also a possibility that we will upgrade our box from z890 to a z10BC with a ZIIP in the not too distant future. Is there any harm at this time in pulling and applying the

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 17 May 2010 17:57:55 +0300, Matan Cohen wrote: i think the best way to accomplish that is to perfom the check of 30 minute in the rexx (in case you don't want it to go to sleep) if your rexx performing somthing in this 30 minutes you should add a check in it of the time like this: RC =

ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread John Schafer
We are currently reviewing all of the ICF catalog definitions in our shop. All of our catalogs are ECS defined. Any best pratice or considerations with regard to the following catalog performance options beyond the defaults when these are not specified? STRNO BUFND BUFNI FREESPACE RECORDSIZE

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-17 Thread Nick Varley
Sleeping is a lot less hard on your processor, in my opinion...your code will spin an entire CPU won't it...? It will be checking as fast as the processor will let it what the elapsed time is since resetting the Rexx timer. I saw this done about 10 years ago when a company moved from an 8-way

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-17 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Matan, With regard to your post on this subject which included: SNIPPET RC = TIME(R) SECS = 1800 /* 1800 second you want them to pass */ DO FOREVER N = TIME(E)/*get the time in second which was pass */ IF N = SECS THEN LEAVE END /SNIPPET As Dustin Hoffman said in Hook, bad

UK Seminar on Software Hardware Pricing

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Wilson
Hi, Just wondering if anyone had to to any of the previous seminars? Was it worthwhile? Kind Regards, Mark Negotiating mainframe software and hardware contracts Arcati¹s annual seminar on mainframe pricing and contract negotiation takes place on 28th June 2010 at the Premier Inn Touchbase

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread David Andrews
considerations with regard to the following catalog performance options beyond the defaults Eileen McClintock has done a presentation at SHARE about catalog tuning. See if you can find it. She recommended (in 2007), among other things: - Don't use anything larger than 8K CI size;

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Porowski
There was a feature for AUTOTUNING but back in 2008 IBM recommended turning it off (OA20748). I'm not sure if the issues were ever resolved but OA25072 09/2009 turns it off and disables enabling it. F CATALOG,REPORT,CATSTATS should show what is currently in use. -Original Message- John

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-17 Thread Michel Castelein
On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:59:54 +0100, Nick Varley nick.var...@metron.co.uk wrote: (snip) Anyway, if you want a simple SLEEP program, I can mail you one (it's in Assembler and is free, with NO support offered under any circumstances) Note that z/OS includes a ready-to-use SLEEP program. A few

Re: Benchmarking the IPL

2010-05-17 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Mon, 17 May 2010 09:38:27 -0500, Roland Schiradin rol...@schiradin.de wrote: Tom, z/OS contains a cblock IPST pointed by ECVTIPST. This cblock contains information about the IPL time for various steps. SHOWzOS display the data and there is also a IPCS command but can't remember the name.

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:46:42 -0400, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: Eileen McClintock has done a presentation at SHARE about catalog tuning. See if you can find it. She recommended (in 2007), among other things: - Shared catalog volumes kill you. Don't have multiple

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:09 -0400, Mark Zelden wrote: I think you are referring to VVDS mode sharing. If you have the catalog in ECS mode, the above isn't true. As an aside, it's a little difficult to avoid sharing catalogs between systems these days. :-) My notes were from a

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Automation software and loops. Not quite on the topic, but I remember when some Brainiac implemented automated responses to IEF238D and IEF433D. We lost almost 25% of a 400E while Net/Master replied WAIT and then NOHOLD as fast as it could... Yes, waiting is far more efficient. A loop of this

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-17 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Charles, Right you are.  For my senior project (1979), I personally wrote some very non-Y2K compliant COBOL code.  It was a major enhancement to a payroll system for a city that was running  a Burroughs 1800 at the time.   They were so short on memory that everthing else had to be shut

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-17 Thread Anton Britz
Hi Linda, Yes, my point was, that it was EXAGGERATED using FEAR for profit purposes. There was no need to upgrade all the Mainframes/Desktops/Servers/Operating systems etc. The place I worked at, spent 16 Million Dollars, on upgrading all the PC's in the Organization and each PC received a

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-17 Thread Charles Mills
How do you know it was EXAGGERATED using FEAR for profit purposes? Exaggerated by whom? Perhaps the executives at your former employer were risk-adverse, or saw senior management's attention to Y2K as a chance to implement worthwhile equipment upgrades. Home PCs are different from corporate