Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-23 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > It was 16 ;-) > > At the time, IBM was shipping 2-way[1] MP systems. I don't know > whether the limit was still 16 by the time MVS/XA came out. I'd be > willing to be that both 64 and whatever number replaces it will be > lifted inte

Re: Getting "BIND/LINK" date out of load module members

2010-05-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Getting "BIND/LINK" date out of load module members In VSE I can do this: // EXEC LIBR LISTD SUBLIB=U

Re: Extracting BIND/Link-edit date from a program object or load module

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4bf72750.5010...@ync.net>, on 05/21/2010 at 07:37 PM, Rick Fochtman said: >IIRC, the lked IDENTIFY statement was close to, if not after, the >demise of OS/360. It was present in OS/360. I vaguely recall that it may have been added around Release 20. >IDENTIFY statements are used by ALL

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/21/2010 at 07:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >The clean way forward was devised by [I]SPF some time ago in the >SPFEDIT ENQ. No. >I believe it assures data integrity; It doesn't. >NFS server and FTP server (others?) >use the technique to cooperate with ISPF. K3wl. What if it isn'

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/21/2010 at 03:10 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >POSIX rename() has some properties remarkably suited to this purpose: And some not so suited. >o rename() is atomic. FSVO atomic. The old name does not go away immediately if someone else is using the file. That's often what you want, b

Re: Getting "BIND/LINK" date out of load module members

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4bf6d4bc.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com>, on 05/21/2010 at 06:44 PM, Frank Swarbrick said: >I am not interested in it being in the load module (or program >object), though that may be useful for things other than what I am >specifically concerned about. Then you have not accurately described

Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/21/2010 at 03:10 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: >So it was smart enough to know that it needed 3 digits for the end >part of the year, but then it concatenated the string '19' in front? No, it was dumb enough to ignore a standard that said that they year in a Posix timestamp was an *off

Re: IBM to announce new MF's this year

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/19/2010 at 10:50 AM, zMan said: >ISTR that both z/VM and z/OS had limits on the number of CPUs they >could address, though I thought it was 32, It was 16 ;-) At the time, IBM was shipping 2-way[1] MP systems. I don't know whether the limit was still 16 by the time MVS/XA came out.

Re: Getting "BIND/LINK" date out of load module members

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4bf7df8b.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com>, on 05/22/2010 at 01:42 PM, Frank Swarbrick said: >Anyway, as far as I know, these are the only two methods of placing a >member in a VSE library. Don't they apply only to a CIL? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position;

Re: Caution: Bad joke / pun?

2010-05-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1274405791.3591.20.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net>, on 05/20/2010 at 08:36 PM, John McKown said: >(ANSI --> antsy, just in case it is just too weird for some). I know, >if I have to explain it, it isn't really funny. And when it isn't true it also isn't funny. ANSI isn't ANSI and ISO-8859-1

Re: ZFS problems

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sun, 23 May 2010 08:51:15 -0500, Arthur Gutowski wrote: >On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:12:44 +1000, Shane Ginnane m...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > >>In the unlikely event a filesystem is unmounted uncleanly *AND* the >>subsequent mount is changed from R/W to R/O, the >>decision not to run the journal should

Re: DFHSM Doc on when it resets the "dataset changed flag(bit)"

2010-05-23 Thread Richards, Robert B.
>From the manual: Specifying Whether to Back Up Only Changed Data Sets - When DFSMShsm is first installed, you might have many data sets on your volumes with the data-set-changed indicator in the data set VTOC entry off (such as data sets for which the bit has been turned off by some other prog

Re: ZFS problems

2010-05-23 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:12:44 +1000, Shane Ginnane wrote: >In the unlikely event a filesystem is unmounted uncleanly *AND* the >subsequent mount is changed from R/W to R/O, the >decision not to run the journal should be the customers. Has anyone out there quantified the so-called performance ben