On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:39:45 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>On 5/2/2012 7:33 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
>> So how do you protect code, whatever language you have written in , in
>> business ?
>
>You must treat it as trade secret information.
>
Not quite the point. Suppose someone wanted to create a prod
Charles,
Functionality of the language ? Not being dense, but you functionally what the
programming language does in the app or functionally what it does, I.e.; read
files ,write files, etc..
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
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On May 3, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Charles Mills
On 5/2/2012 7:33 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
So how do you protect code, whatever language you have written in , in business
?
You must treat it as trade secret information.
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On 5/2/2012 7:27 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
IBM should explain what it expects to accomplish during this--on the
face of it--absurdly long interval.
Absurd indeed! When was the last time one of IBM's mainframe customers enjoyed a
54-hour maintenance/upgrade outage window? I have never seen anythi
>Are there some other pieces of data i should be examin-
>ing to see whether the current task has subspaces?
Tasks do not have spaces. Address spaces have subspaces.
I do not see a Programming Interface for determining whether or not
an address space has subspaces.
Jim Mulder z/OS Syste
Aha! Muchas gracias!
Charles
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My link was ba
Right.
If you wrote a COBOL compiler, you could protect your compiler code under
copyright, you could protect your manual, you could protect the layout of
your interactive debugger screens.
But you can't protect the functionality of the language. I can write my own
COBOL compiler, manual, and int
This is not the code. This is the language specification. Someone
could write their own version of your product. Then users could buy
their application instead of yours and run their programs.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
> All,
>
> So how do you protect code, whatever lan
APAR OA34311 enhances z/OS V1R12 to allow a dispatchable unit
(maybe only task?) running in subspace mode to access virtual
storage above the 2GB bar.
This enhancement was not provided for z/OS V1R11.
Our software needs to run on z/OS V1R11, and it sometimes
needs to run in subspace mode.
We wou
My link was bad! Seems I didn't quite understand how to copy a link in
Infocenter!
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r4/topic/com.ibm.zos.r9.cbcpx01/cbcpg180781.htm#wq1935
On 3/05/2012 1:09 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Full samples of deblocking BPAM directory blocks with code? Which
All,
So how do you protect code, whatever language you have written in , in business
?
Without copyright, doesn't it imply , people can take you source and change it
and resell it ...if the gave your source , right ?
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
www.identityforge.com
On May 2, 2012, a
IBM should explain what it expects to accomplish during this--on the
face of it--absurdly long interval.
If IBMLink's deplorable availability will be very much improved after
it, this outage may well be justifiable. If not, not.
In general, it is time for more transparency about these issues; pr
On 2 May 2012 17:40:01 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>"Makes you feel good about all that work we've been doing with IBM,
>doesn't it?"
>
>You betcha. I think what aggravates me the most is that can still say it's up
>24x7, because 'scheduled maintenance windows' don't count.
Maybe
"Makes you feel good about all that work we've been doing with IBM,
doesn't it?"
You betcha. I think what aggravates me the most is that can still say it's up
24x7, because 'scheduled maintenance windows' don't count.
MA
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>
> On 5/2/2012 3:35 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
> > With the new ERP sy
On 5/2/2012 3:35 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
With the new ERP system they are moving us to, scheduled outages of this length
are routine. :( but it's better than the working legacy :)
Double standard.
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On 5/2/2012 2:34 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 5/2/2012 11:24 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Wow. That's...a lot of downtime. :( Do you know if that includes SR?
No idea. The news article is very brief. (See below.)
https://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/news/NewsServlet.wss?referrer=newsMain&command=Get&new
On 5/2/2012 2:25 PM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Wow. That's...a lot of downtime. :( Do you know if that includes SR?
Thanks,
MA
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> I entered quiesce on z/OS under VM by mistake.
> How do I get the Virtual Machine going again?
Try
#cp sys restart
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On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
I've complained to our IBM account team repeatedly that having IBMLink have
down time during the weekend when we have our changes scheduled is a big
exposure. I'd love to see them move out of the window most customers have their
change windows - ma
In all the time I've been doing this, I would never have dared ask for outages
of this magnitude. The worst I ever was part of was a couple 12-14 hour
unexpected weekend days when we didn't have fall back ready. I think that was
also the time after VM and before we did a sandbox LPAR, so we did
On 2 May 2012 14:05:30 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>I've complained to our IBM account team repeatedly that having IBMLink have
>down time during the weekend when we have our changes scheduled is a big
>exposure. I'd love to see them move out of the window most customers have
>th
I entered quiesce on z/OS under VM by mistake. How do I get the Virtual
Machine going again?
I tried "B" but did not work. I tried RESTART but it asked for a parm.
Help
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I've complained to our IBM account team repeatedly that having IBMLink have
down time during the weekend when we have our changes scheduled is a big
exposure. I'd love to see them move out of the window most customers have their
change windows - maybe other accounts could also raise the issue to
Hi, Jack.
I so sorry, I was wrong . . . I compiled another EXIT . . I thought It was
EXIT32
Excuse me.
Thanks.
Regards.
Alvaro.
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On 5/2/2012 11:24 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Wow. That's...a lot of downtime. :( Do you know if that includes SR?
No idea. The news article is very brief. (See below.)
https://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/news/NewsServlet.wss?referrer=newsMain&command=Get&news_item_id=5446&lc=en&cc=US
I agree. It is
Wow. That's...a lot of downtime. :( Do you know if that includes SR?
Thanks,
MA
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This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage for a system
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Thanks. I followed the wrong links, I guess.
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> Can one replicate the 'look and feel' without copyright issues in the EU
now?
I might add that "look and feel" might be subject to copyright protection.
Copyright, again, protects *expression.*
If I wrote a z/OS system monitor that cleverly displayed the status of
started tasks as bouncing ball
I recall (no pun intended) in an HSM class that grouping recalls by tape
volser was the default action of HSM at the 1.11 version if not prior.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
> I have not seen a good answer on this, so I thought I would throw this out.
>
> We have on occa
http://plugable.com/products/
The two products are already in production. This kickstarter project
is to do 1 large order for a lower unit cost.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:05 AM, McKown, John
wrote:
> Doesn't really say __how__ it works internally. The author simply says that,
> on Fedora 17, it
On Wed, 2 May 2012 09:35:14 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>
>We have on occasion users submit 1000's of recalls at one time. They use a
>variety of processes from TSO Batch HRECALL to a REXX process. Of course this
>can impact other users who are looking to just get one or two datasets back.
>
Lots of confusion here.
1. US and EU are of course different. Laws and precedents don't matter much
from one to the other.
2. Copyright in the US has never protected programming language
specifications, etc. Google Lotus v. Borland, the seminal case, which went
all the way to SCOTUS.
3. Copyrigh
Full samples of deblocking BPAM directory blocks with code? Which program?
I don't see any examples in the P/G you linked to either. What am I missing?
Charles
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Lizette,
You may want to refer to 1.4.3 Processing Priority of Recalls and Deletions in
the HSM Stor. Admin.
Apparently recalls are not subject to FIFO.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 12:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua
This is what I was saying (for US law) relative to Oracle's claim that a
copyright on the Java specification document protected the functioning of
the language described therein.
Charles
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Of Mark
I'm not a lawyer and don't pretend to understand the ramifications, but this
sounds huge.
"The result is that the court finds that ideas and principles which underlie
any element of a computer program are not protected by copyright under that
directive, only the expression of those ideas and p
I have IRXEXCOM returning a -2 ("Processing was not successful. Insufficient
storage was available for a requested SET. Processing was terminated. Some
of the request blocks (SHVBLOCKs) may not have been processed and their
SHVRET bytes will be unchanged.") at a customer site where I have limited
d
When I have done lots of recalls, when a tape is mounted it processes
all other pending requests on the same tape before it dismounts the
tape.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Lizette Koehler
wrote:
> For example, if I submit 100 recalls that will actually need 40 different
> migration tapes.
You could alter the priority of the recalls of the user submitting 1000s of
recalls, see ALTERPRI in the HSM Admin Ref.
Ex. TSO HSEND ALTERPRI USERID(USERA) LOW
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To: IBM-MAIN@b
HSM's CRQ(Common Recall Queue) groups recalls by tape and gives the ability to
assign priority to recalls.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 12:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Su
Bob, please post this information on the Hercules-390 Yahoo group. (You can
subscribe to the list without joining Yahoo; contact me offlist if you need
more info.) There is also a specific Hercules-OS360 group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-os360/.
The reference cards can be scanned
John,
I didn't think anyone remembered MP/M-80, let alone what it did!
Back in the 80's, I put together MP/M-80 machines and wrote application
software for them. We benchmarked our 7-8 user systems and ran better than any
DEC multi user system.
We were even the first Iomega customer and design
I have not seen a good answer on this, so I thought I would throw this out.
We have on occasion users submit 1000's of recalls at one time. They use a
variety of processes from TSO Batch HRECALL to a REXX process. Of course this
can impact other users who are looking to just get one or two dat
I looked at member HASX32A in my z/OS 1.10 library,
and there are only has 2 references to JCLJCLAS:
CLI JCTJCLAS,C'C' JOB CLASS C... 0308
CLI JCTJCLAS,C'D' JOB CLASS D... 0310
I suspect that someone applied a local modification
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:00:37 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=plugable_multiseat_kick&num=1
> >
> >This is a USB device which can plug into a normal PC running Linux
> >(Fedora 17 is mentioned). You the
Hi,
I would be interested in having an off-line discussion with customers
who have responsibility for AIX support. I am especially interested in
your experiences using phone support versus electronic support and if
you have paid to have an IBM account advocate. Not in my portfolio but
I now
Watch for possible URL truncation as it gets wrapped
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226783/Programming_languages_can_t_have_copyright_protection_EU_court_rules
Thanks,
Mark Regan
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Yes. We've asked them for any FAQ documentation that they might have for setup
activities.
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To: I
Mark,
Are you going to a hosting DR recovery site , I.e.; Sungard ..
If so, they also usually are pretty good to help out..
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
www.identityforge.com
On May 2, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote:
> We don't, yet. It's only used for XCF sysplex partitioning ac
On Wed, 2 May 2012 15:26:54 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
>"Tom Marchant" wrote in message
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>>WLM manages
>>the service class, not individual jobs. For example, when WLM changes
>>the dispatching priority of a service class,
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=plugable_multiseat_kick&num=1
>
> This is a USB device which can plug into a normal PC running Linux
> (Fedora 17 is mentioned). You then connect a DisplayLink monitor, USB
> keyboard and mouse
We don't, yet. It's only used for XCF sysplex partitioning activities. I'll
keep it in mind, but I'm not going to worry about it for a DR test.
Mark Jacobs
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DiPillo [gdipi...@ax
Hi
Thank you for the reply.
We have HJE7770 , but for some reason several target zones, and the
FMID is not in the traget zone, I tought to be the active one.
I think it was a missunderstanding between me and the guy from the IBM
who installed z/OS 1.12.
After applying in the correct zone
>I'm not saying you, Ed or anyone else shouldn't install Java using
>SMP/E. I'm just saying I personally don't see a benefit.
We support all of the supported Java versions and addressing modes. We just
download the code from IBM and don't bother installing with SMPE. For
everything else I'm a
I did not see this mentioned, but, if you use BCPII, it will not be available
in your Guest:
HWI010I BCPII DOES NOT OPERATE ON A VM GUEST. BCPII INITIALIZATION
IS HALTED.
If you use BCPII for critical processes you may need a rethink.
>
On Tue, 1 May 2012 21:35:52 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg
wrote:
>At 16:30 -0500 on 05/01/2012, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: Java PTF
>Packaging Error Deletes the Java SDK With RC=0:
>
>>It's just extra work and space for managing a PTF that replaces the
>>entire product / unix file system contents
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> On Tue, 1 May 2012 22:06:55 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
>
> >In our case, production batch varies from seconds to hours
>
> That was my case too. It was several years ago that I was in a
Thanks for confirming my own research on the subject.
Regards,
Mark Jacobs
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>
> Hi
>
> I have received the UA59435 JES2 toleration PTF , but for the APPLY check
I got
> GIM37903E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD UA59435 BECAUSE IT HAS NO
> APPLICABLE ++VER MCS.
> Maybe somebody has seen this ?
>
Typically this means that version of the software (JES2
Hi
On 02.05.2012 14:59, Walter Marguccio wrote:
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From: Miklos Szigetvari
O.k now, but how can I copy an FMID from one target to another ?
Miklos,
what do you want to accomplish, exactly ? Why would you want to copy
an FMID from one target zone to another ?
I thi
Mark,
Here's my doc on the subject...
Mary Anne
Differences b/w running native LPAR and running as a z/VM guest
In a single system:
The only issue Im aware of is some strangeness with your performance monitors.
In a SYSPLEX:
--A new CFRM policy is required, specifying SIMDEV for the cou
Doesn't really say __how__ it works internally. The author simply says that, on
Fedora 17, it is truly "plug and play". He plugged it into a PC running Fedora
and he immediately saw a GDM login screen. He said performance was generally
good, except for some HD video from YouTube.
This is a "Ki
> - Original Message -
> From: Miklos Szigetvari
> O.k now, but how can I copy an FMID from one target to another ?
Miklos,
what do you want to accomplish, exactly ? Why would you want to copy
an FMID from one target zone to another ?
Walter Marguccio
z/OS Systems Programmer
BELENUS
On Tue, 1 May 2012 22:06:55 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
>In our case, production batch varies from seconds to hours
That was my case too. It was several years ago that I was in a
shop where I had primary responsibility for performance, but what
I found there is that:
During the day, m
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:00:37 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=plugable_multiseat_kick&num=1
>
>This is a USB device which can plug into a normal PC running Linux (Fedora 17
>is mentioned). You then connect a DisplayLink monitor, USB keyboard and mouse
On 2/05/2012 6:01 PM, Uwe Oswald wrote:
Hi Andrew,
they are old fashioned since most customers don't need them. This is nothing
you will find in a book clearly stated but that's my truth :-). Let me try to
explain why. Most customers (I do WLM optimization - and cost
reduction-projects in Ger
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=plugable_multiseat_kick&num=1
This is a USB device which can plug into a normal PC running Linux (Fedora 17
is mentioned). You then connect a DisplayLink monitor, USB keyboard and mouse
to the device. And you have a multi-user system on a single
On Wed, 2 May 2012 14:41:51 +0530, saurabh khandelwal wrote:
>If I am not wrong, it is because of using PTF for wrong version of z/OS ,
>which is not applicable.
>
BTDT. It's somewhat irritating that when this happens SMP/E
does not list the ++VER MCS appearing in the SYSMOD as an
aid to diagnos
Hi
Thank you, it was not in the selected target, but in another.
O.k now, but how can I copy an FMID from one target to another ?
On 02.05.2012 11:16, Walter Marguccio wrote:
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From: Miklos Szigetvari
GIM37903E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD UA59435 BE
- Original Message -
From: Miklos Szigetvari
> GIM37903E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD UA59435 BECAUSE IT HAS NO
> APPLICABLE ++VER MCS.
looks like the PTF has been applied in the wrong zone. Are you sure you choose
the right JES zone ?
Walter Marguccio
z/OS Systems Programme
If I am not wrong, it is because of using PTF for wrong version of z/OS ,
which is not applicable.
Please check, if UA59435 is created for the z/OS version you are using.
Regards
Saurabh
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Miklos Szigetvari <
miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I ha
Hi
I have received the UA59435 JES2 toleration PTF , but for the APPLY
check I got
GIM37903E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD UA59435 BECAUSE IT HAS NO
APPLICABLE ++VER MCS.
Maybe somebody has seen this ?
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Hi Andrew,
they are old fashioned since most customers don't need them. This is nothing
you will find in a book clearly stated but that's my truth :-). Let me try to
explain why. Most customers (I do WLM optimization - and cost
reduction-projects in Germany and Switzerland) have most of their b
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