Re: OWNER() in DEF CLUSTER

2012-05-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-21 22:41, Mark Zelden pisze: On Mon, 21 May 2012 22:29:47 +0200, R.S. wrote: I just found a job with DEFINE CLUSTER ...OWNER(...) parameter. Just curious: What is the meaning of the owner field in VSAM ? To identify the owner. :-)Didn't you RTFM? Seriously, it is an op

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Ed Gould
This brings back memories pre IBMLINK. I vaguely remember an IBM product (INFO-MVS) which was (if memory serves me) was a single (??) reel 6250 tape sent monthly by IBM. I was the one designated to load the tape into an VSAM dataset. The team was 8 (or was it 9) sysprogs and all of us disliked

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-21 Thread Ed Gould
Saving the password in an unsecure environment IN RAW TEXT. Ed On May 21, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:23:37 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: Agreed...(about screen scraping). I have run into a few over the last 40 something years. bIt is just plain a DON'T DO IT. Twi

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 21 May 2012 13:27:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Sam Knutson wrote: >My consideration is many applications in IBMLink don't seem to merit the cost >of true continuous operations. I think it is unreasonable to ask for >24/7/365(6), for all of IBMLink. As someone who has been away from th

Re: Rexx - calling assembler question

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:43:14 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 05/21/2012 at 12:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>Those generate parameter lists with a distinct CMS flavor. > >Not even close; 8 character tokenization is mickey mouse. The PLIST >has a distinct REXX flavor. ... > Well, then,

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:23:37 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >Agreed...(about screen scraping). I have run into a few over the last >40 something years. bIt is just plain a DON'T DO IT. >Twice I have been called in at something in the morning because >some IDIOT thought it was a "good" idea. Not only

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 5/21/2012 8:13 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: While it was popssible to use a card reader and printer as a console, and to use a printer as a hardcopy console, that was not something that I did except under duress, e.g., for diagnosing JES2 parameter errors. You also used this to reply

Re: Web post quoting

2012-05-21 Thread John Chase
On Sun, 20 May 2012 03:58:18 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote: >On Sun, 20 May 2012 00:44:13 -0500, John Chase wrote: > >>I don't know why the web interface to IBM-MAIN does not allow quoting the >>original post, ... > >Bottom right, two green inverted quote marks. Mouse-hover should give a >tool-tip

Re: Tape drives with magazine (autoloader) like 3592 family

2012-05-21 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Arye, IBM offers used euqiment, including tape equipment at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/used/servers.html    then select storage. The are also many other firms selling used IBM equpiment.  A Google search for used TS3400 should bring up quite a few vendors.  HTH, Linda

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-21 Thread Ed Gould
Agreed...(about screen scraping). I have run into a few over the last 40 something years. bIt is just plain a DON'T DO IT. Twice I have been called in at something in the morning because some IDIOT thought it was a "good" idea. Not only didn't they tell anybody they were buying some prod

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Actually, in 24 / 7 / 365, why are days listed twice? 24 hours a day, 365 days a year would cover it (ignoring leap day). 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year covers it a more sensible way (ignoring the extra day or two past 364 days). 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks? What hap

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-21 Thread zMan
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Longnecker, Dennis < dennis.longnec...@courts.wa.gov> wrote: > Curious as to what people might be using, if anything, on the JAVA side > for screen scraping TN3270 applications. Last year, because of performance > problems, we switched from IBM Hats to a different

Re: Rexx - calling assembler question

2012-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <6426001600524474.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on 05/21/2012 at 12:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Those generate parameter lists with a distinct CMS flavor. Not even close; 8 character tokenization is mickey mouse. The PLIST has a distinct REXX flavor. If you want to pass back variab

Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-21 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Curious as to what people might be using, if anything, on the JAVA side for screen scraping TN3270 applications. Last year, because of performance problems, we switched from IBM Hats to a different JAVA based screen scraping product four WebSphere screen scraping. Recently we ran into some ap

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/20/2012 at 12:07 PM, "McKown, John" said: >I vaguely remember having a 1403 as a "console" for NIP messages long >ago. While it was popssible to use a card reader and printer as a console, and to use a printer as a hardcopy console, that was not something that I did except under du

Re: OWNER() in DEF CLUSTER

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 21 May 2012 22:29:47 +0200, R.S. wrote: >I just found a job with DEFINE CLUSTER ...OWNER(...) parameter. > >Just curious: >What is the meaning of the owner field in VSAM ? > To identify the owner. :-)Didn't you RTFM? Seriously, it is an optional "comment" field. There is a pr

OWNER() in DEF CLUSTER

2012-05-21 Thread R.S.
I just found a job with DEFINE CLUSTER ...OWNER(...) parameter. Just curious: What is the meaning of the owner field in VSAM ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata.

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Knutson, Sam
My consideration is many applications in IBMLink don't seem to merit the cost of true continuous operations. I think it is unreasonable to ask for 24/7/365(6), for all of IBMLink. We need high availability for applications that enable us to effectively support our own high availability systems

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Bill Fairchild
This post should be saved and not read until Friday for the proper mind-set. I think the correct term should be 24/7/52.1775, as there are 52.1775 weeks in an average [1] year rather than 365, 366, or even 265. Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 3

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 May 2012 20:18:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >24/7/265? That hurts, sounds more like my tyres. I'm the last to see my own errors. Hopefully it was obvious I meant 24/7/365 (or should that be 365.24?). Clark Morris > >MARK DOUGLAS > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Ma

Re: Tape drives with magazine (autoloader) like 3592 family

2012-05-21 Thread Itschak Mugzach
used HDS devices? On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Arye Shemer wrote: > Hello forumers, > > We already tried Tapecore and we thought trying out luck here. > > I have been asked to look for tape drives with magazine or autoloader for > cartridges (like the old 3590 with ACL), > > To best of my kn

Tape drives with magazine (autoloader) like 3592 family

2012-05-21 Thread Arye Shemer
Hello forumers, We already tried Tapecore and we thought trying out luck here. I have been asked to look for tape drives with magazine or autoloader for cartridges (like the old 3590 with ACL), To best of my knowledge IBM stop marketing the IBM autoloader TS3400 (for two 3592 with 20 cartridges)

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:57:48 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >the -encoding option on javac: > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html > Ah! And even better: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html Perhaps the OP's preferred code page

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 18 May 2012 01:43:56 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: > When the 2074 control unit came along, it responded to the reset by >clearing >the screens of its terminals/consoles and displaying some kind of link >message. This makes me wonder, why does the 2074 clear the screens? Can that behavior be

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
the -encoding option on javac: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:07:49 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >Just a suggestion, but why compile your Java programs on z/OS? Much > >bet

Has anyone tried WS MQ V7.1.0 on z/OS V1R10?

2012-05-21 Thread Giliad Wilf
Reading system requirements for WebSphere MQ for z/OS versions 7.0.0, 7.0.1, and 7.1.0, I could see that the minimal level for installing versions 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 is z/OS V1R8, while the minimal level for installing version 7.1.0 is z/OS V1R11. Due to an attempt to bridge the gap over SVC issu

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:07:49 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >Just a suggestion, but why compile your Java programs on z/OS? Much >better, IMO, to use a IDE like Eclipse on your desktop and then just >"publish" the class files or jars to z/OS for execution. > I understand that internally Java uses a 16

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-21 Thread Scott Ford
John, Boy that's a blast from the past, I worked man moons ago a s/370-158..3215 m worked another place on 4381s using a 3287 as a CICS log Scott ford www.identityforge.com On May 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, "McKown, John" wrote: > I agree totally. Personally, I really __liked__ the 3215 keyboard/

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Just a suggestion, but why compile your Java programs on z/OS? Much better, IMO, to use a IDE like Eclipse on your desktop and then just "publish" the class files or jars to z/OS for execution. Also, "JZOS" actually refers to the batch launcher and toolkit for the IBM Java SDK, and not "Java on

Re: OpenSSL MAKE problem

2012-05-21 Thread Shaffer, Terri E
But here is sortof the laundry list of what I found and used with Lots of help. 1) Update the Configure perl script and add this line (after the existing OS390-Unix line, which isn't used): "OS/390","c99_x:-O -DB_ENDIAN -DCHARSET_EBCDIC -DNO_SYS_PARAM_H -D_ALL_SOURCE::(unknown):::THIRTY_TWO_BI

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread ENRIQUE ELOI MONTERO ROMERO
Hi, I found the problem, In HEX(EBCDIC 1047) the brackets are AD [ and BD ], so the ! not simbol is 5A. (In the assembler 390 ref summary guide). Then OEDIT the java program, and edit in HEX "HX" and put 5A, also added the try and catch as suggested by Michael, and the program was successfully co

Re: PSP Bucket for 2107DEVICE (DS8300)

2012-05-21 Thread Kent Ramsay
Hi, >From experience with both the DS8xxx boxes and with z/OS at various release >levels, your best bet is to put on ALL maintenance that will APPLY. If you >pick and choose, you can wind up with spotty levels of code and can leave you >with a DS8xxx that doesn't perform as it should or, worse

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

2012-05-21 Thread Charles Mills
Awesome, Peter, thank you. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 10:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean? I agree that you o

Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs

2012-05-21 Thread K Zafirop
Please correct the formula in my previous email to: The MSUS provided in a second could be: MSU_SEC = MSU_HOUR / (ENGINES * 60 * 60)* FACTOR Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

Re: PSP Bucket for 2107DEVICE (DS8300)

2012-05-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-21 11:21, Moussadak Mostafa pisze: hello to all, We plan to migrate from ESS800 disk-bay to a new DS8300. we are currently in a zOS1.7 on z10BC. I took a test in HCD, the Device Type 2107 is here ! Your HCD is aware of this device type. In fact 2107 is quite old, older than *

Re: Convert CPU time to MSUs

2012-05-21 Thread K Zafirop
Hal Merritt wrote: > SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / (ENGINES * 60 * 60) >Not quite, I think. You don't get the full 60 seconds for each additional >engine. Better: >SU_SEC = SU_HOUR / ((ENGINES * 60 * 60)*FACTOR) >Where FACTOR is less than 1.0. thank you all for your replies, Our machine type is 2097-60

PSP Bucket for 2107DEVICE (DS8300)

2012-05-21 Thread Moussadak Mostafa
hello to all, We plan to migrate from ESS800 disk-bay to a new DS8300. we are currently in a zOS1.7 on z10BC. I took a test in HCD, the Device Type 2107 is here ! Are we obliged to apply the PSP Bucket to have support of the DEVICE 2107 (DS8300) or is it already included under zOS? Thank you