Re: Any way to monitor Member Updates in a PDS

2011-05-26 Thread David Purdy
the drive, but some of the tracked application library datasets have thousands of updates per day. It also has a job scheduler. Your results may vary... Yes, much of this information can be done via SMF analysis. Do you want home-grown or COTS? Budget? Audit requirements? David Purdy

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-05 Thread David Purdy
tired after a couple of continuous viewing hours - 10 hour battery life - not so viewable in the sun - at the edge of being too heavy for long term viewing; I wish it was lighter, but the weight is not offensive. If you want further information, I'd be delighted to talk with you directly. David

Compromised email account

2010-10-22 Thread David Purdy
Apologies to all. My AOL account was compromised, and several listers received bogus email messages. This has been fixed. David -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread David Purdy
-Original Message- From: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com ..Data set aliases are required to be defined in the same catalog as the data set. I would swear that we had an applications manager STEPCAT during a dataset creation to a different catalog than where the alias was

OT Previously Re: jes2 parm syntax checking

2010-07-09 Thread David Purdy
One second shift operator placed his life-size Army standalone soldier cardboard cutout in the dark entry, for the enjoyment of the 6 AM folk. Woke 'em up, it did. Ultrasonic scream woke up neighborhood dogs, most likely. Happy Friday. David Purdy -Original Message- From: Elardus

Re: PROG750

2010-05-30 Thread David Purdy
From the search box on WWW.IBM.COM, four hits, two broken links. In Redbook SG24-4689 (August 1999) page 22: If you attempt to connect from PCOMM through a firewall to a CS/NT or s CS/2 gateway providing a TN2370/5250 service, you might get a PROG750 in the OIA of the session Screen. This

Re: ftping a gdg from the z box

2010-05-28 Thread David Purdy
I often placed (+1) GDGs on Win servers for PDFs, accounting data, bank deposit/transfer, payroll deduction, etc. Yes, the FTP step could have been a separate job using a (0) generation, but not mandatory. I used the correct combination of DISPs and sometimes IFs in the JCL to keep the GDG

Re: IBM 9393 RVAs Obsolete for Sure

2009-12-30 Thread David Purdy
serves. (Okay, the request could have been more precise) David Purdy -Original Message- From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 2:09 pm Subject: Re: IBM 9393 RVAs Obsolete for Sure -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

2009-11-12 Thread David Purdy
John, If you have any business intelligence products onsite, you might want to talk to those folks. I FTPd SMF data and built a Cognos cube, while defining record types as I needed them. Fairly straightforward process. And yes, record maintenance was my responsibility. I can't remember

Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot

2009-10-26 Thread David Purdy
Is that even possible for 1980 era hardware? -Not sure about parts, but in 1989 at Tektronix, we turned off supposedly the last 168 (MP of course) running west of the Mississippi. We had about a half-dozen CE's there, who wanted a picture taken with each powering down the frame. After the

Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot

2009-10-26 Thread David Purdy
Speed Matching Buffer, probably. Yup, Speed Matching Buffer is correct. 168 had timing issues with state-of-the-art 3380's (STK 8380's if I remember). Worst thing was the 168 shared DASD with a 3033 - the 168 always came in second. -Original Message- Is that even possible for 1980

Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot

2009-10-26 Thread David Purdy
more and more relevant. Sorry for the misinformation. David Purdy -Original Message- From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 2:49 pm Subject: Re: Secret Service plans IT reboot dpurd...@aol.com (David Purdy) writes: Yup, Speed

Re: Loading SMF data into a DB2 database.

2009-08-07 Thread David Purdy
No, but I generated a Cognos cube with SMF data. ?Fairly trivial task for Cognos. David Purdy -Original Message- From: Michael Wickman mwick...@waddell.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 12:44 pm Subject: Loading SMF data into a DB2 database. Does anyone try